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Aliens in America
Conspiracy Cultures from Outerspace to Cyberspace
By Jodi Dean
Our Price: $15.95
Our Item Code: AliensInAmerica
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256 Pages, Trade Paperback
Cover Size: 9 x 6 inches
Cornell University Press
Related listings: Paranormal Skepticism
and Sociology of UFO Claims
Date: 1998
ISBN: 0-8014-8468-5
Added to Catalog: 5/8/98
WIRT: 55534234
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Features: Table of Contents, Index, Footnotes, Photos
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Credibility
5
Very High |
Research Value
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Very High |
Cultural Interest
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Very High |
Visual Information
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Moderate |
Style
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Stylish |
Silliness
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Wow Factor
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Bargain
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A serious academic work on the sociology of UFO and conspiracy
claims in the modern U.S.
Rich with references.
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From the Book Cover
Aliens have invaded the United States. No longer
confined to science fiction and tabloids, aliens
appear in The New York Times, The Washington Post,
and The Wall Street Journal, at candy counters (in
chocolate covered flying saucers and as Martian
melon-flavored lollipops) and on the Internet.
Aliens are at the center of a faculty battle at
Harvard. They have been used to market AT&T
cellular phones, Milky Way candy bars, Kodak film,
Diet Coke, Stove Top stuffing, skateboard
accessories, and abduction insurance. A Gallup
Poll says that 27 percent of American believe
space aliens have visited Earth. A Time/CNN poll
says 80 percent of its respondent believe the U.S.
government is covering up its knowledge of the
existence of aliens. Sixty-five percent believe a
UFO crashed in Roswell in 1947.
In a provocative and sophisticated analysis of
public culture and popular concerns, Jodi Dean
examines how serious UFO-logists and their
pop-culture counterparts tap into fundamental
phobias, paranoia, conspiracy theories, and mass
skepticism of the public sphere. What does the
widespread American belief in extraterrestrials
say about our society? How common are our
assumptions about what is real? Is there any such
thing as "common sense"?
Aliens, the author shows, provide cultural icons
through which to access the conditions of
democratic politics at the millennium. The
technological complexity of our age has created a
situation where political choices and decisions
are virtually meaningless, practically impossible.
How do we judge what is real, believable,
trustworthy, or authoritative? When the truth is
out there, but we can trust no one, Dean argues,
paranoia is indeed the most sensible response.
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