Frida Beckman is Professor of Literature at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics at Stockholm University, Sweden.

Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Houston-Victoria. He is founder and editor of symploke, and Executive Director of the Society for Critical Exchange and its Winter Theory Institute. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of 35 books.

Theory Conspiracy provides a state-of-the-art collection that takes stage on the meeting- and/or battlegrounds between conspiracy theory and theory-as-conspiracy.

Theory Conspiracy: An Introduction PART 1: Backgrounds 1. Being Catiline: Sex, Lies, and Coup d'états in the Liberal Order 2. Unsettling History: How an Egyptian Conspiracy Theory Turns Time into Place 3. The Kristeva File 4. A Portrait of Baudelaire as a Conspiracy Theorist PART 2: Contemporary 5. Conspiracy and Ressentiment: The Vexed Politics of the Gilets Jaunes 6. Ugly Freedoms and Insurrectionary Conspiracies 7. Don't Look Up, Birds Aren't Real: Comedy and Conspiracy PART 3: Critical 8. Has Conspiracy Theory Run Out of Steam? 9. A Reparative Chronotope of Critique 10. Conspiring with Theory: Popper, Antitheory, and the Epistemology of Ignorance 11. A Sketch of Conspiratorial Reason