| Description |
1 online resource. |
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data file |
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Open Access e-Books
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Knowledge Unlatched
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references 9pages 167-172) and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Human-alien encounters.
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Human-alien encounters. |
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Conspiracy theories -- United States.
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Conspiracy theories. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: The resonance of unseen things Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016] 9780472072941 (hardcover : alk. paper) (DLC) 2015043812 |
| ISBN |
9780472121540 ebook |
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0472121545 |
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9780472052943 paperback : alkaline paper |
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9780472072941 hardcover : alkaline paper |
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0472072943 (electronic book) |
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9780472072941 |
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0472052942 (electronic book) |
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9780472052943 |
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9780472900657 (electronic book) |
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047290065X (electronic book) |
| Standard No. |
10.3998/mpub.7172850 |
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