Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
[PDF file]: […] I struggled through to page 12 where I was stopped by these paragraphs. ‘Conspiracy theorists solve or dissolve the paradox of belonging without inclusion by representing the hidden order as a totality (Jameson 2009, 603, 1992, 3, 1991, 38). Indeed, the totality of a multiplicity of elements belongs to the multiplicity without being included […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
[PDF file]: […] Collections” ’? Secrecy in Britain Jonathan Bloch D istinguished guests it is a great honour to give this keynote speech. I will use the 600,000 Foreign Office hidden files as a launching pad to examine the history of secrecy in Britain, why it is so persistent and pervasive, attempts to change it and what […]
Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)
[PDF file]: […] 293 See Bower, The Perfect English Spy, chapter 4 294 Wyatt fronting for IRD. 295 The Peril In Our Midst, (London: Phoenix House, 1956) Aidan Crawley, ‘The Hidden Face of British Communism’, Sunday Times, 28 October 1962, reprinted as a pamphlet. Crawley fronting for whom? IRD seems the most likely answer. 296 65 saw […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
[PDF file]: […] thesis is about social control, corporations, the mass media and the techniques used by political and commercial PR to keep ‘the sheeple’ quiet on behalf of ‘the hidden elite minority’. Did I say agitprop? Within that, however, there is a decent guide to the techniques deployed. But that thesis is no more important, it […]