The Paranoid Reading List · 1314 entries on file

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A one stop reading list for the parapolitical, the paranoid and the Marxist. Fiction to conceive the deep event, non-fiction and the academic record to document it, and film to watch it play out. Pick a format, then filter by year, keyword, author or director.

The ParapoliticalGladio, the strategy of tension, the CIA, deep events and the dual state.
The ParanoidThe paranoid novel, conspiracy culture, the weird and capital as cosmic horror.
The MarxistDialectical materialism, the spectacle, empire and the theory to read it all with.
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The Twenty Days of Turin

Giorgio De Maria · 1977 · Fiction

A Turin writer investigates a forgotten wave of nocturnal killings and a citizens' "Library" of confessions, an allegory of Italy's Years of Lead and state terror.

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Four formatsEvery entry: title, year, author or director, type, keywords and a one sentence summary

EXHIBIT A

Fiction

451 entries

Fiction is how the deep event gets conceived before it gets documented. Paranoid novels, noir, weird fiction, dystopias, the modernists and the poets.

  • The Twenty Days of Turin (1977)
  • Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
  • American Tabloid (1995)
  • The Iron Heel (1908)
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Film and TV

105 entries

The conspiracy thriller, the political cinema of the Years of Lead, the documentary record and the television that understood the system.

  • The Parallax View (1974)
  • Z (1969)
  • Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)
  • The Wire (2002)
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Non-Fiction

533 entries

The documentary shelf: covert action, Gladio, the CIA, fascism, organized crime, empire, and the Marxist theory to read it all with. Graded by kind of evidence.

  • NATO's Secret Armies (2005)
  • Deep Politics and the Death of JFK (1993)
  • The Jakarta Method (2020)
  • Capital (1867)
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Articles and Journals

225 entries

Peer reviewed papers, parapolitical journals, investigative reportage and the press record, from the 1990 Gladio revelations to now.

  • Covert Netherworld (2016)
  • On Terrorism and the State (1979)
  • The ghost of Machiavelli (2006)
  • Palantir Secretly Used New Orleans to Test Predictive Policing (2018)
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Podcast companion reading listsEach entry carries a flair for the lists it appears on

TrueAnon

302 entries

The TrueAnon listener reading list: Gladio, the CIA, the Kennedys, dark money, Epstein, and the right's own texts read to be recognized.

Fiction 15 Non-Fiction 287
Death Is Just Around the Corner

235 entries

A literary list of modernist novels, late British modernist poetry, philosophy and parapolitical history.

Fiction 170 Non-Fiction 61 Articles and Journals 4
Matt Christman

38 entries

Matt "Cushbomb" Christman's recommendations as ranked by listener votes: Reconstruction, the American right, Gladio and the big novels.

Fiction 10 Non-Fiction 28
Eyes Wide Open

16 entries

The Eyes Wide Open YouTube reading list: JFK, Allen Dulles, blackmail and Epstein, the drug trade and the CIA, and the Asian wars.

Non-Fiction 16
4th Reich Archaeology

45 entries

The 4th Reich Archaeology podcast list: Nazi postwar networks, the CIA and the deep state, JFK, Dugin, Land and Yarvin read to be recognized, and the empire cycle theorists.

Non-Fiction 45
Ali Winston

58 entries

The bleeding edge reading list of reporter Ali Winston: policing, surveillance, the war on terror, Los Angeles, the far right and the novels that frame them.

Fiction 13 Non-Fiction 45

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