TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lemon,Alaina
TI  - Technologies for intuition: Cold War circles and telegraphic rays 
SN  - 9780520967458
AV  - BF1171 .T434 2018
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Oakland, California
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Telepathy
KW  - Paranoia
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Cold War
KW  - Influence
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Do we have contact? --; Energy and extra-sensation --; Phatic evolution : race and geopolitics --; Circles, rays, channels --; Dividing intuition, organizing attention --; Join and separate --; Intuition and rupture --; Renegade channels and frame trouble --; Afterword : eat your salt; 2; b
N2  - "Cold War paranoia can only partly describe or explain the 20th century dreams of telepathy. The nightmare shades of mind control and crowd frenzy have long alternated with the pastels of love and collective effervescence. Both extremes materialized over time, along tangled circuits of wars, events and interactions staged across borders since at least the 19th century. The Cold War and its fences fed fascination with the workings and the failures of contact and communication. Opposed sides accused each other of jamming media and spinning propaganda even while they mirrored fantasies of connection. This book contrasts and connects Russian and American channels and means to check channels, with special attention to intersections of the telepathic with the theatrical. It theorizes links between historically layered struggles over technologies for intuition and dominant models of communication, commonsense or theoretical. It demonstrates that theories resting on models of individual sincerity and of dyadic communication warp understandings of the USSR and Russia--and thus of the USA, as well. It proposes that attention to the means of making and checking contact, that is, to the phatic functions in language, offers a way out of the impasses and paradoxes of paranoia"--Provided by publisher
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