Elizabeth Anne Davis is Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University, where she is affiliated with the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies. She is author of Bad Souls: Madness and Responsibility in Modern Greece (2012), which won the Gregory Bateson Prize, and Artifactual: Forensic and Documentary Knowing (2023).
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Introduction: The Time of the Cannibals 1 Part 1: On Conspiracy Theory and Context 27 1. The Symptomatic Approach 28 2. The Epistemological Approach 47 3. The Particularist Approach 54 4. The Psychoanalytic Approach 63 5. The Political Approach 76 6. Toward Conspiracy Attunement 87 Interlude: The Body Itself 110 Part 2: On Conspiracy Attunement: A Case Study 153 1. Discourse on Division 155 2. The President's Body 168 3. Recursion and the Curse of Cyprus 193 Inconclusion (Recontextualization) 217 Acknowledgments 227 Notes 231 Bibliography 253 On the Frontispiece 273 Index 275 Insert follows page 150
As the pages turn onto each other the brilliance of this book explodes showing that this is a project that brings together the ante- and afterlives of British colonialism in its most sinister form.---Neni Panourgia, Columbia University Elizabeth Davis interrogates our ongoing epistemic breakdowns and offers a startlingly original theorization of conspiracy attunements. This is nothing less than a guide book on how to think critically and navigate our current post-fact, misinformation-filled media milieu.---Joseph Masco, University of Chicago