Counterfeit politics : secret plots and conspiracy narratives in the Americas / David Kelman.

By:

Kelman, David, 1973-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theoryPublication details: Lanham, Md. : Bucknell University Press, c2012.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 193 p.)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781611484151
1611484154
1306538750
9781306538756

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Counterfeit politicsDDC classification:

860.9/98 23

LOC classification:

PQ7081

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Contents:

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).

Summary: 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 politics, why do these narratives continue to haunt political life? Counterfeit Politics accounts for the seemingly ineradicable nature of conspiracy theory by arguing that all political statements u.

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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 politics, why do these narratives continue to haunt political life? Counterfeit Politics accounts for the seemingly ineradicable nature of conspiracy theory by arguing that all political statements u.

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