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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...

This book brings together key essays from the career of social theorist John O’Neill, including his uncollected later writings, focusing on embodiment to explore the different ways in which the body trope informs visions of familial, economic, personal, and communal life. Beginning with an exploration of O’Neill’s work on the construction of the biobody and the ways in which corporeality is sutured into social systems through regimes of power and familial socialisation, the book then moves to concentrate on O’Neill’s career-long studies of the productive body and the ways in which...