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... critical reflection. Given the prevalence of deceptions and false flag operations in a mass mediated age, the chapter calls for a reconsideration of conspiratorial thought as a necessary survival tool in contemporary life. Focusing on official US national security deceptions over the past half century...

... This chapter analyzes counterfactual strategies and practices of strategic deception through the lens of affective politics. Practices of strategic deception are common communication and behavioral practices that traverse many different settings, including the military, colonial forms of power...

... that is filled with state and corporate deceptions, attentional hacks, and complex, multifaceted forms of violence. It interrogates the role of anticipation and intuition for those who have either too much information or not enough to explain the conditions they are experiencing. It also redraws the lines...

... Chapter 3 begins by asking a deceptively simple question: why was the Caste War called the Caste War? By tracing the historical reach and geographic range of the concept-metaphor casta , it shows how the name of the war indexes Creole efforts to repurpose the historical legacy of colonialism...

... of politics. It examines narrative techniques for flattening out politics, focusing on those which work to promote affective recruitment and polarization rather than critical reflection. Given the prevalence of deceptions and false flag operations in a mass mediated age, the chapter calls...

... immigrant narratives wherein characters must navigate the riptides of cultural identity. Because identity construction in Anglo- and Latino/a America is deceptively narrow, Yunior illustrates how one must swim entirely out of them or drown between them. immigration literature Dominican American...

... The apotheosis of superficial, deceptively clear, yet ideologically complicit language, the cliché is the ultimate “usual suspect” of symptomatic or suspicious reading. This essay recounts the trials of cliché in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as a prehistory to the Marxist...

... Ratio in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1500–1700,” considers the answer to this deceptively simple question and suggests that the nature of demographic evidence reveals a series of connections across data and ideology that emerge from the early history of the transatlantic slave trade. By focusing...

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... Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Rout e debuted in 2010 and toured nationally for two years before coming to reside at the National Museum of Australia. This exhibition is not really about history; rather, it is about the archive. The deceptively simple version of this story is that it tells...