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The Resonance of Unseen Things: Poetics, Power, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny

The Resonance of Unseen Things: Poetics, Power, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny

Lepselter, Susan

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UFOs & ExtraterrestrialsAnthropology

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ISBN10: 0472052942
ISBN13: 9780472052943
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: Mar 3 2016
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
The Resonance of Unseen Things offers an ethnographic meditation on the uncanny persistence and cultural freight of conspiracy theory. The project is a reading of conspiracy theory as an index of a certain strain of late 20th-century American despondency and malaise, especially as understood by people experiencing downward social mobility. Written by a cultural anthropologist with a literary background, this deeply interdisciplinary book focuses on the enduring American preoccupation with captivity in a rapidly transforming world. Captivity is a trope that appears in both ordinary and fantastic iterations here, and Susan Lepselter shows how multiple troubled histories--of race, class, gender, and power--become compressed into stories of uncanny memory.

We really don't have anything like this in terms of a focused, sympathetic, open-minded ethnographic study of UFO experiencers. . . . The author's semiotic approach to the paranormal is immensely productive, positive, and, above all, resonant with what actually happens in history.

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