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Publisher
University of Alabama Press
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
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"In Paradigms of Paranoia, Samuel Chase Coale argues that contemporary culture - a landscape characterized by doubt, ambiguity, fragmentation, information overload, and mistrust - has fostered a radical skepticism so pervasive that the tendency to envision or construct conspiracies often provides the best explanation for the chaos that surrounds us." "Conspiracy as embodied in narrative form provides a fertile field for explorations of the anxiety...