Posthuman Blues

On the Aesthetics of Ufology (excerpted from an interview with M.A. Greenstein) by Mike Kelley

"Ufology pictures an aesthetic collision between a housing structure, the UFO, and an alien element that inhabits this house, in an uncommon aesthetic mixture of the abject and the technological. In the Nineteen-Forties, the Wartime framework of the original UFO sightings rendered the technological aspects of the UFO, itself, frightening. UFOs were feared as possible examples of unknown enemy military technology. This concern has faded over time and the technological aspects of the UFO have taken on a different symbolic meaning. The clean, orderly, and machinic nature of the UFO now acts as a foil for the menacing, unformed, beings that it contains. It is only this, essentially dramatic, pairing that I would say constitutes the 'grotesque' in relation to ufology."

(Thanks to Sauceruney.)