REALL 2006 V14N06

Reviewed by Martin S. Kottmeyer Mark Featherstone, Knowledge and the Production of Nonknowledge: An Exploration of Alien Mythology in Post-War America Hampton Press, 2002 Uh-oh. Postmodernism has found ufology. Featherstone's book depends on the authorities of Foucault, Derrida, Baudrillard, Haraway

Gleanings ............................................................................... 6 evaporate - the idea that ufos were surveying the planet in advance of a Landing has diminished in favor of the hybrid program idea. But it was not miming God when it did so that I am aware of. Fifties contac

arose. Didn't contactees always mime God while growing and flourishing in its heyday? What about the ancient astronaut craze of the 70s. Erich von Daniken's Chariots of the Gods spawned dozens of books with Gods in the title that went beyond went well beyond science discipleship. Some would say it s

this submyth's cultural trajectory? Featherstone provides no example of an evaporated submyth, so what is one to make of such a statement? Here's another passage, a dense clump of words: However, when decoded alien myths explain dominant class anxiety because the form of two mythological levels - po

However, when decoded alien myths explain dominant class anxiety because the form of two mythological levels - political myths as encoded projections of the dominant centre's technological anxiety, and popular myths as encoded de-ciphers of the political myths - is structurally related to the transc

dominant class anxiety because the form of two mythological levels - political myths as encoded projections of the dominant centre's technological anxiety, and popular myths as encoded de-ciphers of the political myths - is structurally related to the transcendental technological level. Moreover, wh