Descript |
viii, 278 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Contents |
Introduction: A nation of conspiracy theorists / Peter Knight -- Spinning paranoia: the ideologies of conspiracy and contingency in postmodern culture / Skip Willman -- A poor person's cognitive mapping / Fran Mason -- Agency panic and the culture of conspiracy / Timothy Melley -- If anything is possible / Jodi Dean -- My body is not my own: personalizing disempowerment in alien abduction narratives / Bridget Brown -- Injections and truth serums: AIDS conspiracy / Jack Bratich -- White hope: conspiracy, nationalism, and revolution in the Turner diaries and Hunter / Ingrid Walker Fields -- All eyez on me: the paranoid style of Tupac Shakur -- Douglas Kellner, The X-files and conspiracy: a diagnostic critique / Eithne Quinn -- The commodification of conspiracy theories / Clare Birchall -- Forget conspiracy: Pynchon, Delillo, and the conventional counterconspiracy narrative / John McClure. |
ISBN |
0814747361 (pbk.) |
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0814747353 |
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