Seen as an indicator of a more general weakness - one that I will Theory hitherto practised by cultural and literary studies can be My intention is to demonstrate how the analysis of conspiracy The aporias that lie at the heart of legitimacy, knowledge and
Is particularly interesting and useful in this context, not leastīecause it has explicitly and rigorously turned its attention to
Position with regards to legitimacy: deconstruction. As a way of thinking through these issues I’m going to beĭrawing on another mode of thought which occupies a precarious Precisely what makes it significant for other discourses orĭisciplines including (and, I will suggest, especially) cultural Regarded as excessive or paranoid interpretation - is also That what might be unusual about conspiracy theory (why it is suchĪn interesting, ‘singular’ case study) - namely, the way it is Internalised paranoia about how it is perceived). Of cultural studies by others, or cultural studies’ own Interdisciplinary knowledge, conspiracy theory might have much inĬommon with cultural studies (at least in terms of the perception ‘illegitimate’ or marginal in some way, and as a synthetic, Second, that as a mode of interpretation accused of being Of interpretation itself, conspiracy theory might raise questionsĪbout cultural analysis and interpretation per se and In what follows, then, I want to propose: first, that as a form Mean for any knowledge we produce about it or how we interpret Knowledge or interpretation, while also addressing what this might In this way, weĬan appreciate conspiracy theory as a unique form of popular The position from which cultural analysis occurs. I also want to consider how it highlights a general problem with Consequently, while I want to claim aĬertain specificity for the focus of my study - conspiracy theory Others, these practices may reveal a difficulty at the heart ofĬultural analysis in general. More problems to the way in which we approach them than But while I think that thereĪre certainly cultural practices and texts that present Identified music as ‘exceeding’ a notion of culture as a set of To give a recent example, Jeremy Gilbert has ‘everyday’) have been presented as requiring a unique frame of Time or another in the history of cultural studies various culturalįorms and practices (for example, subcultures, fans, the Knowledge about it? Perhaps this is nothing new after all, at one Knowledge, have implications for how we interpret and produce Theory, itself a form of (albeit popular) interpretation and (internal and external) conspiratorial narratives.Īt issue here is the problem of approach. Subject to, and structured by, the possibility of a number of What cultural studies has to teach us about conspiracy theory, butĪlso to consider what conspiracy theory might have to teach usĪbout cultural studies - a field which can itself be seen to be I want to take a closer look at the relationshipīetween conspiracy theory and cultural studies, not just to learn Institutional or managerial paranoia about the politics and aims ofĬultural studies). Little further (the paranoia of those working ‘in’ cultural studiesĪbout their own position, the paranoia of those from otherĭisciplines about student interest in cultural studies, and an Think it is worth investigating the layers of paranoia hinted at a ‘immediate pressures on higher education in Britain’. Less to do with a plot against cultural studies and more with the
Studies, Paul Gilroy hastily goes on to stress that the closure has Save Birmingham University’s Centre for Contemporary Cultural Having raised the spectre of conspiracy in this on-line plea to Innovations hard to accept and its political positions unpalatable. Had a history of conflict with administrators who found its Of its cultural-studies brand or it may be seen as belated Matter of settling scores by colleagues envious of the reputation Conspiracy theorists may present the Birmingham closure as a
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