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Book Synopsis
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.

Table of Contents
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

Technologies for Intuition Cold War Circles and

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 10/11/2017
      ISBN13: 9780520294288, 978-0520294288
      ISBN10: 0520294289

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      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

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