Theory Conspiracy

Cover
Endorsement
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Theory Conspiracy: An Introduction
	Notes
	Works Cited
Part 1 Background
	1 Being Catiline: Sex, Lies, and Coup D’états in the Liberal Order
		One
		Two
		Three
		Notes
		Works Cited
	2 Unsettling History: How an Egyptian Conspiracy Theory Turns Time Into Place
		Unsettling a Scandal: Dinshaway as a Metonym
		Unsettling Documentation: The Spectacle of Sources
		Unsettling the Pace: Swift Post-Revolutionary History
		Unsettling Time: Eyewitnessing a Century-Old Case
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Works Cited
	3 The Kristeva File
		Notes
		Works Cited
	4 A Portrait of Baudelaire as a Conspiracy Theorist
		Baudelaire, the Bohemian Conspirator
		Poetry and Paranoia
		Conspiracies Past and Present
		Writing Conspiracy
		Notes
		Works Cited
Part 2 Contemporary
	5 Conspiracy and Ressentiment: The Vexed Politics of the Gilets Jaunes
		Populist Politics
		Ressentiment and Identitarianism
		From the Great Replacement to the Becoming Black of the World
		Notes
		Works Cited
	6 Ugly Freedoms and Insurrectionary Conspiracies
		Conspiracy Theories and the Problem of Freedom
		January 6, Trump, and Conspiracies of American Freedom
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Works Cited
	7 Don’t Look Up, Birds Aren’t Real: Comedy and Conspiracy
		Evil Versus Stupid
		Don’t Look Up
		Birds Aren’t Real
		Notes
		Works Cited
Part 3 Critical
	8 Has Conspiracy Theory Run Out of Steam?
		Has Critique Run Out of Steam?
		Has the Critique of Critique Run Out of Steam?
		Critique of Conspiracy Theory
		Has Conspiracy Theory Run Out of Steam?
		Conspiracy Theories of Critique
		Beyond Conspiracy Theory and Critique
		Acknowledgments
		Notes
		Works Cited
	9 A Reparative Chronotope of Critique
		Critique
		The Hermeneutics of Suspicion
		Theory
		A Reparative Chronotope of Critique
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Works Cited
	10 Conspiring With Theory: Popper, Antitheory, and the Epistemology of Ignorance
		Against Historicism
		The Conspiracy Theory of Ignorance
		The Conspiracy Theory of Society
		The Conspiracy Theory of Theory
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Works Cited
	11 A Sketch of Conspiratorial Reason
		From Conspiracy Theory to Conspiratorial Reason
		Enlightenment as Revelation
		Scripting Conspiratorial Reason
		Acknowledgments
		Notes
		Works Cited
Index