A Conspiracy of Images

A Conspiracy of Images
Title A Conspiracy of Images PDF eBook
Author John J. Curley
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 298
Release 2013-12-03
Genre Art
ISBN 0300188439

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An important new look at Cold War art on both sides of the Atlantic

The Conspiracy of Art

The Conspiracy of Art
Title The Conspiracy of Art PDF eBook
Author Jean Baudrillard
Publisher Semiotext(e)
Pages 254
Release 2005-08-19
Genre Art
ISBN

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"In 1996 Jean Baudrillard scandalized the art world by denouncing a "conspiracy" of art. But most missed the point. He wasn't attacking art, because art has ceased to exist - only its claim to privilege. Spiraling from aesthetic nullity to commercial frenzy, art has entered a "transaesthetic" state. The Conspiracy of Art examines its complicitous dance with politics, economics, and media, including Abu Ghraib's reality show. Baudrillard reveals the premises of his "radical thought" in the absurdist logic of pataphysics (his first unpublished text on Alfred Jarry), and in the Theater of Cruelty (a talk on Antonin Artaud with life-long collaborator Sylvere Lotringer)."--BOOK JACKET.

The Fear of Conspiracy

The Fear of Conspiracy
Title The Fear of Conspiracy PDF eBook
Author David Brion Davis
Publisher Cornell University Press
Pages 406
Release 1971
Genre History
ISBN 9780801491139

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The Fear of Conspiracy brings together 85 speeches, documents, and writings that illustrate the role played in American history by the fear of conspiracy and subversion.

A Conspiracy of Faith

A Conspiracy of Faith
Title A Conspiracy of Faith PDF eBook
Author Jussi Adler-Olsen
Publisher Penguin
Pages 512
Release 2013
Genre Arson investigation
ISBN 0525954007

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Receiving a sealed bottle with a years-old plea for help by two young victims imprisoned in a boathouse by the sea, Detective Carl Morck follows leads to a desperate woman trapped in a brutal marriage to a man who keeps her in isolation and hides deadly secrets.

A Conspiracy So Immense

A Conspiracy So Immense
Title A Conspiracy So Immense PDF eBook
Author David M. Oshinsky
Publisher Free Press
Pages 624
Release 2019-08-20
Genre History
ISBN 1982124040

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Few politicians in our history have had the emotional impact of Joe McCarthy and acclaimed historian David Oshinsky’s chronicling of his life has been called both “nuanced” and “masterful.” Here, David Oshinsky presents us with a work heralded as the finest account available of Joe McCarthy’s colorful career. With a storyteller’s eye for the dramatic and presentation of fact, and insightful interpretation of human complexity, Oshinsky uncovers the layers of myth to show the true McCarthy. His book reveals the senator from his humble beginnings as a hardworking Irish farmer’s son in Wisconsin to his glory days as the architect of America’s Cold War crusade against domestic subversion; a man whose advice if heeded, some believe, might have halted the spread of Communism in Southeast Asia and beyond. A Conspiracy So Immense reveals the internal and external forces that launched McCarthy on this political career, carried him to national prominence, and finally triggered his decline and fall. More than the life of an intensely—even pathologically—ambitious man however, this book is a fascinating portrait of America in the grip of Cold War fear, anger, suspicion, and betrayal. Complete with a new foreword, A Conspiracy So Immense will continue to keep in the spotlight this historical figure—a man who worked so hard to prosecute “criminals” whose ideals work against that of his—for America.

Cryptoscatology

Cryptoscatology
Title Cryptoscatology PDF eBook
Author Robert Guffey
Publisher Trine Day
Pages 420
Release 2012-06-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1936296411

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Examining nearly every conspiracy theory in the public’s consciousness today, this investigation seeks to link seemingly unrelated theories through a cultural studies perspective. While looking at conspiracy theories that range from the moon landing and JFK’s assassination to the Oklahoma City bombing and Freemasonry, this reconstruction reveals newly discovered connections between wide swaths of events. Linking Dracula to George W. Bush, UFOs to strawberry ice cream, and Jesus Christ to robots from outer space, this is truly an all-original discussion of popular conspiracy theories.

Insurgent Cuba

Insurgent Cuba
Title Insurgent Cuba PDF eBook
Author Ada Ferrer
Publisher Univ of North Carolina Press
Pages 288
Release 2005-10-12
Genre History
ISBN 0807875740

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In the late nineteenth century, in an age of ascendant racism and imperial expansion, there emerged in Cuba a movement that unified black, mulatto, and white men in an attack on Europe's oldest empire, with the goal of creating a nation explicitly defined as antiracist. This book tells the story of the thirty-year unfolding and undoing of that movement. Ada Ferrer examines the participation of black and mulatto Cubans in nationalist insurgency from 1868, when a slaveholder began the revolution by freeing his slaves, until the intervention of racially segregated American forces in 1898. In so doing, she uncovers the struggles over the boundaries of citizenship and nationality that their participation brought to the fore, and she shows that even as black participation helped sustain the movement ideologically and militarily, it simultaneously prompted accusations of race war and fed the forces of counterinsurgency. Carefully examining the tensions between racism and antiracism contained within Cuban nationalism, Ferrer paints a dynamic portrait of a movement built upon the coexistence of an ideology of racial fraternity and the persistence of presumptions of hierarchy.