Conspiracy discourse and the Occupy Movement

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Notes

1 See, for instance, ‘Conspiracy Envy’, The Economist, November 29, 2011, http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/11/occupy-wall-street-3 (accessed November 21, 2012); M. Jessup, ‘Spotted at Occupy Wall Street: Tin Foil Hats!’, The Blaze, October 21, 2011, http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2011/10/21/spotted-at-occupy-wall-street-tin-foil-hats/ (accessed November 21, 2012); and Abe Greenwald, ‘Occupy Wall Street has an Anti-Semitism Problem’, Commentary, October 11, 2011, http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/10/11/occupy-wall-street-has-an-anti-semitism-problem/ (accessed November 21, 2012).

2 See M. Fenster, Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008).

3 F. Jameson, Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1991), 80.

4 Naomi Wolf, ‘The Shocking Truth about the Crackdown on Occupy’, The Guardian, November 25, 2011, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/nov/25/shocking-truth-about-crackdown-occupy (accessed November 21, 2012).

5 Matt Seaton, ‘Naomi Wolf: Reception, Responses, Critics’, The Guardian, November 28, 2011, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/nov/28/naomi-wolf-reception-responses-critics (accessed November 21, 2012).

6 Wolf, ‘The Shocking Truth about the Crackdown on Occupy’.

9 Ibid.

7 Ibid.

8 Ibid.

11 Ibid.

10 Joshua Holland, ‘Are Federal Officials Pushing a Nationwide Crackdown on the Occupy Wall Street Movement?’, Alternet, November 16, 2011, http://www.alternet.org/story/153104 (accessed November 21, 2012).

13 Erik Kain, ‘No, the Crackdown Against Occupy is Not the Work of the Shadowy Elite’, Forbes, November 26, 2011, http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/11/26/no-the-crackdown-against-occupy-wall-street-is-not-the-work-of-the-shadowy-elite/ (accessed November 21, 2012).

12 Corey Robin, ‘Why Naomi Wolf got it Wrong’, Al Jazeera, November 29, 2011, http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/11/20111129151234836584.html (accessed November 21, 2012).

14 Seaton, ‘Naomi Wolf: Reception, Responses, Critics’.

15 ‘Occupy Wall Street: Conspiracy Theories’, The Economist, November 28, 2011, http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/11/occupy-wall-street-2 (accessed November 21, 2012).

16 Greenwald, ‘Occupy Wall Street has an Anti-Semitism Problem’.

17 Daniel Halper, ‘More Anti-Semitism – and Conspiracy Theories – at Occupy Wall Street’, The Weekly Standard, October 21, 2011, http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/more-anti-semitism-and-conspiracy-theories-occupy-wall-street_604264.html (accessed November 21, 2012).

18 For a summary of this influence see Jack Bratich, Conspiracy Panics: Political Rationality and Popular Culture (New York: State University of New York Press, 2008), 25–37.

19 Lev Grossman, ‘Why Conspiracy Theories won't go Away’, Time Magazine, September 3, 2006; Christopher Haynes, ‘9/11: The Roots of Paranoia’, The Nation, December 8, 2006; and Lexington, ‘Still Crazy After all These Years’, The Economist, August 20, 2009.

20 ‘Black Helicopters over Nashville’, Newsweek, February 8, 2010, http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2010/02/08/black-helicopters-over-nashville.html (accessed November 21, 2012); David Barshaw, ‘Tea Party Lights Fuse for Rebellion on Right’, New York Times, February 15, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/us/politics/16teaparty.html?adxnnl=1&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1352178761-/mnOVioRX86lKIl0YuvNRg (accessed November 21, 2012).

21 Matt Seaton, ‘Naomi Wolf: Receptions, Responses, Critics’, The Guardian, November 8, 2011, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/nov/28/naomi-wolf-reception-responses-critics (accessed November 21, 2012); Tom Hayden, ‘Why Naomi Wolf's Occupy Conspiracy Can't Explain Occupy L.A.’, The Nation, November 9, 2011, http://www.thenation.com/article/164851/why-naomi-wolfs-occupy-conspiracy-theory-cant-explain-occupy-la# (accessed November 21, 2012).

22 See Fenster, Conspiracy Theories, 1–51.

23 Bratich, Conspiracy Panics, 14–50.

24 Ibid.

26 Ibid., 13.

25 Keith Goshorn, ‘Strategies of Deterrence and Frames of Containment: On Critical Paranoia and Anti-conspiracy Discourse’, Theory & Event 4, no. 3 (2000), http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theory_and_event/v004/4.3r_goshorn.html (accessed November 21, 2012).

27 Ibid.

28 Jodi Dean, ‘Declarations of Independence’, in Cultural Studies as Political Theory, ed. Jodi Dean (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000), 299–304.