DR. CLAIRE BIRCHALL KING'S COLLEGE LONDON
CONSPIRACY THEORY (Wiki)
Clare Birchall at King's College London describes conspiracy theory as a "form of popular knowledge or interpretation".[b] By acquiring the title 'knowledge', conspiracy theory is considered alongside more 'legitimate' modes of knowing.[c] The relationship between legitimate and illegitimate knowledge, Birchall claims, is far closer than common dismissals of conspiracy theory would have us believe.[25] Other popular knowledge might include alien abduction narratives, gossip, some new age philosophies, religious beliefs, and astrology.
MY QUESTION: Might it be possible to place subjective probabilities on the possible truth of particular conspiracy theories? These can be regarded as imaginative hypotheses.
Selected Publications
- Knowledge Goes Pop: From Conspiracy Theory to Gossip (London: Berg, 2006).
- New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory, eds. Clare Birchall and Gary Hall (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006).
- ‘Between Transparency and Secrecy’, Theory, Culture & Society, Volume 28, Nos. 7-8, December 2011.
- ‘The Secret Issue’, Cultural Studies, Volume 21, No.1 January 2007.
- ‘Data.gov-in-a-box: Delimiting Transparency’, European Journal of Social Theory 18(2) March 2015.
- ‘Aesthetics of the Secret’, New Formations 83, January 2015: 25-46.
- ‘Radical Transparency?’, Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies 14(1), February 2014: 77-88.
RESEARCH PORTAL
DATA GOES POP (Video)
