If the imperial psyche could be defined as the default operating system in contemporary global capitalism, many operations address the schizoid dynamic at work in the American worldview, an apocalyptic contest where protean openness and totalistic zeal engage in dialectical conflict. American history is replete with these oppositional impulses – religious revivals, retreats into political secrecy, militarism and greed in the face of a world-wide conspiracy of its mirror image. These sensibilities are also vitally communicative in the sense that they exist almost exclusively through the faithful witnessing of their adherents...