Week 5: The Signal in the Noise

Jun 8 (F) Suggested Materials

  • Barthes, R. (1972). “The Structure of the Fait Divers.” In Critical Essays, Trans. R. Howard, Pp.  185-195. Evanston: Northwestern University Press.
  • Uscinski, J.E. (2017, Nov. 22). What does your conspiracy chart say about you? Vox.
  • Beauchamp, Z. (2017, Nov. 14). Behold the wonders of Rep. Louie Gohmert’s conspiracy chart. Vox
  • Adorno, T.W. (1957). The Stars Down to Earth: The Los Angeles Times Astrology Column: A Study in Secondary Superstition. Jahrbuch für Amerikastudien(Bd. 2): pp. 19-88.
  • Adorno, T.W. (2005 [1974]). “Thesis Against Occultism.” In Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life, Trans. E.F.N. Jephcott, Pp. 238-244. London: Verso.
  • Nefes, S.T. (2011). “Conspiracy Theories as Conduits of Fundamentalist Ideologies: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” In Fundamentalism in the Modern World, Vol 1: Fundamentalism, Politics and History: The State, Globalisation and Political Ideologies, eds. U. Mårtensson, et al., Pp. 219-239. London: I.B. Tauris.
  • Lévi-Strauss, C. (1969). “The Science of the Concrete.” In The Savage Mind, Pp. 1-33. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.

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