Technologies for Intuition (eBook)

Cold War Circles and Telepathic Rays

Alaina Lemon (Autor)

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2017
309 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96745-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Since the Cold War, Americans and Russians have together cultivated fascination with the workings and failures of communicative channels. Each accuses the other of media jamming and propaganda, and each proclaims its own communication practices better for expression and creativity. Technologies for Intuitiontheorizes phaticitythe processes by which people make, check, discern, or describe channels and contacts, judging them weak or strong, blocked or open. This historical ethnography of intuition juxtaposes telepathy experiments and theatrical empathy drills, passing through settings where media and performance professionals encounter neophytes, where locals open channels with foreigners, and where skeptics of contact debate naifs. Tacking across geopolitical borders, the book demonstrates how contact and channel shift in significance over time, through events and political relations, in social 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.

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.11.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: America • American History • Anthropology • Cold War • COLD WAR HISTORY • Cold War propaganda • Communication • communication failure • Empathy • empathy drills • ethnography • geopolitical borders • Global History • international • Intuition • Linguistics • media • Mediation • Performance • political relations • Politics • Propaganda • relationship with russia • Russia • Russian History • social conflict • Social Science • Technology • telepathy
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96745-3 / 0520967453
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96745-8 / 9780520967458