This handbook examines where conspiracy theories come from, who believes in them and what their consequences are. Taking these theories as truth, Shea and Wilson wrote a novel that playfully combines a range of conspiracies – particularly around the Illuminati – in a wacky intertextual collage of countercultural mayhem, including its own religion: Discordianism. While writing my third novel, UnAmerican Activities, I watched a lot of conspiracy theory videos on YouTube.

We use cookies on this site to understand how you use our content, and to give you the best browsing experience. As the world tumbles down into a pandemic shaped rabbit-hole Ascher is wracked with guilt that her aunt was buried without the Jewish burial rights of purification. Griffin isn’t your typical conspiracy theorist with a creepy basement covered in newspaper clippings and yarn. Kriwaczk’s book is truly unique: the author claims to tell the history of a lost genre of music—the funerary violin—which was suppressed by the Catholic Church in the early 19th century, all traces of it in history and music having subsequently been destroyed. Michael Shermer (SANTA BARBARA, CA) is the publisher of Skeptic magazine, a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University, the host of the popular podcast The Michael Shermer Show, and the Skeptic Substack weekly columnist.JFK, Karl Marx, the Pope, Aristotle Onassis, Howard Hughes, Fox Mulder, Bill Clinton, both George Bushes—all have been linked to vastly complicated global (or even galactic) intrigues. Understandably, many of the essays fall back on simple description—the authors’ incredulity can be read between the lines.

Yet despite its wide range, Conspiracy Theories does not discuss the former case; meanwhile, the FBI’s actions are positioned as instigators of other conspiracy theories, but not as conspiracy theories themselves. Across history and geography, contributors inquire into the affects and imaginaries of political mobilization, tracking counterrevolutionary projects while acknowledging collective futures that demand conspiratorial engagement. Meanwhile, an ‘instrumental rationale’ is apparent in discussions of the deep state conspiracy in the Turkish parliament (Türkay Salim Nefes, 392). Merlan has been on the front lines of fringe and extremist culture as a reporter for Vice, chronicling the dark underbelly of American thought—one that has, in recent years, unfortunately come to light.I have helped shape Oxford’s annual Alice’s Day since the first one in 2007, and have participated in French, Dutch, Canadian, Brazilian and British TV and radio documentaries, most notably for BBC 2 and BBC Radio 4. Written by a cultural anthropologist with a literary background, this deeply interdisciplinary book focuses on the enduring American preoccupation with captivity in a rapidly transforming world. Rice’s work is concerned with the question of documentary and archival evidence, what makes a thing “true,” and how that proof moves through the world. If working at an office location and you are not "logged in", simply close and relaunch your preferred browser.

The project is a reading of conspiracy theory as an index of a certain strain of late 20th-century American despondency and malaise, especially as understood by people experiencing downward social mobility. Lepselter blends the genres of academic monograph and memoir in ways that make for a fascinating read. If you’re interested in understanding the 9/11 truth movement and the controversy surrounding the official narrative of the attacks, this book is a must-read.Read more about the condition Very Good: A book that has been read and does not look new, but is in excellent condition. Along the way, he delves deeper into a range of other interesting questions, examining what the evidence says about a Kennedy or 9/11 conspiracy, how to detect if conspiracy theories are likely true or false, how to talk to conspiracy theorists, and the details of the real conspiracy that ultimately gave rise to World War I. This book explores for the first time the role that conspiracy theories actually play in the network’s broadcasts.