Jodi Dean is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She is the author of Solidarity of Strangers: Feminism after Identity Politics.

"Do words like 'truth' and 'authority' mean anything when no one agrees how, much less whom, to believe? Writing spry, acerbic prose . . . Dean guides her readers soberly through strange terrain in which rationality itself gets upended: in view of radiation experiments on developmentally disabled patients and the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, is it more sensible to credit a government in cahoots with alien beings, or not to? . . . Dean compellingly traces our national loss of faith in formerly attractive notions like outer space and the 'Final Frontier.' . . . No reader will leave this intriguing book without pondering the unavoidable question she raises: 'What happens to our everyday approaches to truth when reality isn't?'"—Publishers Weekly

Jodi Dean is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She is the author of Solidarity of Strangers: Feminism after Identity Politics.

"Do words like 'truth' and 'authority' mean anything when no one agrees how, much less whom, to believe? Writing spry, acerbic prose . . . Dean guides her readers soberly through strange terrain in which rationality itself gets upended: in view of radiation experiments on developmentally disabled patients and the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, is it more sensible to credit a government in cahoots with alien beings, or not to? . . . Dean compellingly traces our national loss of faith in formerly attractive notions like outer space and the 'Final Frontier.' . . . No reader will leave this intriguing book without pondering the unavoidable question she raises: 'What happens to our everyday approaches to truth when reality isn't?'"—Publishers Weekly

Jodi Dean is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She is the author of Solidarity of Strangers: Feminism after Identity Politics.

"Do words like 'truth' and 'authority' mean anything when no one agrees how, much less whom, to believe? Writing spry, acerbic prose . . . Dean guides her readers soberly through strange terrain in which rationality itself gets upended: in view of radiation experiments on developmentally disabled patients and the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, is it more sensible to credit a government in cahoots with alien beings, or not to? . . . Dean compellingly traces our national loss of faith in formerly attractive notions like outer space and the 'Final Frontier.' . . . No reader will leave this intriguing book without pondering the unavoidable question she raises: 'What happens to our everyday approaches to truth when reality isn't?'"—Publishers Weekly