Anth 475 (R) Anthropology of Conspiracy Theory
Watch:
- Vice. (2017, May 24). “Meet the Targeted Individual Community.” Vice.
- Vice. (2017, Nov. 7). “The Nightmare World of Gang Stalking.” Vice.
Suggested:
- Imhoff, R. and P.K. Lamberty. (2017). Too special to be duped: Need for uniqueness motivates conspiracy beliefs. European Journal of Social Psychology 47(6): 724-734.
- Lantian, A. (2017). “I Know Things They Don’t Know!” The Role of Need for Uniqueness in Belief in Conspiracy Theories. Social Psychology (48): 160-173.
- Mills, J. (2003). Lacan on Paranoiac Knowledge. Psychoanalytic Psychology 20(1): 30-51.
- Melley, M. (2002). “Agency Panic and the Culture of Conspiracy.” In Conspiracy Nation: The Politics of Paranoia in Postwar America, eds. P. Knight, Pp. 57-81. New York: New York University Press.
- Ngai, S. (2005). Ugly Feelings, Pp. 298-331. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
- Harding, S. and K. Stewart. (2002). “Anxieties of Influence: Conspiracy Theory and Therapeutic Culture in Millennial America.” In Transparency and Conspiracy: Ethnographies of Suspicion in the New World Order, eds. H.G. West and T. Sanders, Pp. 258-286. Durham: Duke University Press.
- Sedgwick, E.K. (1997). “Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading; or, You’re So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Introduction Is about You.” In Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction, ed. E.K. Sedgwick, Pp. 1-37. Durham: Duke University Press.