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 /

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"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...

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Main Author: Lepselter, Susan Claudia (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Conspiracy theories > United States.
Human-alien encounters.
Alien abduction.
Captivity narratives.
Conspiracy theories.
Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.
Inquietante etrangete (Psychanalyse)
Recits de captivite > États-Unis.
Theories du complot > États-Unis.
Enlevement extraterrestre.
Rencontres avec les extraterrestres.
Captivity narratives > United States.
United States.
Études ethnographiques.
Ethnographies.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Vulnerabilities
  • Secret immobilities and the poetics of the uncanny
  • Dreaming the colonized world : the resonance of captivity
  • You can't repair history
  • Here comes a change : at home in the weird
  • It all comes together : power, containment, the dream of escape
  • One more thing.

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