Introduction: Conspiracy/Theory 1 -- 1 Conspiracy/Culture 23 -- 2 Plotting the Kennedy Assassination 76 -- 3 The Problem with No Name: Feminism and the Figuration of Conspiracy 117 -- 4 Fear of a Black Planet: "Black Paranoia" and the Aesthetics of Conspiracy 143 -- 5 Body Panic 168 -- 6 Everything is Connected 204
Summary
Conspiracy theories are everywhere in post-war American culture. From postmodern novels to The X-Files and from gangsta rap to feminist polemic, there is a widespread suspicion that sinister forces are conspiring to take control of our national destiny, our minds, and even our bodies. Conspiracy explanations can no longer be dismissed as the paranoid delusions of far-right crackpots. Indeed, they have become a necessary response to a risky and increasingly globalized world, in which everything is connected but nothing adds up. Peter Knight provides an engaging and cogent analysis o
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-282) and index
