some conspiracy theory urls

[pynchonoid]

http://www.zmag.org/parecon/conspiracy.htm
"conspiracy theory" compared with "institutional
theory"

http://www.powells.com/subsection/PoliticsCovertGovernmentandConspiracyTheory.html
"Covert Government and Conspiracy Theory 
There are 608 books in this aisle."


http://www.faqs.org/faqs/books/conspiracy-theory/

http://www.wkac.ac.uk/ccc/content/academic.htm
"We would very much like to establish a network for
academics working in this area. At a later date we
hope to be able to provide a mailbase and facilities
for discussion.
The following is a list of email addresses and
information about academics working in this area. If
you would like to add your name to this list, please
mail us. Don’t forget to include some information on
your interests."

http://www.wkac.ac.uk/ccc/content/essay1.htm
"[...] Issues of knowledge, secrecy and power do have
to be admitted, in which the possibilities and appeal
of conspiracy thinking as a genuine uncovering of
secrets and a revelation of authority are apparent.
But on its own, this approach would serve only to
legitimate certain conspiracy thinking as rational and
therefore as worthwhile; what also demands our
collective consideration are the utmost tendencies of
conspiracy to enquire and imagine. Therefore, to take
the other extreme, while it is clear that there is a
'camp' quality to some of the more baroque theories
put forward (eg, that the British Royal family are
drug-runners), this should only indicate more strongly
the need for an appreciation of the aesthetics of
conspiracy-mongering, and for a scholarly enquiry
about the meaning of the pleasures, entertainments,
and satisfactions which conspiracy appears to provide
to such large numbers of Americans today. To that end,
it is evident that conspiracy thinking today is no
longer confined to Right wing organisations or to
right wing positions. Conspiracy evidently can no
longer can be identified with marginal, and
psychologically disturbed (status-deprived/paranoid)
groups; and that the collective dimension of this
'paranoia', increasingly evident since the Sixties
from Left and Right alike, suggests that employing
clinical terms to collective populations is mistaken -
conspiracy may be a symptom, but not of an illness.
Therefore, the development of conspiracy thinking in
the Sixties and the advent of Leftist (eg gay,
feminist, anti-Vietnam War) perspectives, many with
good reason, and the deployment of conspiracy in
literature by authors such as Pynchon and Delillo
ought to cause us to discuss issues of national
security and the secrecy culture which Tom Engelhart
calls the "invisible government" - for instance in the
context of such as COINTELPRO and Watergate. The
culture of secrecy has bred a culture of conspiracy,
one which post-Sixties events such as Iran-Contra, or
the revelations of radiation testing have only served
to confirm. Furthermore, as Michael Lind in The Next
American Nation has argued, multi-culturalism also has
promoted notions of conspiracy - the Right believes
that the nation has been subverted by a sinister new
class of liberal intellectuals and bureaucrats, and
the Left that opposition to multi-culturalism is
covert, whispered project of the white majority - for
instance the Texaco tapes. Therefore, conspiracy poses
some difficult problems for the accepted
multi-cultural model in which cultural relativism is
allowed, but racial and ethnic divisions are policed.
The acrimonious debates about Afro-centrism, Egypt,
'sun and ice people' and perhaps most significatly the
OJ Simpson trials suggest nothing less. [...]"

http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/F/fenster_conspiracy.html
[,,,] Fenster's progressive critique of conspiracy
theories both recognizes the secrecy and inequities of
power in contemporary politics and economics and works
toward effective political engagement. Probing
conspiracy theory's tendencies toward scapegoating,
racism, and fascism, as well as Hofstadter's centrist
acceptance of a postwar American "consensus," he
advocates what conspiracy theory wants but cannot
articulate: a more inclusive, engaging political
culture.
"Fenster, a lone writer (the literary equivalent of a
lone gunman, perhaps), segues from the novels of
Thomas Pynchon to the Clinton Death List. . . .
Conspiracy Theories is a dangerous book. I suspect
'they' (and you know who I mean, of course) will take
care of this lone writer any day now."Bookforum [...]

http://www.lehigh.edu/~inegs/189Syllabus-b.html


http://www.cambrianpubs.com/DiFilippo/Ciphers.html


http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/v/extra/surfus.html
"[...] The very loud "hint" of conspiracy that colors
the accusations of contemporary revisionist practices
is most likely what compels us, as readers, to study,
as well as to read Pynchon. V. does seem associated
with this phenomena, and although perhaps an elevated
form, it does ring of conspiracy theory, that which
makes the likes of Clancy and Grisham so popular. But
the conspiracy Pynchon reveals is far more
comprehensive than those explored by the grocery story
novelists. And Pynchon is rarely formulaic, such as
are many of our popular authors. And the conspiracy he
reveals, while fictional, is historically based. Far
more than a contemporary iteration of the Oresteia, V.
is a story of creation. It is a story of both "The
Birth of Venus" and the birth of God, a male God.
Thomas Pynchon seems to utilize findings and claims of
contemporary archaeologists, anthropologists and
historians as evidence of the conspiracy that is
revealed (cleverly and even covertly?) in his novel V.
In his use of the letter V. (with the notable period)
as a symbol of this long lost woman, and in his use of
male narrators throughout, we can see how contemporary
theories on Goddess-worshipping societies may inform
Pynchon's work. [...]" 


http://rmmla.wsu.edu/ereview/54.1/articles/hinds.asp
Thomas Pynchon, Wit, and the Work of the Supernatural
Elizabeth Jane Wall Hinds
University of Northern Colorado



http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/postmodern_culture/abstracts/4.2abstracts.html
Glen Scott Allen, Raids on the Conscious: Pynchon's
Legacy of Paranoia and the Terrorism of Uncertainty in
Don Delillo's Ratner's Star" 
*	Abstract: The frequent use of terrorists and
terrorism in DeLillo's novels seems, at first glance,
a direct legacy of the omnipresent paranoia in
Pynchon's work, especially Gravity's Rainbow, where
Pynchon forecasts the postmodern condition of the
surveilled subject as one based on institutionalized
"intrastate" terrorism. However, unlike Pynchon's
alienation from historical institutions, DeLillo's
portrayal of terrorism focuses on the desire, shaped
and reinforced by the mass media, for a "role" in
history as an agent/victim of conspiracies, the desire
for an individual voice in the midst of a blizzard of
competing, conflicting, and potentially meaningless
signals. Finally, while Pynchon seems to argue for
dissolution as the only future for the increasingly
terrified subject, DeLillo offers some support,
however tenuous, for the development of an alternative
postmodern consciousness, one more grounded in
Descartes than Lyotard, and perhaps more romantic than
postmodern. --GSA 











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