{"product_id":"conspiracytheory-9781478025559","title":"ConspiracyTheory","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn an era of intensified information warfare, ranging from global disinformation campaigns to individual attention hacks, what are the compelling terms for political judgment? How are we to build the knowledge needed to recognize and address important forms of harm when critical information is either not to be trusted or kept hidden? Rather than approach conspiratorial narrative as an irrational response to an obviously decipherable reality, \u003ci\u003eConspiracy\/Theory\u003c\/i\u003e identifies important affinities between conspiracy theory and critical theory. It recognizes the motivation people have—in their capacities as experts, theorists, and ordinary citizens—to search for patterns in events, to uncover what is covert and attend to dimensions of life that might be hiding in plain sight. If it seems strange that so many find themselves living in incommensurable, disorienting realities, the multidisciplinary contributors to \u003ci\u003eConspiracy\/Theory\u003c\/i\u003e explore how and why that came to be. Ac\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In a time of increasing epistemic confusion, Joseph Masco and Lisa Wedeen brilliantly complicate the usual distinction between fact-based rationality and conspiracy theory by analyzing the infiltration of official disinformation into the public sphere and by exploring the blurred line between paranoid thinking and critical theory. Their book is an innovative and crucial contribution to the understanding of the politics of uncertainty and suspicion in contemporary societies.” -- Didier Fassin, Professor at the Collège de France and the Institute for Advanced Study\u003cbr\u003e“This brilliant collection envisions conspiracy theories anew. It not only showcases distinct conspiracies across global sites and time periods, but also petitions readers to examine their own investments in conspiratorial thinking. \u003ci\u003eConspiracy\/Theory\u003c\/i\u003e is a dazzling provocation and an important intervention.” -- Elisabeth R. Anker, author of * Ugly Freedoms *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Conspiracy\/Theory \/ Joseph Masco and Lisa Weeden\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Organizing Fictions\u003cbr\u003e 1. Impasse and Genre in American Politics and Literature \/ George Shulman  37\u003cbr\u003e 2. Where Did AIDS Come from? \/ Lochlann Jain  61\u003cbr\u003e 3. A False Flag \/ Joseph Masco  81\u003cbr\u003e 4. Conspiracy Attunement and Context: The Case of the President’s Body \/ Elizabeth Anne Davis  104\u003cbr\u003e 5. Conspiracy, Theory, and the “Post-Truth” Public Sphere \/ Timothy Melley  127\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Atmospheres of Doubt\u003cbr\u003e 6. On Certainty and the Question of Judgment \/ Lisa Wedeen  149\u003cbr\u003e 7. Resonant Apophenia \/ Susan Lepselter  174\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Play of Conspiracy in Plato’s \u003ci\u003eRepublic\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Demetra Kasimis  190\u003cbr\u003e 9. An Economy of Suspicion: On the “Military-Civilian Divide” and the New American Militarism \/ Nadia Abu El-Haj  210\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The Force of Capital\u003cbr\u003e 10. Conspiracies of Theory: Of Gold in the Shadow of Deindustrialization \/ Rosalind C. Morris  235\u003cbr\u003e 11. Adrian Piper and Alien Conspiracies of Bullying and Whistleblowing \/ Joseph Dumit  264\u003cbr\u003e 12. Humanitarian Profiteering in the Central African Republic as Conspiracy and Rumor \/ Louisa Lombard  291\u003cbr\u003e 13. Confessions of an Accused Conspiracy Theorist: The Financialization of Higher Education \/ Robert Meister  314\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. The Politics of Enmity\u003cbr\u003e 14. Conspiracy and Its Curious Afterlives \/ Faith Hillis  341\u003cbr\u003e 15. Comedy of Terrors: National Security Fictions and the Origins of al-Qa‘ida \/ Darryl Li  362\u003cbr\u003e 16. After Muslims: Authority, Suspicion, and Secrecy in the Liberal Democratic State \/ Hussein Ali Agrama 386\u003cbr\u003e 17. Flame and Steel inside the Capitol \/ Kathleen Belew  409\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue \/ Joseph Masco and Lisa Wedeen  425\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  435\u003cbr\u003e References  437\u003cbr\u003e Contributors  483\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409018397015,"sku":"9781478025559","price":24.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478025559.jpg?v=1730505114","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/conspiracytheory-9781478025559","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}