Resonance of Unseen Things Poetics, Power, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny

"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
Other Authors: Lepselter, Susan Claudia, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press 2016.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009745260806719
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.