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Conspiracy Panics: Political Rationality and Popular Culture

Conspiracy Panics: Political Rationality and Popular Culture

Bratich, Jack Z.

Paperback

PhilosophyAnthropologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0791473341
ISBN13: 9780791473344
Publisher: St Univ Of New York Pr
Published: Feb 7 2008
Pages: 239
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.28 Depth: 8.98
Language: English

Examines contemporary anxiety over the phenomenon of conspiracy theories.

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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