Conspiracy Culture

Conspiracy Culture
Author: Dr Peter Knight
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1135117314

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.

Conspiracy Files

Conspiracy Files
Author: David Southwell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2007
Genre: Common fallacies
ISBN: 9781741787924

"From classic conspiracies such as who shot JFK to the cutting edge of primetime speculation, including 9/11 and the death of Diana, Conspiracy Files is an in-depth guide to the grassy knolls and smoky backrooms of a world you were never meant to know existed"--Backcover.

The Conspiracy Files

The Conspiracy Files
Author: Martin Harry Greenberg
Publisher: D A W Books, Incorporated
Total 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.

Awful Archives

Awful Archives
Author: Jenny Rice
Publisher:
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2020-04-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780814214350

An exploration of exaggerated cases of conspiracy theories which helps to reveal why traditional modes of argument fail against unwarranted, unsound, or untrue evidence.

Conspiracy

Conspiracy
Author: Charlotte Greig
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2006-03-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1848581416

22 November 1963: Dallas, Texas. US President John F Kennedy is assassinated as his motorcade passes through the city's streets. The assassin is soon captured, and revealed to be disaffected Communist sympathizer Lee Harvey Oswald. Did Oswald act alone, or did he have help? Is the Bilderberg Group simply a group of international financiers concerned with promoting democracy throughout the world, or is there a more sinister power at work? And what really happened to Princess Diana's Mercedes one warm August nigh in a Paris underpass? Conspiracy looks at a range of the most interesting theories of this nature, from the risibly far-fetched, such as the belief that the world is run by the lizard people, to the only-too-true and tragic such as the overthrow and murder of Chilean President Salvador Allende.

American Conspiracy Files

American Conspiracy Files
Author: Peter Kross
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Total Pages: 464
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.

The Government UFO Files

The Government UFO Files
Author: Kevin D Randle
Publisher: Visible Ink Press
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2014-04-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1578594987

Secrets and Suppressed Evidence. Hidden plots, cover-ups, and misleading statements. Coincidences or Lies? Sifting through hundreds of historical and government documents, interviewing multitudes of participants, and tracking countless leads, a former army officer, trained as an intelligence officer, presents a case for government incompetence and, potentially, malfeasance. Shining a harsh light on the government and its secrets, The Government UFO Files: The Conspiracy of Cover-Up investigates what the government knows about encounters with UFOs, alien life, and mysterious activities. The government has long collected information and assembled files on unidentified objects, extraterrestrial encounters, and strange convergences in the skies, but with new government secrets constantly being revealed (including finally admitting the existence of Area 51) is it too much to believe that it is hiding important information on close encounters, UFOs, and alien life? Combing FBI, FAA, and other government files, this revealing book thoroughly examined nearly 100 sightings and other occurrences, including ... Alien abductions and encounters Foo Fighters Silver Disks, Ghost Rockets, and Fireballs The SETI search for extraterrestrial life And much, much more The Government UFO Files sorts through the information, sources, and it lets you decide whether the government is being deliberately misleading or whether the conspiracy theories have gotten out of control.

X-Files Vol. 3: Conspiracy Theory, The Truth, Secrets & Lies

X-Files Vol. 3: Conspiracy Theory, The Truth, Secrets & Lies
Author: Titan
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-06-07
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1782763732

Reopen The X-Files with this definitive new collection. Celebrating the iconic show of the '90s - which returned to TV screens in a new six-part mini-series in January 2016 - this indispensable volume collects together cast and crew interviews, in-depth features and behind the scenes pictures and secrets, making it an essential read for X-Philes old and new.

Conspiracy Files

Conspiracy Files
Author: David Southwell
Publisher: Carlton Publishing Group
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2002-10-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781858688527

From Mulder's and Scully's "X-Files" to reports by respected commentators, "The Conspiracy Files" offers a well-researched yet entertaining investigation of the most famous cover-ups, mysterious cases, shadowy figures, and political assassinations.

The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7

The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7
Author: David Ray Griffin
Publisher: Interlink Publishing
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2012-12-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 162371026X

At 5:20 in the afternoon on 9/11, Building 7 of the World Trade Center collapsed, even though it had not been struck by a plane and had fires on only a few floors. The reason for its collapse was considered a mystery. In August 2008, NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology) issued its report on WTC 7, declaring that "the reason for the collapse of World Trade Center 7 is no longer a mystery" and that “science is really behind what we have said.” Showing that neither of these claims is true, David Ray Griffin demonstrates that NIST is guilty of the most serious types of scientific fraud: fabricating, falsifying, and ignoring evidence. He also shows that NIST’s report left intact the central mystery: How could a building damaged by fire—not explosives—have come down in free fall?