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This volume shows how alien stories represent and articulate issues
of otherness in America's post-war technocratic society. Reading
the texts that are constitutive of alien myth, the book explains
how the political condition of post-war America is encoded at the
level of popular culture. An analysis of America's consumer culture
suggests that the consumption of alien myth is comparable with the
technical and bureaucratic rationality of the American political
order. By expanding this examination of the relationship between
technology and myth, the study shows how during the age of
technologocentrism the double-strategy constituted by the pursuit
of consumption and the objectification of the alien other leads the
dominant order toward a temporary communion with the technological
system. As such, the commodity tranquilizes the centre's
capital-anxiety (the panic caused by the machine's ability to both
bestow being and cause non-being) and understand the permanent
state of lack that is highlighted by both the form and content of
the narratives described by alien myth.
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