Apr 10, 2017
As such, the conspiratorial subject is not a product of conspiracy but a product of the postmodern global society he or she is trying to map through the medium of conspiracy. The conspiratorial subject represents a postmodern self incapable of critical distance, the result of which is a self-reflexive subjectivity that is itself a reproduction of postmodern culture.
Fran Mason. 2002. “A Poor Person’s Cognitive Mapping.” In Conspiracy Nation: The Politics of Paranoia in Postwar America, ed. Peter Knight. New York: New York University Press.