Astro-logic: Conspiracy as Compensation and the Palliative Paranoia of Don DeLillo's Libra

IF 0.1 0 LITERATURE, AMERICAN

Arizona Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI:10.1353/arq.2023.a899702

Timothy Lem-Smith

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Abstract

Abstract:Don DeLillo's Libra (1988) is a fictionalization of the events leading up to the Kennedy assassination that considers the telos of conspiracy theory in a fictional context. DeLillo uses the Kennedy assassination to animate epistemological questions that both destabilize and seek to restore notions of agency, authority, intentionality and collectivity, using conspiracy theory as a kind of prismatic heuristic. DeLillo engages these various concepts under the sign of a conspiracy aesthetic, that is, an aesthetic that deploys the unverifiable precepts of conspiracy theory as if they were real. My treatment ultimately considers the political/ethical valences of fictional narratives that produce coherence out of the chaos of traumatic crisis-events in order to conceptualize how DeLillo's novel offers a reparative gesture that is, paradoxically, grounded in paranoia.

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占星术：阴谋作为补偿与唐·德利洛《天秤座》的缓和偏执

摘要：唐·德利洛（Don DeLillo）的《天秤座》（Libra）（1988）是对肯尼迪遇刺事件的虚构，将阴谋论的终结置于虚构的背景下。DeLillo利用肯尼迪遇刺事件来激发认识论问题，这些问题既破坏了代理、权威、意向性和集体性的概念，又试图恢复这些概念，将阴谋论作为一种棱镜启发式。DeLillo将这些不同的概念置于阴谋美学的标志下，也就是说，一种将阴谋论中无法验证的戒律当作真实存在的美学。我的治疗最终考虑了虚构叙事的政治/伦理价值，这些叙事在创伤危机事件的混乱中产生了连贯性，从而概念化了德里洛的小说是如何提供一种修复姿态的，矛盾的是，这种姿态是基于偏执。

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