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Theory Conspiracy
Frida Beckman, Jeffrey R. Di Leo
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R1,176
Discovery Miles 11 760
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Explores the intersection of conspiracy theory and
theory-as-conspiracy. Theory conspiracy is approached from a number
of different critical perspectives. The volume consists of
contributions from contemporary theorists who have published
extensively on questions of paranoia, conspiracy theory and/or the
state of theory today.
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Theory Conspiracy
Frida Beckman, Jeffrey R. Di Leo
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R4,129
Discovery Miles 41 290
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Explores the intersection of conspiracy theory and
theory-as-conspiracy. Theory conspiracy is approached from a number
of different critical perspectives. The volume consists of
contributions from contemporary theorists who have published
extensively on questions of paranoia, conspiracy theory and/or the
state of theory today.
Why does it seem like our everyday life is shadowed by something
menacing? This book identifies and illuminates paranoia as a
significant feature of contemporary American society and culture.
Centering on what it identifies as three key dimensions - power,
truth, and identity - in three different contexts - society,
literature, and critique - the book explores and explains the
increasing influence of paranoid thinking in American society
during the second half of the twentieth century and first decades
of the twenty-first, a period that has seen the rise of control
systems and neoliberal ascendency. Inquiring about the predominance
of white, male, American subjects in paranoid culture, Frida
Beckman recognizes the antagonistic maintenance and fortification
of a conception of the autonomous individual that perceives itself
to be under threat. Identifying such paranoia as emerging from an
increasingly disjunctive relation between this conception of the
subject and the changing nature of the public sphere, she develops
the concept of the paranoid chronotope as a tool for the
theoretical analysis of social, literary, and critical practices
today. Investigating twenty-first century paranoid fictions, New
Sincerity novels, conspiracist online culture, and postcritique,
Beckman shows how the paranoid chronotope constitutes a recurring
feature of modern consciousness.
Starting from Deleuze's brief but influential work on control, the
11 essays in this book focus on the question of how contemporary
control mechanisms influence, and are influenced by, cultural
expression. They also collectively revaluate Foucault and Deleuze's
theories of discipline and control in light of the continued
development of biopolitics. Written by an impressive line-up of
contemporary scholars of philosophy, politics and culture the
essays cover the particularity of control in relation to various
fields and modes of expression including literature, cinema,
television, music and philosophy.
Why does it seem like our everyday life is shadowed by something
menacing? This book identifies and illuminates paranoia as a
significant feature of contemporary American society and culture.
Centering on what it identifies as three key dimensions - power,
truth, and identity - in three different contexts - society,
literature, and critique - the book explores and explains the
increasing influence of paranoid thinking in American society
during the second half of the twentieth century and first decades
of the twenty-first, a period that has seen the rise of control
systems and neoliberal ascendency. Inquiring about the predominance
of white, male, American subjects in paranoid culture, Frida
Beckman recognizes the antagonistic maintenance and fortification
of a conception of the autonomous individual that perceives itself
to be under threat. Identifying such paranoia as emerging from an
increasingly disjunctive relation between this conception of the
subject and the changing nature of the public sphere, she develops
the concept of the paranoid chronotope as a tool for the
theoretical analysis of social, literary, and critical practices
today. Investigating twenty-first century paranoid fictions, New
Sincerity novels, conspiracist online culture, and postcritique,
Beckman shows how the paranoid chronotope constitutes a recurring
feature of modern consciousness.
Gilles Deleuze, the person and philosopher, was both singular and
multifaceted. Frida Beckman traces Deleuze's remarkable
intellectual journey, mapping the encounters from which his life
and work emerged. She considers how his life and philosophical
developments resonate with historical, political and philosophical
events, from the Second World War to the student uprisings in the
1960s, the opening of the experimental University of Paris VIII and
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Although less of a public figure
than many of his contemporaries, Deleuze's life and philosophy are
bound up with his numerous friendships, collaborations and disputes
with several of the period's most influential thinkers, as well as
his connections with writers, artists and film scholars. Beckman
considers the events, moods and intensities that were generated by
this multiplicity of encounters throughout his life. The book
follows Deleuze from the salons to which he was invited as a young
student through his popularity as a young teacher to the
development of the rich phases of his philosophical work.While
resisting the idea of 'Deleuzians', the book also reviews a
post-Deleuzian legacy and the influence of this extraordinary
thinker on contemporary philosophy.
Maps out how new developments in 21st-century philosophy intersect
with the study of literature This forward-thinking, non-traditional
reference work uniquely maps out how new developments in 21st
century philosophy are entering into dialogue with the study of
literature. Going beyond the familiar methods of analytic
philosophy, and with a breadth greater than traditional literary
theory, this collection looks at the profound consequences of the
interaction between philosophy and literature for questions of
ethics, politics, subjectivity, materiality, reality and the nature
of the contemporary itself.
Starting from Deleuze's brief but influential work on control, the
11 essays in this book focus on the question of how contemporary
control mechanisms influence, and are influenced by, cultural
expression. They also collectively revaluate Foucault and Deleuze's
theories of discipline and control in light of the continued
development of biopolitics. Written by an impressive line-up of
contemporary scholars of philosophy, politics and culture the
essays cover the particularity of control in relation to various
fields and modes of expression including literature, cinema,
television, music and philosophy.
Exploring central aspects of the role of sexuality in Deleuze's
philosophy For Deleuze, sexuality is a force that can capture as
well as liberate life. Its flows tend to be repressed and contained
in specific forms at the same time as they retain revolutionary
potential. There is immense power in the thousand sexes of
desiring-machines and sexuality is seen as a source of becoming.
This book gathers prominent Deleuze scholars to explore the
restricting and liberating forces of sexuality in relation to a
spread of central themes in Deleuze's philosophy, including
politics, psychoanalysis, and friendship as well as specific topics
such as the body-machine, disability, feminism, and erotics. Key
features * the first and only book-length study on sex in Deleuze
When "revolution" becomes a recurring theme in mainstream culture,
where do we look for the tools for a critical engagement with the
present? Addressing the link between allegory and cultural critique
in contemporary culture and resisting the thematic abstraction of
sexy, fast, revolutionary content, this book suggests that one way
is to pay attention not so much to content as to form. Culture
Control Critique provides an analysis of how representations of
political systems in contemporary mainstream culture may be
understood not so much by looking at their apparent critical
message but by shifting our critical gaze to an underlying and
recurring political logic that controls the desire for political
change.
When "revolution" becomes a recurring theme in mainstream culture,
where do we look for the tools for a critical engagement with the
present? Addressing the link between allegory and cultural critique
in contemporary culture and resisting the thematic abstraction of
sexy, fast, revolutionary content, this book suggests that one way
is to pay attention not so much to content as to form. Culture
Control Critique provides an analysis of how representations of
political systems in contemporary mainstream culture may be
understood not so much by looking at their apparent critical
message but by shifting our critical gaze to an underlying and
recurring political logic that controls the desire for political
change.
Exploring central aspects of the role of sexuality in Deleuze's
philosophy For Deleuze, sexuality is a force that can capture as
well as liberate life. Its flows tend to be repressed and contained
in specific forms at the same time as they retain revolutionary
potential. There is immense power in the thousand sexes of
desiring-machines and sexuality is seen as a source of becoming.
This book gathers prominent Deleuze scholars to explore the
restricting and liberating forces of sexuality in relation to a
spread of central themes in Deleuze's philosophy, including
politics, psychoanalysis, and friendship as well as specific topics
such as the body-machine, disability, feminism, and erotics. Key
features * the first and only book-length study on sex in Deleuze
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