Contents

List of Illustrations

Prologue: Cold War, Contact, and Ethnography

1DO WE HAVE CONTACT?

2ENERGY AND EXTRASENSATION

3PHATIC EVOLUTION: RACE AND GEOPOLITICS

4CIRCLES, RAYS, CHANNELS

5DIVIDING INTUITION, ORGANIZING ATTENTION

6TEXTUAL ENCHANTMENT AND INTERDISCURSIVE LABOR

7INTUITION AND RUPTURE

8RENEGADE CHANNELS AND FRAME TROUBLES

Acknowledgments