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But, of course, its not just France, mainstream reportage on other mass demonstrations has predictably been either noticably mute or smugly dismissive: the biggest ever demonstration in Los Angeles' history occured last Saturday, when 2 million protested against the neo-cons' imminent...

Sure, it is easy to conflate avant-garde modernism with 20th century modernity's contemporaneous reactions to it, but it is clear why the modernist avant-garde [as opposed to the earlier bourgeoise modernist project of autonomising art, from politics, from society] failed to deliver on its...

Then take your pathetic ravings off this forum and into private E-mail [was talking to you, not about you]. But you've plenty of time to write it ...

Who is saying this other than you? To repeat: ... at a time when a majority of, for instance, Americans, now believe that they were betrayed, manipulated, misled about the illegal invasion of Iraq, among other things, the Bush Admin having used the pretext of 9/11 and the resulting paranoid...

Blunt, my post above was an attempt to analyse the phenomenon of conspiracies in all their structural complexity. Your response is to present a series of unexamined announcements and simple rejections based on arbitrary value judgements, as well as an empiricism devoid of any theoretical...

:) Of course, string theory, quantum theory, even relativity theory are all "hard to read if you are not familiar with their languages already, and don't really say anything that hasn't been said more clearly elsewhere." Oh roiight. Maybe instead Creationism, Social Darwinism, and Flat Earth...

Yes indeed, Owen, and the other articles in that Guardian collection are equally odiously revisionist. Take, for instance, Jonathan Jones' truly obnoxious piece on cinema, "Action", eg "Nazis and communists alike wanted to 'engineer human souls'... In the 20th century millions gyrated to the...

Yes, the "perplexity" of the conspiracy "phenomenon", its structure of belief, does have implications at the narrative (and postmodern) level. We can dismiss conspiracies as literal impossibilities but nonetheless an unresolved tension remains which suggests that simply rejecting them outright...

Your politically-correct Superego is repressing your Id? Psychoanalysts would certainly be very impressed - so let's perpetuate the pretence ... See below. Iron discipline on display there, bassnation. Congratulations! Have you got a reference or a link for that? Cheers! "What is the...

Yes, while the actual conspiracy authors (Bush, Blair, etc and their cabal of pathological advisors), of the "war on terror", of the "evil other", are all active. Yes, while the conspiracy theorists "proper", those who effectively attribute reports of their [the authors, the agents] actions to...

When we have the supreme pleasure of witnessing your arguments and your evidence, as opposed to the above reactionary economy of school-yard bile, then we might entertain you some more appropriate syllables. I've been "presenting" arguments and evidence relating to this issue for the past...

It's your assumptions that are the difficulty here: your "simple" [assumption: neutral, harmless, fair and reasonable] request for links/references/information was anything but simple - it was patronising and, yes, lazy. And its your "opinions on the current situation" which are disturbing and...

Fulci aside, would this be a "wonder to behold", the unwatchable Death Valley: The Revenge of Bloody Bill (Byron Werner, 2004)??? "When a group of college kids stumble upon a small abandoned town of Sunset Valley, they must fight a band of Zombies led by a Confederate soldier seeking...

You'd "prefer" if others conducted all the research for you? All too tired and emotional to doodle on google? Better, its yet another conspiracy theory and ya want to call my bluff? You're not really interested in an answer, are you? Only in the absense of such ... But here's a recent wee...

RE: Chomsky The views expressed above by Chomsky over a year ago have since been radically revised. Chomsky currently believes that a nuclear strike against Iran is "inevitable". Simply arguing here about the planned "date of attack" is an unfortunate distraction, serving merely to disavow the...

I apologize for not having been born. It was wrong of me not to reflect on it.

The problem relates to the "literalness" of the fundamentalist and the "disavowal" of the liberal [as Zizek says, "nobody really believes today"]: the fundamentalist who, say, believes literally in Noah's Ark or in Extraterrestrials [hardly lone Jeremiahs, with 25 per cent of Americans believing...

Reading the insistently complacent, dull reality principle ("accept the way things are" and "nobody can do nothing bout' anthing" and "anyone who does is arrogant and belligerent") posts/threads hearabouts on Conspiracy Theories, on the US publicly-announced (by the Bush regime, by Israel, by...

TracyShock Last night's third installment of ArtShock on Channel 4 was particularly revealing about the leading players [gender issues serving as a convenient displacement] of BritArt. After witnessing, on the Tracy Emin-narrated-and-presented documentary, Tracy and Rachel Whiteread...

Well, I think the difficulty here is with the gratuitous labelling of some stance, any stance [political or otherwise] that is outside the dominant ideology and its media outlets as "conspiracy theory", for it presupposes some irrefutable, established knowledge [factual or analytic] on the part...