The 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 unders...
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2016
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