Paranoia Within Reason: A Casebook on Conspiracy as Explanation

460 Pages·1999·27.268 MB·English

by  George E. Marcus

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PARANOIA
WITHIN REASON
A CASEBOOK ON
CONSPIRACY AS EXPLANATION
George E. Marcus, EDITOR
The University of Chicago Press
Chicago and London
George E. Marcus is professor of anthropology at Rice University. He is coauthor of
Anthropology as Cultural Critique (University of Chicago Press, 1986) and was the
inaugural editor of the journal Cultural Anthropology.
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637
The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London
© 1999 by The University of Chicago
All rights reserved. Published 1999
Printed in the United States of America
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ISBN: 0-226-50457-3 (cloth)
ISBN: 0-226-50458-1 (paper)
ISSN: 1070-8987 (for Late Editions)
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CONTENTS
Preface: A Reintroduction to the Series ix
Introduction to the Volume: The Paranoid Style Now
GEORGE E. Marcus 1
Conspiracy Theory’s Worlds
KATHLEEN STEWART 13
Paranoid, Critical, Methodical: Dali, Koolhaas, and...
JAMER HUNT 21
I. Paranoia within Reason
The Extraterritoriality of Imre Lakatos: A Conversation with
Janos Radvanyi
JOHN KADVANY 39
Entangled States: Quantum Teleportation and the “Willies”
MICHAEL FORTUN 65
The Detection and Attribution of Conspiracies: The Controversy
Over Chapter 8
MYANNA LAHSEN 111
The New Alienists: Healing Shattered Selves at Century’s End
MICHAEL F. BROWN 137
Due Diligence and the Pursuit of Transparency: The Securities
and Exchange Commission, 1996
KIM AND MICHAEL FORTUN 157
II. Paranoid Histories
The Usual Suspects
ANDREA AURELI 197
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A Toast to Fear: Ethnographic Flashes and Two Quasi-Aphorisms
Luiz E. SOARES 225
10 The Return of the Repressed: Conversations with Three Russian
Entrepreneurs
BRUCE GRANT 241
11 Udbomafija and the Rhetoric of Conspiracy
TATIANA BAJUK 269
III. Paranoid Presents
12 The Judas Kiss of Giulio Andreotti: Italy in Purgatorio
ROBIN WAGNER-PACIFICI 299
13 Tactical Thuggery: National Socialism in the East End of London
DOUGLAS R. HOLMES 319
14 Lone Gunmen: Legacies of the Gulf War, Iilness,and Unseen
Enemies
Kim FoRTUN 343
15 Deus Absconditus: Waco, Conspiracy (Theory), Millennialism,
and (the End of) the Twentieth Century
JAMES D. FAUBION 375
16 An American Theme Park: Working and Riding Out Paranoia in
the Late Twentieth Century
Scott A. Lukas 405
Contributors 429
Index 431