Conspiracy Panics: Political Rationality and Popular CultureState University of New York Press, 2008 M02 7 - 239 páginas While most other works focus on conspiracy theories, this book examines conspiracy panics, or the anxiety over the phenomenon of conspiracy theories. Jack Z. Bratich argues that conspiracy theories are portals into the major social issues defining U.S. and global political culture. These issues include the rise of new technologies, the social function of journalism, U.S. race relations, citizenship and dissent, globalization, biowarfare and biomedicine, and the shifting positions within the Left. Using a Foucauldian governmentality analysis, Bratich maintains that conspiracy panics contribute to a broader political rationality, a (neo)liberal strategy of governing at a distance through the use of reason. He also explores the growing popularity of 9/11 conspiracy research in terms of what he calls the "sphere of legitimate dissensus." Conspiracy Panics concludes that we are witnessing a new fusion of culture and rationality, one that is increasingly shared across the political spectrum. |
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... analysis , this one somehow escapes the linguistic turn , circulating in a world where language simply refers to already existing objects . But let us not deceive ourselves in thinking that calling something a conspiracy theory is ...
... analysis , this one somehow escapes the linguistic turn , circulating in a world where language simply refers to already existing objects . But let us not deceive ourselves in thinking that calling something a conspiracy theory is ...
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... analyses, I examine the latter: its discursive position. In other words, the question is no longer What is a conspiracy theory? but What counts as a conspiracy theory? To make this clearer, it is helpful to lay out some synonyms that ...
... analyses, I examine the latter: its discursive position. In other words, the question is no longer What is a conspiracy theory? but What counts as a conspiracy theory? To make this clearer, it is helpful to lay out some synonyms that ...
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... analyses based on a notion of risk society ( Ungar , 2001 ) . Others have re- sponded that trumping the moral panic ... analysis difficult to find in risk society frameworks , since the former “ examines the cultural production of risk ...
... analyses based on a notion of risk society ( Ungar , 2001 ) . Others have re- sponded that trumping the moral panic ... analysis difficult to find in risk society frameworks , since the former “ examines the cultural production of risk ...
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... analysis of society based on contradiction (the classic Marxist framework), Gilles Deleuze posits that “what is primary in a society are the lines, the movements of flights,” “its points of deterritorialization” (Deleuze, 1990a, p. 171 ...
... analysis of society based on contradiction (the classic Marxist framework), Gilles Deleuze posits that “what is primary in a society are the lines, the movements of flights,” “its points of deterritorialization” (Deleuze, 1990a, p. 171 ...
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... analysis , society is defined by the effort to constitute itself as identity by erasing antagonism . Antagonism must be sent to flee : “ every ' society ' constitutes its own forms of rationality and intelligibility by dividing itself ...
... analysis , society is defined by the effort to constitute itself as identity by erasing antagonism . Antagonism must be sent to flee : “ every ' society ' constitutes its own forms of rationality and intelligibility by dividing itself ...
Contenido
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Expert Monitors Excessive Skepticismand Preventive Rationality | 25 |
Journalism New Media Culture and Populism | 51 |
Gary Webb Popular Technologiesand Professional Journalism | 79 |
AIDS Biowarfare and the Politics of Articulation | 97 |
911 Popular Investigations and the Sphere of Legitimate Dissensus | 123 |
CONCLUSION | 159 |
APPENDIX | 171 |
NOTES | 175 |
REFERENCES | 189 |
INDEX | 219 |
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Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 4 - Each society has its regime of truth, its 'general politics' of truth: that is, the types of discourse which it accepts and makes function as true; the mechanisms and instances which enable one to distinguish true and false statements, the means by which each is sanctioned; the techniques and procedures accorded value in the acquisition of truth; the status of those who are charged with saying what counts as true.
Página 7 - ... a whole set of knowledges that have been disqualified as inadequate to their task or insufficiently elaborated: naive knowledges, located low down on the hierarchy, beneath the required level of cognition or scientificity.
Página 61 - The sense of conspiracy and secret scheming which transpire is almost uncanny. "Big Business," and its ruthless tentacles, have become the material for the feverish fantasy of illiterate thousands thrown out of kilter by the rack and strain of modern life.
Página 26 - This means that we want to see what lies behind agitators, administrators, theorists, and other types who play on the public stage.
Página 27 - The problem of politics is less to solve conflicts than to prevent them...
Página 32 - The distinguishing thing about the paranoid style is not that its exponents see conspiracies or plots here and there in history, but that they regard a "vast" or "gigantic" conspiracy as the motive force in historical events. History is a conspiracy, set in motion by demonic forces of almost transcendent power, and what is felt to be needed to defeat it is not the usual methods of political give-and-take, but an all-out crusade.
Página 1 - April 19, 1995, the country was shocked and saddened by the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City and the resulting loss of life.
Página 38 - The simulacrum is not a degraded copy. It harbors a positive power which denies the original and the copy, the model and the reproduction.
Página 47 - designed to be read, learned, reflected upon, and tested out." They were "functional devices that would enable individuals to question their own conduct, to watch over and give shape to it, and to shape themselves as ethical subjects."43 The key phrase is "shape themselves.
Página 106 - WITHIN THE NEXT 5 TO 10 YEARS, IT WOULD PROBABLY BE POSSIBLE TO MAKE A NEW INFECTIVE MICROORGANISM WHICH COULD DIFFER IN CERTAIN IMPORTANT ASPECTS FROM ANY KNOWN DISEASE-CAUSING ORGANISMS. MOST IMPORTANT OF THESE IS THAT IT MIGHT BE REFRACTORY TO THE IMMUNOLOGICAL AND THERAPEUTIC PROCESSES UPON WHICH WE DEPEND TO MAINTAIN OUR RELATIVE FREEDOM FROM INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
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Contemporary Anarchist Studies: An Introductory Anthology of Anarchy in the ... Randall Amster Sin vista previa disponible - 2009 |