Empire of Conspiracy : : The Culture of Paranoia in Postwar America / / Timothy Melley.
Why, Timothy Melley asks, have paranoia and conspiracy theory become such prominent features of postwar American culture? In Empire of Conspiracy, Melley explores the recent growth of anxieties about thought-control, assassination, political indoctrination, stalking, surveillance, and corporate and...
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Melley, Timothy, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Empire of Conspiracy : The Culture of Paranoia in Postwar America / Timothy Melley. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2016] ©2016 1 online resource (256 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION: THE CULTURE OF PARANOIA -- CHAPTER 1: BUREAUCRACY AND ITs DISCONTENTS -- CHAPTER 2: BODIES INCORPORATED -- CHAPTER 3: STALKED BY LOVE -- CHAPTER 4: SECRET AGENTS -- CHAPTER 5: THE LOGIC OF ADDICTION -- EPILOGUE: CORPORATE FUTURES -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Why, Timothy Melley asks, have paranoia and conspiracy theory become such prominent features of postwar American culture? In Empire of Conspiracy, Melley explores the recent growth of anxieties about thought-control, assassination, political indoctrination, stalking, surveillance, and corporate and government plots. At the heart of these developments, he believes, lies a widespread sense of crisis in the way Americans think about human autonomy and individuality. Nothing reveals this crisis more than the remarkably consistent form of expression that Melley calls "agency panic"-an intense fear that individuals can be shaped or controlled by powerful external forces. Drawing on a broad range of forms that manifest this fear-including fiction, film, television, sociology, political writing, self-help literature, and cultural theory-Melley provides a new understanding of the relation between postwar American literature, popular culture, and cultural theory.Empire of Conspiracy offers insightful new readings of texts ranging from Joseph Heller's Catch-22 to the Unabomber Manifesto, from Vance Packard's Hidden Persuaders to recent addiction discourse, and from the "stalker" novels of Margaret Atwood and Diane Johnson to the conspiracy fictions of Thomas Pynchon, William Burroughs, Don DeLillo, and Kathy Acker. Throughout, Melley finds recurrent anxieties about the power of large organizations to control human beings. These fears, he contends, indicate the continuing appeal of a form of individualism that is no longer wholly accurate or useful, but that still underpins a national fantasy of freedom from social control. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) American Studies. Cultural Studies. Literary Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Conspiracy Theories. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 print 9780801436680 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501713019 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501713019 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501713019/original |
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