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The Paranoid Apocalypse
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Author : Richard Landes
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2012
The Paranoid Apocalypse written by Richard Landes and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.
This text re-examines 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion's' popularity, investigating why it has persisted, as well as larger questions about the success of conspiracy theories even in the face of claims that they are blatantly counterfactual and irrational.
The Paranoid Vision
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Author : Mark Dillof
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-03
The Paranoid Vision written by Mark Dillof and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03 with Psychology categories.
Unlike clinical paranoia, the paranoid vision is contagious; it can infect an organization and even an entire society. It hatches the disturbing conspiracy theories and apocalyptic fantasies that drive the thinking of cult members, political fanatics, terrorists and genocidal murderers. No outlook on life is more malevolent, nor more dangerous. Might it hold the key to understanding human evil? Mark Dillof explores the paranoid vision from a variety of perspectives. He even contrasts it to the comic vision. Finally, he contends that paranoids may be right: there really does exist a conspiracy; it’s to keep us ignorant of who we are and what life is all about.
Ideas Of Apocalypse And Conspiracy Theory In Contemporary Cinema
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Author : Lea Weller
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2013-11-12
Ideas Of Apocalypse And Conspiracy Theory In Contemporary Cinema written by Lea Weller and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-12 with Social Science categories.
Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Sociology - Media, Art, Music, grade: A, University of Derby, course: BA in Sociology and Film and Television Studies, language: English, abstract: The definition of apocalypse described by Burgess and Nur (2008) is “The battle at the end of the world, as described in the Book of Revelation in the Bible. Sometimes also used to describe any religiously charged major societal upheaval” (Burgess and Nur, 2008). This essay will investigate this definition and see if it fits contemporary beliefs. Ideas of the apocalypse have fascinated the public throughout history. Every society has different ideas or predictions about a global cataclysm that will end the world. The end was once interpreted as a supernatural event in which the Earth would be purified by a Deity or divine God. Scientific beliefs about a natural cataclysmic event that will end the world compete with religious theories. During the investigation of Roland Emmerich’s film of 2009, 2012, Solar flares, pole shifts, Earth crust displacement, the Rapture, the Mayan Calendar, the Hopis all give detailed accounts of how the Earth will be destroyed. 2012 shows the conflicting ideas of contemporary society; and this essay will show the various theories and how they act as a guide for surviving the end of the world. The theme of conspiracy theory is also extremely evident throughout society today and these theories are exposed in 2012.
The Paranoid Vision
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Author : Mark Dillof
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
The Paranoid Vision written by Mark Dillof and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with categories.
This is a study of paranoia, not as a psychological malady, but as a way of seeing, or worldview. the author begins by distinguishing the paranoid vision from paranoia in the clinical sense, and from what the historian Richard Hofstadter called "the paranoid style." He then argues that there is a particular type of malevolent behavior that occurs in certain organizations, which is due to the members of those organizations falling under the sway of the paranoid vision. In Part I of the dissertation, the author examines the narratives of the paranoid vision. These include conspiracy theories and apocalyptic fantasies. He argues that the purpose of these narratives is twofold. They seek to explain the world, in the philosophical sense, such that it is rendered intelligible. Secondly, they seek to justify human suffering such that it is rendered meaningful. Part II of this dissertation consists of four case examples. Three are of organizations that became infused by the paranoid vision: Freud's inner circle, Bhagwan Rajneesh's commune, the Khmer Rouge, and one of a fanatical ideology, radical Islam, embraced by a number of organizations that have fallen under the sway of the paranoid vision. Part III, "Beyond the Paranoid Vision," consists of two chapters, the first of which is entitled, "Paranoia in a New Key." In this chapter, the author considers whether it may be the case that the usual sort of conspiracy theories, apocalyptic fantasies, and delusions of grandeur may be inadequate representations of fundamental truths about life. the author considers whether, for example, there is an "inner apocalypse" and a "cosmic conspiracy" that are being distorted by the usual paranoid narratives. Then, in a chapter entitled, "From Paranoid Vision to Comic Vision," the author contends that the paranoid vision is the antithesis of the comic vision, and explores what it would require for the members of an organization to shift from the one to the other way of seeing.
The Paranoid Style In American Politics
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Author : Richard Hofstadter
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2008-06-10
The Paranoid Style In American Politics written by Richard Hofstadter and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-10 with Political Science categories.
This timely reissue of Richard Hofstadter's classic work on the fringe groups that influence American electoral politics offers an invaluable perspective on contemporary domestic affairs.In The Paranoid Style in American Politics, acclaimed historian Richard Hofstadter examines the competing forces in American political discourse and how fringe groups can influence — and derail — the larger agendas of a political party. He investigates the politics of the irrational, shedding light on how the behavior of individuals can seem out of proportion with actual political issues, and how such behavior impacts larger groups. With such other classic essays as “Free Silver and the Mind of 'Coin' Harvey” and “What Happened to the Antitrust Movement?, ” The Paranoid Style in American Politics remains both a seminal text of political history and a vital analysis of the ways in which political groups function in the United States.
Plots Against Russia
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Author : Eliot Borenstein
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2019-04-15
Plots Against Russia written by Eliot Borenstein and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this original and timely assessment of cultural expressions of paranoia in contemporary Russia, Eliot Borenstein samples popular fiction, movies, television shows, public political pronouncements, internet discussions, blogs, and religious tracts to build a sense of the deep historical and cultural roots of konspirologiia that run through Russian life. Plots against Russia reveals through dramatic and exciting storytelling that conspiracy and melodrama are entirely equal-opportunity in modern Russia, manifesting themselves among both pro-Putin elites and his political opposition. As Borenstein shows, this paranoid fantasy until recently characterized only the marginal and the irrelevant. Now, through its embodiment in pop culture, the expressions of a conspiratorial worldview are seen everywhere. Plots against Russia is an important contribution to the fields of Russian literary and cultural studies from one of its preeminent voices.
A Culture Of Conspiracy
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Author : Michael Barkun
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2003
A Culture Of Conspiracy written by Michael Barkun and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Unravelling the genealogies and permutations of conspiracist worldviews, this work shows how this web of urban legends has spread among sub-cultures on the Internet and through mass media, and how this phenomenon relates to larger changes in American culture.
Paradigms Of Paranoia
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Author : Samuel Chase Coale
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Paradigms Of Paranoia written by Samuel Chase Coale and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with categories.
American Literature And The Long Downturn
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Author : Dan Sinykin
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-02-20
American Literature And The Long Downturn written by Dan Sinykin and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
Apocalypse shapes the experience of millions of Americans. Not because they face imminent cataclysm, however true this is, but because apocalypse is a story they tell themselves. It offers a way out of an otherwise irredeemably unjust world. Adherence to it obscures that it is a story, rather than a description of reality. And it is old. Since its origins among Jewish writers in the first centuries BCE, apocalypse has recurred as a tempting and available form through which to express a sense of hopelessness. Why has it appeared with such force in the US now? What does it mean? This book argues that to find the meaning of our apocalyptic times we need to look at the economics of the last five decades, from the end of the postwar boom. After historian Robert Brenner, this volume calls this period the long downturn. Though it might seem abstract, the economics of the long downturn worked its way into the most intimate experiences of everyday life, including the fear that there would be no tomorrow, and this fear takes the form of 'neoliberal apocalypse'. The varieties of neoliberal apocalypse—horror at the nation's commitment to a racist, exclusionary economic system; resentment about threats to white supremacy; apprehension that the nation has unleashed a violence that will consume it; claustrophobia within the limited scripts of neoliberalism; suffocation under the weight of debt—together form the discordant chord that hums under American life in the twenty-first century. For many of us, for different reasons, it feels like the end is coming soon and this book explores how we came to this, and what it has meant for literature.
Notes From An Apocalypse
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Author : Mark O'Connell
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2020-03-19
Notes From An Apocalypse written by Mark O'Connell and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-19 with Social Science categories.
'The Book of Revelation with a Bill Bryson touch... At least you'll die laughing' Sunday Telegraph **NOW UPDATED TO INCLUDE THE LATEST APOCALYPSE** Of late, Mark O'Connell has found himself particularly anxious about the end of the world. As things fall apart around him, he sets out to meet the people preparing to survive: environmentalists meditating in remote Scottish forests, billionaires dreaming of life on Mars or a villa in New Zealand, and conspiracy theorists yearning for a lost American idyll. Journeying with him through this landscape of anxiety, we learn just what it takes to make it to the other side.