09 AN ECONOMY OF SUSPICION / ON THE “MILITARY-CIVILIAN DIVIDE” AND THE NEW AMERICAN MILITARISM

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1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. INTRODUCTION: CONSPIRACY / THEORY 1
4. PART I ORGANIZING FICTIONS
5. 01 IMPASSE AND GENRE IN AMERICAN POLITICS AND LITERATURE 37
6. 02 WHERE DID AIDS COME FROM? 61
7. 03 A FALSE FLAG 81
8. 04 CONSPIRACY ATTUNEMENT AND CONTEXT / THE CASE OF THE PRESIDENT’S BODY 104
9. 05 CONSPIRACY, THEORY, AND THE “POST-TRUTH” PUBLIC SPHERE 127
10. PART II ATMOSPHERES OF DOUBT
11. 06 ON UNCERTAINTY AND THE QUESTION OF JUDGMENT 149
12. 07 RESONANT APOPHENIA 174
13. 08 THE PLAY OF CONSPIRACY IN PLATO’S REPUBLIC 190
14. 09 AN ECONOMY OF SUSPICION / ON THE “MILITARY-CIVILIAN DIVIDE” AND THE NEW AMERICAN MILITARISM 210
15. PART III THE FORCE OF CAPITAL
16. 10 CONSPIRACIES OF THEORY / OF GOLD IN THE SHADOW OF DEINDUSTRIALIZATION 235
17. 11 ADRIAN PIPER AND ALIEN CONSPIRACIES OF BULLYING AND WHISTLEBLOWING 264
18. 12 HUMANITARIAN PROFITEERING IN THE CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC AS CONSPIRACY AND RUMOR 291
19. 13 CONFESSIONS OF AN ACCUSED CONSPIRACY THEORIST / THE FINANCIALIZATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION 314
20. PART IV THE POLITICS OF ENMITY
21. 14 CONSPIRACY AND ITS CURIOUS AFTERLIVES 341
22. 15 COMEDY OF TERRORS / NATIONAL SECURITY FICTIONS AND THE ORIGINS OF AL-QA‘ IDA 362
23. 16 AFTER MUSLIMS / AUTHORITY, SUSPICION, AND SECRECY IN THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC STATE 386
24. 17 FLAME AND STEEL INSIDE THE CAPITOL 409
25. EPILOGUE 425
26. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 435
27. REFERENCES 437
28. CONTRIBUTORS 483
29. CONTRIBUTORS 485