{"product_id":"aliens-in-america-jodi-dean-9780801434631","title":"Aliens in America","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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. Aliens, the author shows, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAliens have invaded the United States. No longer confined to science fiction and tabloids, aliens appear in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, at candy counters (in chocolate-covered flying saucers and Martian melon-flavored lollipops), and on Internet web sites. Aliens are at the center of a faculty battle at Harvard. They have been used to market AT\u0026amp;T cellular phones, Milky Way candy bars, Kodak film, Diet Coke, Stove-Top Stuffing, 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 U.S. government is covering up knowledge of the existence of aliens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jodi Dean\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801434637\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801434631\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/17\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.31h x 6.24w x 0.86d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/02\/1998 pg. 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/1998 pg. 113\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/15\/1998 pg. 1399\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/09\/1998 pg. 10","brand":"Jodi Dean","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48216507252991,"sku":"9780801434631","price":145.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_988c4fca-133b-480d-8f77-ac679223bb72.jpg?v=1771991463","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/aliens-in-america-jodi-dean-9780801434631","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}