Download or read book Visions of Invasion written by Michael Lechuga and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2023-03-02 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visions of Invasion: Alien Affects, Cinema, and Citizenship in Settler Colonies explores how the US government mobilizes media and surveillance technologies to operate a highly networked, multidimensional system for controlling migrants. Author Michael Lechuga focuses on three arenas where a citizenship control assemblage manufactures alienhood: Hollywood extraterrestrial invasion film, federal antimigration and border security legislation, and various immigration enforcement protocols implemented along the Mexico–United States border. Building on rhetorical studies, settler colonial studies, and media studies, Visions of Invasion offers a glimpse at how the processes of alien-making contribute to an ongoing settler colonial project in the US. Lechuga demonstrates that popular films—The War of the Worlds, Predator, Men in Black, and more—participate in the production of migrants as subjective terrorists, felons, and other noncitizen personae vilified in public discourse. Beyond just tracing how alien invasion narratives circulate in popular media, Lechuga describes how the logics motivating early US colonists materialize in both the US’s citizenship control policy and in some of the country’s most popular texts. Beneath each of the film franchises and antimigrant political expressions described in Visions of Invasion lies an anxious colonial logic in which the settler way of life is seemingly threated by false narratives of imminent invasion from abroad. The volume offers a deep dive into how the rhetorical figure of the alien has been manufactured as a political subjectivity, one that plays out the anxieties, guilts, and fears of colonialism in today’s science fiction landscape.
Download or read book Visions of Invasion written by Michael Lechuga and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2023-03-02 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visions of Invasion: Alien Affects, Cinema, and Citizenship in Settler Colonies explores how the US government mobilizes media and surveillance technologies to operate a highly networked, multidimensional system for controlling migrants. Author Michael Lechuga focuses on three arenas where a citizenship control assemblage manufactures alienhood: Hollywood extraterrestrial invasion film, federal antimigration and border security legislation, and various immigration enforcement protocols implemented along the Mexico–United States border. Building on rhetorical studies, settler colonial studies, and media studies, Visions of Invasion offers a glimpse at how the processes of alien-making contribute to an ongoing settler colonial project in the US. Lechuga demonstrates that popular films—The War of the Worlds, Predator, Men in Black, and more—participate in the production of migrants as subjective terrorists, felons, and other noncitizen personae vilified in public discourse. Beyond just tracing how alien invasion narratives circulate in popular media, Lechuga describes how the logics motivating early US colonists materialize in both the US’s citizenship control policy and in some of the country’s most popular texts. Beneath each of the film franchises and antimigrant political expressions described in Visions of Invasion lies an anxious colonial logic in which the settler way of life is seemingly threated by false narratives of imminent invasion from abroad. The volume offers a deep dive into how the rhetorical figure of the alien has been manufactured as a political subjectivity, one that plays out the anxieties, guilts, and fears of colonialism in today’s science fiction landscape.
Download or read book My Vision of the Red Invasion written by Pearl Ballew Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author recounts a vision she had of Russian Communists invading the United States and Canada. Included are the notarized statements of two people who witnessed her vision-trance.
Download or read book Warnings From Heaven written by Louis Nicolosi and published by WestBowPress. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warnings from Heaven was written to open one of God’s windows into the future and reveal to humanity things to come. It serves to encourage and help in preparing people and nations for the coming of the Lord Jesus. Visions of heaven, hell, and national conflicts are disclosed as warnings to humanity for what awaits those who reject the Lord Jesus. It is not the will of God that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. Time’s clock is fast approaching an alarm, and eternity rides hastily to meet it. Warnings from Heaven trumpets one resounding cry: be ready!
Download or read book Warnings from Heaven written by Louis Nicolosi and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warnings from Heaven was written to open one of God's windows into the future and reveal to humanity things to come. It serves to encourage and help in preparing people and nations for the coming of the Lord Jesus. Visions of heaven, hell, and national conflicts are disclosed as warnings to humanity for what awaits those who reject the Lord Jesus. It is not the will of God that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. Time's clock is fast approaching an alarm, and eternity rides hastily to meet it. Warnings from Heaven trumpets one resounding cry: be ready!
Download or read book The Alien Fast Food War Book 1 of Visions of Jupiter written by Tilly Jupiter and published by Boruma Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-08 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When remote-controlled aircraft begin behaving erratically, even crashing, there is only one logical explanation – well, there are only two: aliens or your own government. The real shock is finding the signals are coming from people who've eaten at fast food restaurants. Of course, we've known all along the stuff in unhealthy. But this? ~~~~~ Excerpt ~~~~~ The aliens started small, buying up a few eateries in malls and some coffee shops. And then they expanded, just as the Asians had before them—but neither education nor commerce was the goal this time. They wanted knowledge, but not the kind that came from schools. “We knew your history, but didn’t know shit about what makes you humans tick,” was what Bernie said. It didn't take long for them to recognize that we had no idea what made us tick either, so they set out to blaze new trails in understanding peoplekind. Fast food places provided them with two significant tools for this task: First, humans went there in droves. "You can't beat them away with a stick," was how Bernie put it. Once they were there, they could be observed in their natural habitat, as it were. This nicely brought the subjects needed for the aliens’ field studies right to them. Secondly, we ingested, rather indiscriminately a variety of substances passing for food. The aliens developed their protein-based nanosensors and fed them to us. Who knew? The damn things moved into our bloodstreams, analyzing as they went. “We wanted to get to the heart of the matter,” was the way Doreen put it; I think she was unaware of the implied pun, so we forgave her. Hungry for data, they continued buying up fast food places, served nanosensors and observed us. We ate the food and the sensors, which transmitted back to data collectors that did some elementary preprocessing and relayed compressed data to, as I’ve said, Omaha. Now I doubt anyone would have objected to this somewhat symbiotic turn of events. After all, the aliens had a vested interest in keeping the prices of their burgers and fries reasonable, because that kept our patronage up. Maybe once they had collected enough data they might have turned their attention to maximizing profits, but for the time being it worked for everyone. I suppose, if they'd known, the government would have a different view. In fact, after it was all over, Homeland Security was rather pissed. They were pissed at us because we hadn’t reported our conversations with the “Alien Invaders” to the responsible authorities, whatever that term might mean. I asked who I should've reported to but didn't get a straight answer. I admit that this probably did constitute an invasion of some sort, or a precursor to one. But, as I told the stony-faced Homeland Security lady, I was hired as a consultant; my clients wanted me to help deal with whoever was causing their problem. The fact that they turned out to be aliens was just not relevant in any meaningful way. Not to me, anyway. I had neglected to insert a clause that would pay a bonus for dealing with aliens in my contract. One thing I learned in working for the model airplane folks is that messing with the geeks is folly. If you doubt me, the way the war unfolded provides a textbook case, if one is needed. Think about it. Suppose you are a person who spends some monstrous amount of time and money building a model plane that looks, say, exactly like a Sopwith Camel. You fly it for a few minutes and it is brilliant. Suddenly it turns upside down, which looks rather cool if you planned that to happen and rather spooky if you didn’t, and then it drops like a stone. Well, like a stone with wings, I suppose.
Download or read book War of the Worlds written by H G Wells and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-10 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fables devised by H.G. Wells (1866-1946), one of the fathers, perhaps the most notable, of science fiction, have demonstrated over time to maintain a vigor and touch some springs of the human unconscious that have often elevated them to icons of the modern world . The War of the Worlds (1898), a fast-paced story that narrates the invasion of Earth by the Martians and that for the first time involved the irruption of beings from other planets in ours, largely marked the fantasy of the 20th century and opened a The reef -that of the contact of men with extraterrestrial beings- which soon became one of the most important in science fiction, serving as inspiration to many later artists in the fields of radio, cinema, literature, and comics. and television.
Download or read book The Alien Invasion written by William Henry Wilkins and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Invasion written by Sean Platt and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THEY ARE COMING. THE COUNTDOWN HAS BEGUN. First visible only as blips on a telescope image, the discovery of objects approaching from Jupiter orbit immediately sets humanity on edge. NASA doesn't even bother to deny the alien ships' existence. The popular Astral space app (broadcasting from the far side of the moon and accessible by anyone with internet) has already shown the populace what is coming. So the news has turned from evasion to triage, urging calm and offering the few facts they have: The objects are enormous, perfectly round spheres numbering in the dozens, maybe hundreds. They are on an approach vector for Earth. And they will arrive in six days. Fear simmers. Meyer Dempsey - mogul, wealthy entrepreneur, arrogant and always in charge - is in New York, on the phone with his ex-wife in LA when the news breaks. He can hear tension in the voices of reporters and experts chronicling all that's known and unknown. But even while those supposedly in charge restrain their own panic, Meyer finds he recognizes bits and pieces of what the world is facing. He's seen this in dreams - in visions of another place. He knows where he and his family must go. He has prepared ... though he never knew until now what he'd been preparing for. He knows only they cannot hesitate. They must run to their safe haven in the Colorado mountains. Now. Before society shatters into chaos, and it all falls apart. Fear rises. Meyer has been taking steps for months, and has made preparations: a trove of supplies, a van stocked for the worst, a Gulfstream waiting at a small airstrip in Jersey. But he hasn't yet been able to take the final and most important step: moving the family to Colorado, where every contingency is covered. The networks stay on-air longer than expected, creating a farce of calm. But those with means have already begun to scramble as Meyer gathers his wife Piper and his two teenage children and begins their race toward that compound, toward safety. There is no time for hesitation, regret, or pity. Soon, pundits begin to ask questions hard enough to tip those who've thus far stayed calm out of their complacency, inciting chaos: What do the beings inside the ships want? What will they do when they arrive? And what if the scientists are wrong, and the spheres aren't decelerating? Will they strike the planet, raising clouds of extinction dust? Will they knock the Earth off its axis? Is this a prelude to an alien invasion? An alien war? An alien apocalypse? The first domino in the birth of a new alien empire? Fear erupts. Panic, once it breaches the thin crust of civilized society, spreads like a virus. Meyer knows only one thing, and it's a truth that has perched atop his mind like a psychic obsession: When the ships arrive, his family must be at the Colorado compound or all will be lost. The space fleet in itself doesn't matter. The disintegration on the surviving news outlets does not matter. Reports that Las Vegas has been set ablaze do not matter. The fate of humanity, in Meyer's eyes, doesn't matter. All that matters is Piper. Trevor. Delilah. And Meyer's ex-wife Heather, coming to the same destination from the west - a woman who remains his best friend, and his secret lover. Rioting spills into the highways as time ticks away. Unrest boils in both city and hinterlands. But Meyer's obsession to reach Vail is single-minded, guided with the focus of a far-seeing nightmare. Gangs can ground his plane, threaten his vehicles, and steal his belongings. But nothing will stand between Meyer's family and their haven ... and Meyer...
Download or read book Visions of the Apocalypse written by Wheeler W. Dixon and published by Wallflower Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Visions of the Apocalypse' examines the cinema's fascination with the prospect of nuclear and/or natural annihilation, as seen in such films as We Were Soldiers, The Last War and Tidal Wave. Dixon also discusses such topics as the death of film itself, to be replaced by digital video.
Download or read book Dante s War written by Paul Nevins and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-02-20 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An alien invasion is imminent and only you know it is going to happen. You have been having dreams. They show you the future. You know they aren't merely dreams, but a warning. You try to tell people, but no one believes you. You are committed against your will, and after seventy-two hours of psychiatric evaluation you are released. Forty-eight hours later the invasion begins. What would you do? Dante Mason did the only thing he could do, he fought back.
Download or read book The True Meaning of Smekday written by Adam Rex and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2015-02-04 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hilarious, genre-bending novel from bestselling author Adam rex that inspired the blockbuster feature film Home -- fully illustrated with "photos," drawings, newspaper clippings, and comics sequences. When twelve-year-old Gratuity ("Tip") Tucci is assigned to write five pages on "The True Meaning of Smekday" for the National Time Capsule contest, she's not sure where to begin; when her mom started telling everyone about the messages aliens were sending through a mole on the back of her neck? Maybe on Christmas Eve, when huge bizarre spaceships descended on Earth and the aliens -- called Boov -- abducted her mother? Or when the Boov declared Earth a colony, renamed it "Smekland" (in honor of glorious Captain Smek), and forced all Americans to relocate to Florida via rocketpod? In any case, Gratuity's story is much, much bigger than the assignment. It involves her unlikely friendship with a renegade Boov mechanic named J.Lo; a futile journey south to find Gratuity's mother at the Happy Mouse Kingdom; a cross-country road trip in a hovercar called Slushious; and an outrageous plan to save the Earth from yet another alien invasion.
Download or read book Visions of Glory written by John M. Pontius and published by CFI. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Liberal Invasion of Red State America written by Kristin B. Tate and published by Regnery. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Refugees from high-tax Massachusetts turned New Hampshire blue. Democratic voters from Yankee states are swamping Tennessee and Georgia. Government employees and refugees from Maryland have turned Virginia from a conservative Southern state into left-leaning Democrat territory. Escapees from California have transformed Colorado, and they’re aiming for Texas next. One state after another is turning from red to purple to blue. America is being radically changes by people leaving blue states for better living conditions and opportunities in red states—only to import to their new homes the very policies that created the misery they fled from in the first place. The direction of the change is undeniable: • A 2019 poll found that 53 percent of residents are considering leaving California on account of the exorbitant cost of living • From 2008-2018, Houston's population surged more than 15 percent, and the top metro areas of origin for those new Texas residents were Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago • Migration from blue states is changing the Texas electorate: between 2010 and 2018, votes for Democrats went up 50 percent, while Republican votes increased by just 10 percent • Boom is turning to bust in cities like Denver, as hip blue state refugees to red states raise the cost of living by voting in liberal policies The liberal invasion of the conservative states is having major impacts on our elections, our economy, and our standard of living. And yet few Americans are even aware of the trend, and fewer still have any idea of the significant implications for the future of the United States. Now, in The Liberal Invasion of Red State America, indefatigable reporter Kristin Tate delves into the data, lays out the astonishing statistics, and explores the likely consequences of this under-the-radar trend. If you want to understand the movement that is reshaping our country, read this groundbreaking book.
Download or read book The Dream Factor written by Apostle Brian L Carroll and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-08-11 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This, thought-provoking book written by Apostle Brian Carroll is a timely work that brings a breath of fresh air to the priesthood of believers. This book will help any believer obtain a greater understand of the communication channel of dreams and visions.The author's ability to engage the reader through addressing much of the common misconceptions relative to dreams and visions will not only provide clarity but also challenge the reader to pursue further revelation on the subject matter.
Download or read book Supernatural Invasion written by Carlos Turner and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. C. A. Turner, the author of this book, has a vision for God's people:"God has given us the dominion, power, and authority to maintain the flow and function of the earthly realm. clear we have allowed the enemy to rob us of that dominion by not staying in alignment with the Word, will, and ways of God! That's why evil has become a stronghold in the earth because it's time for the people of God to take back their rightful place. Hallelujah! There's getting ready to be a supernatural invasion that will hit the earthly realm in a mighty way. I can sense a spiritual awakening unfolding. The earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord, and many shall be healed, delivered, and set free!"In this book, Dr. Turner explores the supernatural power that God has bestowed upon His chosen and endeavors to motivate us all to take hold of it.
Download or read book Re visions 07 written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
