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The jeaning of America -- Commodities and culture -- Productive pleasures -- Offensive bodies and carnival pleasures -- Popular texts -- Popular discrimination -- Politics

An exploration of "cumulative narrative" focuses on the story of the abduction of Samantha Mulder, FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder's younger sister, on the TV series, The X-Files. Perusal of the recurring Samantha theme over the seven seasons aired in the UK through 2000 notes that Fox Mulder's pursuit of answers related to the X-files is motivated by his desire to discover the truth behind his sister's abduction. The Samantha narrative is considered in light of both a "popular culture of conspiracy," which involves the production, circulation, & consumption of conspiracy theories in popular culture, & the "conspiracy of popular culture," which centers on how "fringe knowledges" about things like alien abductions achieve mass exposure & popularity. The X-Files includes the essential elements of conspiracy theories while emphasizing the search for "truth," but it is just one of many pop-cultural products with conspiracy at its core. Theodor Adorno's (1994) astrological readings are drawn on to examine the knowledge, commodity, & culture forms/functions that help to shape the current landscape of conspiracy. 25 References. J. Lindroth