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Conspiracy Theories
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conspiracy theory

conspiracy theory (ken-spîr´e-sê thê´e-rê) noun
A theory seeking to explain a disputed case or matter as a plot by a secret group or alliance rather than an individual or isolated act.
- conspiracy theorist noun


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Laney's probably a more conscious metaphor in that what he does with the internal linknodal points is sort of like what I see myself really doing in that part of my work that some people regard as predictive. There are several places in these books where Laney says: "Look, I can't predict the future. But I am sensitive to some areas from which change is emerging." I think that's pretty much the best we can do these days, because change is both exponential and in some weird, either new or newly revealed way, internal linkout of control. You know, who's running the show? Well, nobody. That's why conspiracy theories are so popular. Conspiracy theories are big because they're comforting. Any conspiracy is internal linkinfinitely less multiplex than the internal linkreal deal, which is sort of multiplex to the point of being unknowable.

- internal linkWilliam Gibson
 
  

William Gibson

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The problem with conspiracy theory is to believe that there is one particular group of human beings who are in control of my destiny. That's a philosophical extreme to which I don't  wanna go.  On the other side it's obvious that people do conspire. That there are conspiracies, secret internal linkforces behind outward political shows of power.  It is clear that there is not one single known politician in America who has any internal linkreal power at all. They are simply working for big corporations and economic interests like oil, or the global market itself. The best model is, that there are many, at least several conspiracies and that they interlock, that they compete, that they melt into each other, that they separate from each other. If we wanna know what's going on, if we wanna understand history as it is happening we should know something about these conspiracies.  Again critical consciousness is a useful tool here.

- internal link_Hakim Bey Talks With Users of Public Netbase 3/18/95_


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In _Foucault's Pendulum_, Umberto Eco suggests that esoteric internal linktruth is perhaps nothing more than a semiotic conspiracy theory born of an endlessly rehashed and self-referential literature the intertextual fabric internal linkH.P. Lovecraft understood so well. For those who need to ground their profound states of consciousness in objective correlatives, this is a damning indictment of "tradition." But as internal linkChaos magicians remind us, internal linkmagic is nothing more than internal linksubjective experience interacting with an internally consistent internal linkmatrix of signs and affects. In the absence of orthodoxy, all we  have is the dynamic tantra of text and internal linkperception, of reading and internal linkdream.   These days the Great Work may be nothing more or less than this "ingenius game," fabricating itself without closure or rest, weaving itself out of the resplendent void where Azathoth writhes on his Mandelbrot throne.

     - Erik Davis - _Calling Cthulu_


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Antioch Arrow - Lady Is A Cat 12 on Gravity Ink and Dagger - Fine Art Of Original Sin on Initial
Atom And His Package - Redefining Music on Hopeless (2001) International Noise Conspiracy - Capitalism Stole My Virginity 12inch on Hopeless (2001)
Wellwater Conspiracy - Declaration of Comformity on Third Gear (1997) Wellwater Conspiracy - Brotherhood Of Electric: Operational Directives on Time Bomb (1999)
Wellwater Conspiracy - The Scroll and Its Combinations on TVT (2001)
Coheed and Cambria - The Second Stage Turbine Blade on Equal Visions (2002) Antioch Arrow - The Lady Is A Cat 12 on Gravity
Volcno Suns - Thing Of Beauty 12inch on SST (1989) Material - Intonarumori on Palm (1999)

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The weakness of conspiracy theory is that human nature is to fuck up. Yeah, of course!  I said that in _The Invisibles_, the idea that no matter how many surveillance cameras you put up, the guy in the surveillance screen room is jerking off.  He's not watching;  he's playing computer games and looking at some magazine or whatever it is he's doing.  You don't have to worry about it.  I think we live in a self-perfecting system and we just don't know it.  Everything is fine.  It's working perfectly; just let it correct itself, and do what you can to help it correct itself when you become aware of it.

Isn't that a justification for apathy? It only looks like apathy.  It's why Buddhist monks seem apathetic to us.  I think it's because they've figured it out.  But it's the kind of system that perfects itself.  Even if you become apathetic, there's always someone else who'll come up who hasn't reached that stage yet and will do all of that.

- Grant Morrison re: the comic series _The Invisibles_


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STAY FREE MAGAZINE: Al Qaeda is itself a conspiracy.

Mark Crispin Miller: Yes. We have to realize that the wildest notions of a deliberate plot are themselves tinged with the same dangerous energy that drives such plots. What we need today, therefore, is not just more alarmism, but a rational appraisal of the terrorist danger, a clear recognition of our own contribution to that danger, and a realistic examination of the weak spots in our system.   Unfortunately, George W. Bush is motivated by an adolescent version of the same fantasy that drives the terrorists. He divides the whole world into Good and Evil, and has no doubt that god is on his side–just like bin Laden. So how can Bush guide the nation through this danger, when he himself sounds dangerous? How can he oversee the necessary national self-examination, when he’s incapable of looking critically within? In this sense the media merely echoes him. Amid all the media’s fulminations against al Qaeda, there has been no sober accounting of how the FBI and CIA screwed up. Those bureaucracies have done a lousy job, but that fact hasn’t been investigated because too many of us are very comfortably locked into this hypnotic narrative of ourselves as the good victims and the enemy as purely evil.


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"Those who suffer from conspiracy phobia are fond of saying: "Do you actually think there's a group of people sitting around in a room plotting things?" For some reason that image is assumed to be so patently absurd as to invite only disclaimers. But where else would people of power get together – on park benches or carousels? Indeed, they meet in rooms: corporate boardrooms, Pentagon command rooms, at the Bohemian Grove, in the choice dining rooms at the best restaurants, resorts, hotels, and estates, in the many conference rooms at the White House, the NSA, the CIA, or wherever. And, yes, they consciously plot – though they call it "planning" and "strategizing" – and they do so in great secrecy, often resisting all efforts at public disclosure. No one confabulates and plans more than political and corporate elites and their hired specialists."

~ Michael Parenti, _Dirty Truths_,City Lights Books, 1996.

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film internal link_23_ (1998)

The movie's plot is based on the internal linktrue story of a group of young computer internal linkhackers from Hannover, Germany. In the late internal link1980s the orphaned Karl Koch invests his heritage in a flat and a home computer. At first he dials up to internal linkbulletin boards to discuss conspiracy theories inspired by his favorite novel, internal linkR.A. Wilson's internal linkIlluminatus", but soon he and his friend David start breaking into government and military computers. Pepe, one of Karl's rather criminal acquaintances senses that there is money in computer cracking - he travels to east Berlin and tries to contact the KGB.

23 (1998)

 

 

 


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