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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.…
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UFOs? Really? That’s not normally something I would want to read. But Lepselter embedded herself in a New Mexico community of people who believe they were abducted by aliens and makes it feel, well, real.
Do You think Nothing happened to those people? Lepselter shows how they know you’re skeptical, but they’re also traumatized and need that community of people who get it. Is the Truth out there? Did she become a believer? The ending is a stunner.
From Susan's list on books about Nothing, in particular: because Nothing always means Something.
Lepselter is a scholar of folklore and anthropology as well as a lyrical and compelling writer.
This book is based on a series of interviews she performed with those who have claimed encounters with UFOs and their occupants. In a series of compassionate, rigorous, and detailed readings of the very words these people have told her, Lepselter unpacks the deep anxieties, blessings, and emotions that run through their tales, and gracefully links them to broader national stories that afflict all of us.
Fear of disempowerment, worry about captivities of many sorts, confusion about the powers that run our world. Lepselter…
From Matthew's list on understanding the UFO phenomenon.
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