About the author
Alaina Lemon is a cultural and linguistic anthropologist known for Technologies for Intuition: Cold War Circles and Telepathic Rays, published by the University of California Press in 2017. The book examines how Americans and Soviet Russians, across the Cold War and after, each accused the other of propaganda and media manipulation while cultivating their own fascination with telepathy, psychic research, and the technologies of communication more broadly. Lemon's earlier scholarship focused on Russia and Roma communities, and Technologies for Intuition continues that interest in how belief, performance, and state power intersect, reading psychic and paranormal claims as part of a wider history of communication and propaganda rather than taking them at face value. The book is aimed at readers interested in the anthropology and history of Cold War science, media, and belief, and it is catalogued here under occult philosophy for its subject matter rather than as an occult practice manual.
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“Lemon provides a rigorous academic exploration of how telepathy and intuitive technologies were weaponized during the Cold War. While intellectually stimulating for historians of science and esotericism, this book may not suit…”
Esoterica Books editorial team, Occult literature desk · on Technologies for Intuition: Cold War Circles and Telepathic Rays
“Lemon’s ethnography is a rigorous academic exercise that may alienate casual enthusiasts seeking practical psychic guidance or simple historical narratives. The text demands patience, focusing heavily on the mechanics of…”
Esoterica Books editorial team, Occult literature desk · on Technologies for Intuition: Cold War Circles and Telepathic Rays
