Technologies for Intuition

Cold War Circles and Telepathic Rays

Alaina Lemon (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

309 Seiten

2017
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-29428-8 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

Since the Cold War, Americans and Russians alike have cultivated a special fascination with the workings and failures of communication. This book explores the ways in which people hone techniques to discern and describe channels and contacts, including those that seem weak and failed, or blocked and invisible.

Since the Cold War, Americans and Russians alike have cultivated a special fascination with the workings and failures of communication. Each has accused the other of media jamming and propaganda, posed competing claims to expression and creativity, and even released mirroring rumors of telepathic connections and interstellar contacts. Technologies for Intuition explores the ways in which people hone techniques to discern and describe channels and contacts, including those that seem weak and failed, or blocked and invisible. Specifically, it explores stagings of communicative "energy" through paranormal experiments in telepathy, drills to build theatrical empathy, and other phenomena. The author examines settings where media and performance professionals encounter neophytes, where insiders mix with foreigners, and where skeptics debate naifs. Moving back and forth across geopolitical borders, the book shows how the phenomena at hand have developed through historical events and relations, in conflict and in conversation.
The author suggests that Cold War preoccupations and strategies have marked theoretical models of communication and mediation, even while infusing everyday, practical technologies for intuition.

Alaina Lemon is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. Her first book, Between Two Fires: Gypsy Performance and Romani Memory from Pushkin to Post-Socialism, received the Wayne S. Vucinich and Heldt book prizes.

List of Illustrations
Prologue: Cold War, Contact, and Ethnography

Introduction
1 Do We Have Contact?
2 Energy and Extrasensation
3 Phatic Evolution: Race and Geopolitics
4 Circles, Rays, Channels
5 Dividing Intuition, Organizing Attention
6 Textual Enchantment and Interdiscursive Labor
7 Intuition and Rupture
8 Renegade Channels and Frame Troubles
Afterword

Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	29.01.2018
Zusatzinfo	18 b-w
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-29428-9 / 0520294289
ISBN-13	978-0-520-29428-8 / 9780520294288
Zustand	Neuware