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Journal Article
Benevolent Conspiracy: Biopolitics and Paranoia in Shane Carruth's Upstream Color
2023
Overview
Celebrated by critics for its elliptical, fragmentary aesthetics, Shane Carruth's Upstream Color deploys elements of the paranoid science fiction thriller, albeit without the requisite affective register of panic and anxiety. The fictional biotechnological process at the core of its narrative evolves into a complex web of visual and thematic associations in which paranoid anxiety gradually dissipates. While this appears at first glance as a critical deconstruction of conspiracy theories--all the more relevant at a time when American politics engages more than ever in what Richard Hofstadter has called a \"paranoid style\"--the film actually steers clear of conventional gestures of opposing or debunking paranoia. Instead, it expands the representational range in which paranoia can be rendered and experienced. Proposing what amounts of a version of conspiracy that is no longer nefarious in methods and intents, but potentially beneficial in its outcomes, Upstream Color assumes particular relevance in regard to the biological metaphors it selects to make its point--an exploration of biopolitics which, viewed in hindsight of the COVID-19 pandemic, accounts both for the productive management of biotechnological anxieties and the conspiracy theories in which these anxieties manifest themselves.
Publisher
The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts,Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts
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