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... This chapter analyzes Richard Hofstadter’s critique of “the paranoid style” and its influential impact on the terms and tone of liberal and left engagement with the event of Donald Trump. The chapter’s claim is that Hofstadter’s argument engages a genre of criticism, originating...

... that have been leveraged to explain it, and proposes the notion of the paranoid regime to make sense of how the regime has been viciously invested in targeting all symbols or memories of the revolution. The regime has January-phobia, as he describes it. Said argues that many Egyptian revolutionaries chose...

...Organizing Fictions This chapter analyzes Richard Hofstadter’s critique of “the paranoid style” and its influential impact on the terms and tone of liberal and left engagement with the event of Donald Trump. The chapter’s claim is that Hofstadter’s argument engages a genre of criticism...

... Instead of dismissing the “paranoid style” of politics, this chapter argues for the generative power of conspiracy. It traces the actions of a circle of French and Russian activists whose scheming managed to change the course of international politics and may have also resulted in the production...

... This chapter brings the folded cosmos into dialogue with contemporary theories of surveillant information capitalism. Marks suggests an “only moderately paranoid” rejoinder to the darker theorizations of information's grip, especially where information-images are concerned. This relatively...

... This chapter takes Ian McEwan’s 1997 novel Enduring Love as an opportunity to think through some of the potentials and pitfalls involved in the current turn against “critique” and “paranoid reading.” Reading McEwan together with the writings of Bruno Latour, it demonstrates the extent to which...

... society in which secrets are the objects of insistent speculation, public understanding struggles to keep pace with technical innovation, and citizenship is increasingly organized around risk mitigation. conspiracy theory paranoid style post-truth public sphere strategic irrationalism...

... Part 4 sets the stage for the final analysis of conspiracy thinking and paranoid cast integral to fascism and fascisizing tendencies. It does this through a philosophical inquiry into error, in a form that is built into the workings of perception, as theorized by Spinoza, Susanne Langer...

... imagined as the ultimate object of dissimulation. Moving between Richard Hofstadter’s account of paranoid style and the theatrical efforts made by precarious scavengers of precious metals to access both value and the power of the state, the chapter reflects on the analytical operations by which resemblance...

...The Politics of Enmity Instead of dismissing the “paranoid style” of politics, this chapter argues for the generative power of conspiracy. It traces the actions of a circle of French and Russian activists whose scheming managed to change the course of international politics and may have also...

... time as it has been imagined as the ultimate object of dissimulation. Moving between Richard Hofstadter’s account of paranoid style and the theatrical efforts made by precarious scavengers of precious metals to access both value and the power of the state, the chapter reflects on the analytical...