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... The chapter argues that there is a core affinity between conspiracy theory and critical theory. Arguing against Richard Hofstadter that there is an easy line of demarcation between the two, the introduction to Conspiracy/Theory asks how the individual can manage knowing in a world...

... There is nothing new about the sort of suspicion now commonly called “conspiracy theory,” but the idea that conspiracy theory is a special type of discourse—one that is easily recognized and dismissed as pathological—emerged during the Cold War and is entangled with the history of the security...

... unanswered questions were dismissed in advance, tossed into the same denigrated category of “misinformation” and “conspiracy theories.” Nevertheless, many laypeople—including people experiencing symptoms of long COVID—used their own experience of the pandemic, the archives of health commonsense they had...

... This chapter examines the world of informal and illegal gold mining in South Africa and reflects on the fact that conspiracy theories about gold (including its hoarding, concealment, and theft) have often relied upon gold as a figure of the real and the true at the same time as it has been...

... Critically engaging with conspiratology—that is, theory about “conspiracy theory”—this chapter takes as a case the 2009 theft of the body of Tassos Papadopoulos, the former president of Cyprus, from his grave. It traces theories and countertheories of the theft published in the Cypriot press...

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..., unclear lines of analysis, and powerful interests inflected in the subsequent discussions opens space for challenging the belief that the vaccine contamination question has been resolved. The reduction of Hooper’s oral polio vaccine (OPV) hypothesis to a “conspiracy theory” rather than a plausible...

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...The Force of Capital This chapter examines the world of informal and illegal gold mining in South Africa and reflects on the fact that conspiracy theories about gold (including its hoarding, concealment, and theft) have often relied upon gold as a figure of the real and the true at the same...

... In 2010 the author of this chapter was accused of "conspiracy theory" for exposing the University of California's (UC)'s long-term strategy to pledge revenues from higher enrollments and tuition increases for general purpose bonds to fund construction outside its core educational mission. Even...

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... This chapter describes the affects and poetics of uncanny conspiracy theory, especially UFO abduction. Drawing on ethnographic research, the chapter explores the interplay of ordinary life and consiuracy theory in the 1990s US Southwest through the trope of abduction. It explores how apophenia...

... This epilogue to Conspiracy/Theory explores the terms of epistemic crisis in the twenty-first century. Focusing specifically on the January 6, 2021, insurrection in Washington, DC, the epilogue reviews the multiple conspiratorial projects that informed that violent event. Tracking...