Fictional and nonfictional cultural texts are always already political in that they “reflect as well as produce ideology: They ‘reflect, embody, reveal, mirror, symbolize’ through ‘reproducing (consciously or unconsciously) the myths, ideas, concepts, beliefs, images of an historical period.” Purportedly nonfictional conspiracy narratives, the claims of self-proclaimed victims of government funded mind control, medical abuse, surveillance and psychotropic harassment, and fictional works like BUG, that depict the aforementioned subjects, all indicate, in the words of Jodi Dean, a shared and
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