9 Passavant, "The Strong Neoliberal State:'
:ao Ibid.
1 1 Sassen, Losing Control?
12 Zizek, The Fragile Absolute, 40.
1 3 See Zizek, The Parallax View, 297 .
.14 See Dean, Ziiek's Politics, chapter 4·
15 The Parallax View, 10.
16 Ibid., 370.
1 7 "Neighbors and Other Monsters;' 159-60.
1 s Ibid., 16o.
1 9 SantnerJ "Miracles Happen;' 86-87.
20 Ibid., 89.
s:rx Certainty
1 "Half of New Yorkers Believe U.S. Leaders Had Foreknowledge of Impending 9 I 11 Attacks and Consciously Failed to Act; 66% Call for New Probe of Unanswered Questions by Congress of New York<sup>'</sup>s Attorney General, New Zogby International Poll Reveals;' Zogby International, August 30, 2004. Available at http:/ /w.zogby.com, accessed February 20, 2009.
2 <sup>'</sup>�ericans Qy.estion Bush on 9/11 Intelligence;' Angus Reid Global Monitor, October 14, 2006. Available at http:/ /w.angus-reid.com, accessed November 24, 2008.
3 Hargrove and Stemple, <sup>'</sup>Mti-GovernmentAnger Spurs 9 I 11 Conspiracy Beliefs:
4 In Aliens in America I take up belief in extraterrestrial life and alien abduction as a way of exploring the construction of a consensual space Via the exdu�ion of competing conceptions of the real.
5 Fetzer, "Scholars on its First Anniversary:
6 Zizek, The Parallax View, 61.
7 Ibid., 61-62.
8 I am indebted to .Mladen Dolar for this formulation.
9 Dunbar and Reagan, eds., Debunking 9/u Myths, :xv.
10 Ibid.
1 1 Brooks, "The Paranoid Style;' A31.
12 Krugman, "Who's Crazy Now?" Krugman also points out that critics of the Bush administration have often been disparaged as conspiracy theorists.
13 Available at http:/ /www.whitehouse.gov.
14 "The Top September nth Conspiracy Theories;' America.goVj October 25, 2006. Available at http:/ /www.america.gov, accessed February 20, 2009.
1 5 DeMott, "Whitewash as Public Service;' 36.
16 Describing the emergence of a network of independent researchers after 9 In in "Intersecting Facts and Theories on 9 I n;' Joseph P. Firmage writes, "V\lhie the research involved in this truly independent investigation are of varying discipline
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