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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lepselter, Susan Claudia (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]
Series:Open Access e-Books
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Subjects:
Human-alien encounters.
Alien abduction.
Conspiracy theories > United States.
Captivity narratives > United States.
Uncanny, The (Psychoanalysis)
Rencontres avec les extraterrestres.
Enlèvement extraterrestre.
Théories du complot > États-Unis.
Récits de captivité > États-Unis.
Inquiétante étrangeté (Psychanalyse)
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Human-alien encounters
Conspiracy theories
Captivity narratives
Alien abduction
United States
Ethnographies
Ethnographies.
Études ethnographiques.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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