"Conspiracy, plot"

• The theme of conspiracy has its historical roots in the events and stories of the Biblical and classical tradition (the conspiracies of Absalon in the Books of Samuel, of the 400 in Athens, of Catiline and of Brutus and Cassius against Caesar in Rome). The theme of conspiracy was often at the center of historical events, and also of chronicles, narration, political theory, and theat-rical representations in the courts of Renaissance Europe and of absolute monarchies, and later, with remarkable consequences on collective behavior, in various political regimes, and especially in the dictatorial ones, of the modern State, producing secret political movements and political plots. Of particular relevance the new articulation of conspiracy in the post-modern society dominated by economic globalization and powerful and inaccessible supernational organizations (Eco, Pynchon, DeLillo). 
  The theme encourages a confrontation among students of literature, history, philosophy, political theory, theater, opera, and cinema. Each one of them can analyze, from his or her particular point of view, the traditions and exemplary texts which narrate or represent conspiracies. Of particular interest is the relationship that can be established between strategies of political behavior and strategies of narration, as suggested by the metaphor, which is present in some European languages, between «to plot a conspiracy» and «to weave the plot of a story» («tramare», or «ordire un complotto» and «costruire la trama di una storia»; «tramer» or «ourdir un complot» and «ourdir la trame, l'intrigue d'une histoire»). 
   
   
  
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