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Book Hook: Alien Invasion!

by Rachel Simkover

 

I am sure that everyone had their fair share of Halloween activities this past weekend, so instead of a supernatural booklist, I have decided to go extraterrestrial. Maybe you are bored with, disappointed in, or ambivalent towards this planet, so this week’s list will at the outset take you elsewhere, but these selections will ultimately bring you back to Earth in order to reflect on what is happening down here.

Do aliens have the same problems we do?

Alien Nation(2006) is a catalogue for a show of the same name organized by London’s Institute for Contemporary Art that addresses the relationships between science fiction, race, and contemporary art. The twelve international artists chosen for the exhibit use the language of science fiction as a metaphor for ‘otherness’ and the threat of the outsider. In addition to the documentation of artworks, sci-fi film posters and film stills are interspersed throughout the book, extending the mingling of fiction and fact. (available at Archive Kabinett)

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Book Hook: Alien Invasion!