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Counterfeit politics : secret plots and conspiracy narratives in the Americas /
In Counterfeit Politics, David Kelman reassesses the political significance of conspiracy theory. Traditionally, political theory has sought to banish the "paranoid style" from the "proper" domain of politics. But if conspiracy theory lies outside the sphere of legitimate politic...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Md. :
Bucknell University Press,
c2012.
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| Colección: | Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Usurpations, or The end of politics
- Reading for the complot: A secret history of the word "plot"
- The complot effect (Piglia): The unsaid (Hemingway), Waiting for something or other (Reed)
- Politics in the age of the imaginative leap: The imaginative leap (Hofstadter and the HSCA report): Catachrestic tales, or What is a political event? (DeLillo), Kennedy assassinations, or What (un)makes a political event? (Volpi)
- Why hidden figures matter for politics: Pynchon's parasite (The crying of Lot 49), Menchú's political traps (I, Rigoberta Menchú)
- The discovery of politics: The Tlönian invasion, or Politics at risk (Borges), The ruins of politics (Pynchon's Gravity's rainbow)
- Epilogue: Counterfeit politics (Piglia's The absent city).