Conspiracy Culture

[Dave Monroe]

Knight, Peter.  Conspiracy Culture: From Kennedy to the X-Files.
   New York: Routledge, 2000.

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>From Ch. 1, "Conspiracy/Culture," Sec. II, "Vineland and Visibility," pp. 57-75:

"The hidden depths and conceasled realms which might encourage
countercultural fantasies of a conspiratorial 'We-system' (as
Gravity's Rainbow termed it) have thus all but disappeared in the
world of Vineland.  Everything has become exposed (to use a film
metaphor to which the novel itself is highly attuned) ....  On this
reading, then, the final failure of the 1960s underground culture
comes about not through any of the conspiratorial fanstasies of
apocalypse which the counterculture predicted, but because there is
nowhere left to hide.  Everything is visible, and everything is
connected, producing a situation in which a routine sense of paranoia
is paradoxically both no longer necessary, and more vital than ever."
(p. 73)

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