Acknowledgments Introduction Grassy Knolledges 1. Political Science Fiction Expert Monitors, Excessive Skepticism, and Preventive Rationality 2. Pop Goes the Profession Journalism, New Media Culture, and Populism 3. Trust No One (on the Internet) Gary Webb, Popular Technologies, and Professional Journalism 4. Left Behind AIDS, Biowarfare, and the Politics of Articulation 5. Going Global 9/11, Popular Investigations, and the Sphere of Legitimate Dissensus Conclusion Appendix: AIDS Conspiracy Theory Chart Notes References Index
Jack Z. Bratich is Assistant Professor of Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey and the coeditor (with Jeremy Packer and Cameron McCarthy) of Foucault, Cultural Studies, and Governmentality, also published by SUNY Press.
"...an important contribution to the narrow field of conspiracy studies as well as the broader cultural study of politics." - Journal of Communication Inquiry "With his concept of conspiracy panics, Bratich makes a major contribution to thinking about our complex relations to conspiracy theories, those theories that haunt and annoy us, that we want to dismiss but cannot avoid. Not only does Bratich steer a clear and confident course through conspiracy theorists and their seemingly more rational critics, but he also addresses the far more pressing question of how adherents to some ways of thinking come to be scapegoated, dismissed as crackpots, or denounced as enemies. This is a terrific book and essential reading for anyone interested in the connections between thinking and doing politics." - Jodi Dean, author of Aliens in America: Conspiracy Cultures from Outerspace to Cyberspace
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