02089oam 2200421 450 991013692890332120230621140500.09780472121540 (eBook)9780472072941 (hardback)9780472052943 (paperback)(CKB)3710000000684994(OCoLC)945384245(EXLCZ)99371000000068499420161020h20162016 uy 0engurcn#nnn|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierResonance of unseen things poetics, power, captivity, and UFOs in the American uncanny /Susan LepselterAnn Arbor, MI :University of Michigan Press,2016.©20161 online resource (viii, 181 pages)Print version: 9780472052943 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Human-alien encountersConspiracy theoriesUnited StatesHuman-alien encounters.Conspiracy theories001.942Lepselter Susan Claudia862430AuAdUSAAuAdUSAUkMaJRU9910136928903321Resonance of unseen things2105964UNINA