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Paranoia as Method
May 14 (M)- Seminar: The Paranoid Style
Read:
- Hofstadter, R. (1964, Nov.). The Paranoid Style in American Politics. Harper’s Magazine (Nov.): 77-86.
- Brotherton, R. (2015). Suspicious Minds: Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories, Pp. 99-118. London: Bloomsbury.
Watch:
- Gray, R. (2017, Feb. 17). “Have Conspiracy Theories Gone Mainstream?” The Atlantic.
You may visit the supplementary material on “The Paranoid Style” covered in the lecture. It is not required.
May 16 (W)- Seminar: The Age of Anger
Read:
- Mishra, P. (2016, Dec. 8). Welcome to the age of anger. The Guardian.
- Friedman, J. (2012). “Diametric to concentric dualism: Cosmopolitan intellectuals and the re-configuration of the state.” In Contesting the State: The Dynamics of Resistance and Control, eds. A. Hobard and B. Kapferer, Pp. 261-290. Wantage: Sean Kingston.
- Campion-Vincent, V. (2005). “From Evil Others to Evil Elites: A Dominant Pattern in Conspiracy Theories Today.” In Rumor Mills: The Social Impact of Rumor and Legend, eds. G.A. Fine, et al., eds., Pp. 103-122. New Brunswick: Aldine Transaction.
You may visit the supplementary material on “The Age of Anger” covered in the lecture. It is not required.
May 18 (F)- Seminar: Paranoiac Ideologies
Read:
- Aupers, S. (2012). ‘Trust no one’: Modernization, paranoia and conspiracy culture. European Journal of Communication 27(1): 22-34.
- Hunt, J. (1999). “Paranoid, Critical, Methodological, Dalí, Koolhaas, and…” In Paranoia Within Reason: Casebook on Conspiracy as Explanation, eds. G.E. Marcus, Pp. 21-30. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
You may visit the supplementary material on “Paranoiac Ideologies” covered in the lecture. It is not required.
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