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Conspiracy Culture: From Kennedy to 'The X-Files'

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Peter Knight is a scholar of American Studies now at the University of Manchester (UK), with an excellent reputation and a demonstrated empirical in the largely American phenomenom that calls into question what Knight would call "the narratives of authorities and the authority of narratives."

This excellent book is a demonstration of why American Studies scholars from abroad often can brilliantly inform our understanding of ourselves.

He generally uses methods from the cultural studies field not, as the previous reviewer would have it, to bash conspiracy theorists themselves or their notions of reality.

His goal is to demonstrate how American conspiracy culture of the last 50 years tries to make sense of ideas about causality, agency and responsibility in the global era, one in which we suffer from too much information and an overload of "meaning."

He certainly lit up the attic for me.