Format:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 181 pages)
ISBN:
9780472121540
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0472121545
,
0472072943
,
9780472072941
,
0472052942
,
9780472052943
,
9780472900657
,
047290065X
Content:
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
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780472072941
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Resonance of Unseen Things, Poetics, Power, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny Ann Arbor:University of Michigan Press, ©2016 ISBN 9780472072941
Language:
English
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