Conspiracy Culture
Title | Conspiracy Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Dr Peter Knight |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 301 |
Release | 2013-04-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1135117233 |
Conspiracy theories are everywhere in post-war American culture. From postmodern novels to The X-Files and from gangsta rap to feminist polemic, there is a widespread suspicion that sinister forces are conspiring to take control of our national destiny, our minds, and even our bodies. Conspiracy explanations can no longer be dismissed as the paranoid delusions of far-right crackpots. Indeed, they have become a necessary response to a risky and increasingly globalized world, in which everything is connected but nothing adds up. Peter Knight provides an engaging and cogent analysis of the development of conspiracy culture, from 1960s' countercultural suspicions about the authorities to the 1990s, where a paranoid attitude is both routine and ironic. Conspiracy Culture analyses conspiracy narratives about familiar topics like the Kennedy assassination, alien abduction, body horror, AIDS, crack cocaine, the New World Order, as well as more unusual ones like the conspiracies of patriarchy and white supremacy. Conspiracy Culture shows how Americans have come to distrust not only the narratives of the authorities, but even the authority of narrative itself to explain What Is Really Going On. From the complexities of Thomas Pynchon's novels to the endless mysteries of The X-Files, Knight argues that contemporary conspiracy culture is marked by an infinite regress of suspicion. Trust no one, because we have met the enemy and it is us.
American Conspiracy Files
Title | American Conspiracy Files PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Kross |
Publisher | SCB Distributors |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 2015-11-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1939149614 |
Conspiracy theories are not new to our modern time. They date back to biblical times when Moses sent his spies out to check out what the Egyptians were doing. Espionage is also linked to various conspiracies and is all mixed up in the same bag of tricks and form any decent conspiracy or theory. In this new, fact providing book by author Peter Kross called The American Conspiracy Files: The Stories We Were Never Told, the reader is given a tour de force through the world of conspiracies and conspiracy theories dating back to the time when this nation was first founded, right up until the modern day. Author Kross provides the reader with these fascinating and unbelievable stories in short, thought-provoking chapters that will both inform and educate the public to these little known tales from our past. Among the stories that are revealed are the circumstances surrounding the Lost Colony of Roanoke whose settlers simply left their homes and were never seen again. The tales of the deaths of Davy Crockett, Jesse James and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid leave the reader wondering just what really happened to these iconic heroes, conspiracies in the Revolutionary War including Benedict Arnold and Ben Franklin’s son, William. We delve into the large conspiracy to kill President Lincoln and see that John Wilkes Booth did not act alone. Our tale then goes into our modern day with chapters on the deaths of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, spies in the Roosevelt administration, the reasons behind the Oklahoma City bombing, the sordid plots of President Lyndon Johnson and the deaths of people associated with him, the revelation of “Deep Throat,” a plot by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to invade Cuba and blame it on Castro, among other interesting tales. As author Kross did in his previous books, Tales From Langley: The CIA from Truman to Obama and The Secret History of the United States, these stories are a fascinating account of our hidden history, most of which the public has never heard of.
Conspiracy Files
Title | Conspiracy Files PDF eBook |
Author | David Southwell |
Publisher | Gramercy |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780517224465 |
Brace yourself for 100 of the strangest, most persistent, and bizarre conspiracy theories you will ever read. These are eerie stories concerning tragedies such as Pearl Harbor and SARS, and dark machinations surrounding the deaths of cultural icons such as JFK, Marilyn Monroe, and Princess Diana. Discover compelling theories about Stonehenge and Roswell, and spine-tingling speculations about the Mafia and Pentagon. All the details of the conspiracies are based on solid facts--here, in full are the conspiracies you thought you knew about. -Fully illustrated with over 184 color and black and white photographs -Features up-to-date stories, many of which have never before appeared in print -Thoroughly researched information with authoritative arguments and evidence -Contains a complete guide to the most commonly suspected conspirators and a glossary of conspiracy-speak
Conspiracy Files
Title | Conspiracy Files PDF eBook |
Author | David Southwell |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Common fallacies |
ISBN |
The Conspiracy Files
Title | The Conspiracy Files PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Harry Greenberg |
Publisher | D A W Books, Incorporated |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780886777975 |
Clandestine government agencies, "black ops" groups, paramilitary organizations, Masonic lodges, fringe cults, infiltrators from alien lands, and perhaps alien dimensions, and their conspiracies and cover ups are the subjects of the fascinating stories included in this volume. Contributors include Doug Clegg, Tom Monteleone, Ed Gorman, Christopher Golden, Norman Partridge, and Yvonne Navarro.
Conspiracy Files
Title | Conspiracy Files PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Harry Greenberg |
Publisher | Turtleback |
Pages | 285 |
Release | 1998-01-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780606157803 |
Gathers stories exposing clandestine governmental agencies, secret publishing empires, fringe cults, and infiltrators from alien lands by such authors as Nancy Holder, Peter Crowther, Daniel Ransom, and Thomas Monteleone
Top Secret Government Archives
Title | Top Secret Government Archives PDF eBook |
Author | Nick Redfern |
Publisher | The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2014-12-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1477781544 |
This compelling volume tackles the topic of the classified files that government agencies choose not to release under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act. Many of these documents supposedly cannot be found or are Top Secret files that the agencies admit exist but that they have decided to keep the public from seeing. The reason for the "missing" files is to stop the truth about some of the world's greatest conspiracies from ever becoming known, such as the Roswell UFO crash, the JFK assassination, Project MKUltra (the CIA's mind control operation), and a secret U.S. base on the moon.