- Taschenbuch: 256 Seiten
- Verlag: Cornell Univ Pr (April 1998)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0801484685
- ISBN-13: 978-0801484681
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 15,2 x 1,7 x 22,9 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 2.8 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (11 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.112.851 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Is paranoia the defining feature of American life at the close of the 20th century? Jodi Dean thinks so, and she doesn't think we should be too worried about it. Aliens in America is her attempt to map the role of conspiracy theories in society, and although the book sometimes has problems negotiating the fine line between academic and popular discourse, it provides some fascinating insights. Dean suggests that paranoia is the only possible response to a fragmented culture. Multiplying TV channels and the publishing free-for-all of the Internet provide so many points of view, so many opportunities for contradictory meanings to coexist that "there isn't enough common reality to justify judgement." In the face of this info-maelstrom, conspiracy theorists and alien abductees are actively creating their own meanings, piecing together an ideology from the mass of unverifiable "facts." For Dean, these creative acts are powerful, positive engagements with the world as it has become, contrasting sharply with the attitudes of those who are trying to hang on to a vanished consensus. By bringing the apparatus of cultural theory to bear on this subject, Dean gives a provocative new interpretation of our premillennium tension. --Simon Leake
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Aliens have invaded the United States. No longer confined to science fiction and tabloids, aliens appear in the "New York Times", "Washington Post" and "Wall Street Journal", at sweet counters (in chocolate-covered flying saucers and Martian melon-flavoured lollipops) and on Internet web sites. Aliens are at the centre of a faculty battle at Harvard. They have been used to market AT&T, cellular phones, Milky Way chocolate bars, Kodak film, Diet Coke, skateboard accessories and abduction insurance. A Gallup poll reports that 27 percent of Americans believe space aliens have visited Earth. A "Time"/CNN poll finds 80 percent of its respondents believe the US government is covering up knowledge of the existence of aliens. In a provocative analysis of public culture and popular concerns, Jodi Dean examines how serious UFO-logists and their pop-culture counterparts tap into fears, phobias and conspiracy theories with a deep past and a vivid present in American society. What does the widespread American belief in extraterrestrials say about the public sphere? How common are our assumptions about what is real? Is there any such thing as "common" sense?Aliens, the author asserts, provide cultural icons through which to access the new conditions of democratic politics at the millennium. Because of the technological complexity of our age, political choices and decisions have become 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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Excellent! Possibly the only book on the subject to seriously examine what popular interest in this subject actually says about our world. This book is not about arcana; if you're looking for new tales of crashed saucers or big-eyed Pleadians, look elsewhere. Instead, the author sheds light on questions of evidence, real government conspiracies, "plausible denial", perceptions of reality, witness veracity, televisuality, UFOs, etc., and challenges the reader to define exactly what is the "consensus reality". The chapter on the role of women during the U.S. space program and the "citizen witness" is by itself worth the price of admission. The freshest look at this topic in years.
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Filled with bizarre generalizations, and the most pretentious phraseology I've seen in years, this book has the dubious honor of spotlighting all that has gone wrong in academic research in this country in the last 20 years. Jodi Dean shows an appalling lack of understanding of the workings of culture, history, politics, or even writing style. It seems she should have spent more time with Turabian's Manual for Writers, than surfing the web or watching Sienfeld.
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As 1 of only 2 books on UFOs ever published by an academic press (the other being David Jacobs' UFO Controversy in America), this work brings the topic into the Ivy League: to the Cornell Univ. Press. Driven seekers of "THE UFO TRUTH" beware, this is not yet another book attempting to research and reveal the truth of UFOs, but a scholarly, critical analysis of the topic within the context of modern American sociology, psychology, political science and media (particularly Internet) studies. What most distinguishes it from other "cultural context" efforts is Ms. Dean's (QUITE solitary) respectful, non-dismissive treatment of her fellow citizen-observers, and the sharp comparision of the generally-private abduction experience to the televised theatrics of the space race. WHY she doesn't join the dismissive academic/media/"expert" mob is not revealed. Readers without personal exposure to the phenomena (who are ignorant of their ignorance) may simply join the mob by dismissing Ms. Dean analysis because it is devoid of judgementalism or the media's desperate search for the freakish at whom we can self-assuredly laugh.
The language is academic & the sentences long, but the complex concepts are expressed with clarity. The background UFO data is invisible (as other Amazon.com reviewers comment), but to readers fully educated in this topic, that would obviously multiply the book's size by a factor of 100 and repeat material available elsewhere. The last third of the book drags a bit and the illustrations are irrelevant and poorly chosen.
However, this has made my short list of "must read" UFO books, alongside those by Budd Hopkins and David Jacobs, Tim Good, Nick Pope, Stan Friedman, and the hilarious Out There by Pulitzer prize nominee and former NY Times reporter Howard Blum.
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a sad commentary on the state of academic scholarship
That this poor book was published by what I thought was a respectable press is bad enough, but then to see the effect that this book has had on some other academics and students... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 1. November 1999 veröffentlicht
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Those who speak rarely understand what they read
It seems,after reading the book, having Jodi Dean as a professor, and taking more than 1 theory class, that most negative criticisms of this book come from those who are clueless. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 31. Mai 1999 veröffentlicht
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a scam?
This book purports to study the relation betwen epistemology and technology, but only manages to stutter a few inanities about postmodern skepticism and the information age. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 23. Februar 1999 veröffentlicht
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Is this secretly a satire on modern American scholarship????
Was this book written on April Fool's Day? I mean, it is such a perfect example of bad scholarship, it can't have been done seriously. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 10. Februar 1999 veröffentlicht
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An Important and Provocative Book
This book analyses critically the implications of mediated America for democracy in America. Dean complements her earlier work on the theory of discursive democracy by starting... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 1. Dezember 1998 veröffentlicht
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A wake-up call to those who would control the way we think.
Aliens in America is a must read! Jodi Dean exposes the hypocrisy of non-reflective science and so-called objectivism. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 19. September 1998 veröffentlicht
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Beyond every other criticism Dean's book is badly researched
Dean's attempt to contextualise America's post-war devotion to aliens appears to be a calculated effort to cash-in on a fashionable subject. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 2. September 1998 veröffentlicht
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cultural studies at its worst
This book only incites those who have bashed the work of postmodernists and cultural studies scholars. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 15. August 1998 veröffentlicht
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