The resonance of unseen things : poetics, power, captivity, and UFOs in the American uncanny / Susan Lepselter.
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 unders...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
2016.
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 181 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780472121540 0472121545 0472072943 9780472072941 0472052942 9780472052943 9780472900657 047290065X |
| Language: | English. |