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Technologies for Intuition: Cold War Circles and Telepathic Rays
Alaina Lemon
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Description for Technologies for Intuition: Cold War Circles and Telepathic Rays
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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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Number of Pages
309
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520294288
SKU
V9780520294288
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About Alaina Lemon
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.
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