Lepselter’s text is a magisterial enactment of the thing that it is ultimately about: American weirdness.
Abduction as abduction
UFOs
Openings and flashes: A reply to Shelton and Sornito
Here are two intensely original essays in distinct voices and registers that also repeatedly intersect. Reading Christina Sornito and Allen…
Modern flashiness: A method
Of her informants from the Hillview UFO Experiencers group to the Little A’Le’Inn, Lepselter writes, “[Y]ou don’t need a Christian…
Open Sky (after Paul Virilio)
After Trump was elected president it felt like the sky had turned to iron with nothing but smudgy glass portals…
Proximate enigmas
I’m delighted—and daunted!—for this chance at engaging the rich discussions of this forum. Nothing I say in this short space…
The glowing aura of an impossible elsewhere
In this moment of unbearable precariousness, what does it mean to turn one’s face away from the only this of…