LEADER 03443nam 2200493zu 450 001 9910137133103321 005 20220204020805.0 010 $a0-472-12154-5 035 $a(CKB)3710000000761985 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001693880 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16544204 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001693880 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14859469 035 $a(PQKB)25089602 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5124436 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6533236 035 $a(BIP)61317843 035 $a(BIP)54090967 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000761985 100 $a20160829d2016 uy 101 0 $aeng 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe resonance of unseen things : poetics, power, captivity, and UFOs in the American uncanny 210 31$a[Place of publication not identified]$cUniversity of Michigan Press$d2016 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a0-472-07294-3 330 $aThe 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." --Jeffrey J. Kripal, J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Religion, Rice University "Lepselter relates a weave of intimate alien sensibilities in out-off-the-way places which are surprisingly, profoundly, close to home. Readers can expect to share her experience of contact with complex logics of feeling, and to do so in a contemporary America they may have thought they understood." --Debbora Battaglia, Mount Holyoke College "An original and beautifully written study of contemporary American cultural poetics. . . . The book convincingly brings into relief the anxieties of those at the margins of American economic and civic life, their perceptions of state power, and the narrative continuities that bond them to histories of violence and expansion in the American West." --Deirdre de la Cruz, University of Michigan 606 $aHuman-alien encounters$zUnited States 606 $aConspiracy theories 606 $aParapsychology & Occult Sciences$2HILCC 606 $aSocial Sciences$2HILCC 615 0$aHuman-alien encounters 615 0$aConspiracy theories. 615 7$aParapsychology & Occult Sciences 615 7$aSocial Sciences 676 $a001.942 700 $aLepselter$b Susan Claudia$0862430 801 0$bPQKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910137133103321 996 $aThe resonance of unseen things : poetics, power, captivity, and UFOs in the American uncanny$91925147 997 $aUNINA