Index

Figures are indicated by page numbers followed by fig. and notes are indicated by page numbers followed by n.

acting: agents in, 232; attention and, 143–150, 174, 183; awareness in, 185; biomechanical training and, 185; bodily movement in, 59, 173–75; circles of attention and, 144–47; connections and, 167–68, 172; contact in, 1–2, 173, 181; credentials and, 128; details in, 127; directors and, 177–78, 180–81; drills for, 68; gaze in, 63–64; gestural training in, 58, 143; influence of, 9–10; limits of, 21; Method, 9, 70–72; micro-expressions, 58; participation frameworks in, 143; perception in, 57; play in, 156; psychophysical energy in, 59–63; sensation in, 58, 60, 64; technologies for intuition in, 2; telepathy and, 7, 24; temporitm (temporhythms), 60–62. See also Russian Academy for the Theatrical Arts (GITIS)

affective memory, 71

All-Russian Exhibition Center, 236fig.

Amazing World of Kreskin! The, 12, 40

America’s Psychic Challenge, 13–14

anachronistic interdiscursivity, 166

Andromeda Nebula (Efremov), 86, 104

animation, 192–96

antirealism, 207

antitheatricality, 205–7

Arendt, Hannah, 206

Aristotle, 181

Army Medical Intelligence and Information Agency, 7

Asad, Talal, 136

Atlas Shrugged (Rand), 80

attention: avoiding, 130–32; being seen and, 121–23; channeling, 148–150; circles of, 143–150, 212; organizing, 150; sensory, 174

audience, 186, 207–8

auditions: for Battle of the Psychics, 64–65, 65fig., 66, 107; entrance, 35, 109, 152, 189; star, 126–28

Austen, Jane, 204

Austin, John L., 163

automation, 88

avant-garde, 184–85, 197–98, 207, 211

Avatar, 79

back formations, 167

Bakhtin, Mikhail, 18, 49, 137, 148, 150, 163–64, 188

Bakunin, Mikhail, 192

Barish, Jonas A., 206

Barrett, William F., 47

Bateson, Gregory, 16, 26, 203–4

Battle of the Psychics, 83fig.; auditions for, 64–65, 65fig.; celebrity psychics on, 120–22; credentials and, 113–14; development of, 12; division of sensory labor in, 210fig.; expertise in, 25, 68, 74, 111; failure in, 64–66, 75; framing, 209–10; magical orientalism and, 82, 84; phatic experts in, 69, 81; phatic obstacles in, 68; regional and national identity and, 82, 84–85; sensory differences in, 67; skepticism of, 13–14, 115; tests for psychics on, 139

Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein), 181

Bauman, Richard, 27

Bedbug, The (Mayakovsky), 207

Bekhterev, Vladimir, 47, 50, 59, 72, 113

Bekhterova, Natalja Petrovna, 113

Bells from the Deep, 196

Bely, Andrei, 158–59

Belyaev, Alexander, 100

Bennetts, Marc, 10

Besant, Annie, xiifig., xiii

Besnier, N., 17

bioenergetic healing, 103

biomechanical training, 185

biomechanico-poetic function, 59

Bitva Ekstrasensov, 12

Blade Runner, xxi

Blavatsky, Elena, xv, 5, 158

Blok, Aleksandr, 158–59

Boas, Franz, 190

bodily movement, 59

Boleslavsky, Richard, 70

Book of Tasty and Nutritious Food, The, 168–170

borders, 15

Bourdieu, Pierre, 167

Boym, Svetlana, 197

Bradbury, Ray, 166

Bronnikov, Fyodor, 113–15

Bulgakov, Mikhail, 133–35, 160–62

Bulychev, Kira, 52

bureaucracy, 131–33, 136, 138–39

Butler, Octavia, 80

Captive Mind, The (Miłosz), 42

Card, Orson Scott, 80

Carnegie, Dale, xx, 31

Carnicke, Sharon, 70–71

Carnival Nights, 4

Carson, Johnny, 14

Cassiday, Julie, 42, 208

Cazzamalli, Ferdinando, 47

celebrity psychics, 80, 107–8, 117–121, 123, 216

censorship, 135

chains of documents, 134–35

chains of encounter, 134

channels: defining, 3, 29; digital, 135; distraction in, 140–42; information, 95–99; media and, 29; switching, 133–34; telephonic, 134

Charcot, Jean Martin, 72

Chekhov, Mikhail, 3, 226

Chumak, Allan, 100–103, 196, 217–220

Churchill, Winston, 6

circles of attention, 143–150, 212

Clark, Katerina, 232

cold reading, 73–75

Cold War: borders in, 15; effects of war and, 191; elites in, 89; paranoia in, xvii, 5, 8; political communication in, 43; racism in, 87–89; radio broadcasts in, 95–99; study of Russians in, 6–7; technologies for intuition in, 8; telepathic contact in, 105–6

collective creativity, 154–58, 162–63, 178

collective play, 155

Comaroff, Jean, 38

Comaroff, John, 38

combinations, 158

Commission to Investigate Pseudoscience and Falsification in Scientific Work, 114

communication: conative function and, 26; critiques of, 155; defining, 29; dyadic, 138; expressive function and, 26; failed, 29–30; frames in, 203; gaps in, 30–31; ideologies of, 162–63, 176–77; lies in, xx, xxi; meta-functions of, 27; metalinguistic function and, 26; opacity in, xxii, xxiii; phatic function and, 26–29; poetic function and, 26; press tactics in, 201; referential function and, 26; Soviet modes of, 41

communicative contact: broken, 16; dyadic, 137–38, 140, 150; mediated, 16

conative function, 26

contact: distraction and, 29; mediated, 111; merged materiality in, 55; obstacles to, 117; phatic function and, 27–29; prevention of, 28; problems of, 12; sense of, 155; social division and, 75; telepathy and, 24

contact drills, 33, 54, 54fig., 55

contact improvisation, 1–2

cosmopolitanism, 151

Craig, Gordon, 58, 179

creativity: collective, 154–58, 162–63, 178; destructive, 192–93; individual, 162; laughter and, 154–55

credentials, 109–16, 128–29

crime, 115–16, 121

crises: occult surges in, 38–39; stakeholders in, 37–38

Custine, Astolphe, marquis de, 42

Dali, Salvador, 198fig.

Daston, Lorraine, 46

Davis, Angela, 93

Davitashvili, Evgenia (Dzhuna), 100

Dead Souls (Gogol), 132

deanimated animation, 192–95

Department of Defense (DoD) reports, 10–11, 46–49, 104

Derrida, Jacques, 156

Descartes, René, 44, 48

destructive creativity, 192–93

Diderot, Denis, 71, 145, 183

directors: actors and, 172, 176–79; demonstrations of, 172; dramatic conflict and, 179–181; training of, 176–77

disjuncture, 188–190

distance viewing, 112

distraction, 29, 140–42

divisions of labor, 153, 158, 172–73

Dmitrova, Vangelia (Vanga), 100

documents, 134–36, 142

Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 163–64

double consciousness, 91

Douglas, Mary, 189

Dracula (1897), 46

Dracula (Stoker), 5, 10

dramatic conflict, 179–183, 185–86

Dr. Strangelove, xvii

Druzhba Narodov (Friendship of the Peoples), 82, 83fig., 84

DuBois, W. E. B., 91, 205

Dubrov, A. P., 75

Dubrovka Theater, 201

dyadic fetish, 136–38

dyadic illusion, 138–39

Edwards, John, 14

Efremov, Ivan, 86, 104

Egides, A. P., xxi

Eisenstein, Sergei, 10, 24, 181, 185

Ekman, Paul, xx, 21, 31, 58

electromagnetism, 63

elites, 88–90

emotion memory, 70–71

Empire of the Csar (Custine), 42

Ender’s Game (Card), 80

energy, 59–63

Ermolaev, Boris, 24

Ermolaev, Nikolai, 75–76

estrangement (ostranenie): animation and, 184; artists and, 183, 197; awareness in, 186–88; biomechanical training and, 185; creative destruction and, 192; disjuncture and, 188–190; theatrical frames as, 204

Evans-Prichard, E. E., 38

Evdokimova, Arina, 114

Evreinov, Nikolai, 186, 207

expertise: phatic, 31–35, 63; shifting, 35–36

expressive function, 26

extrasensation, 66–67

extrasensory powers: expression of, 64; failure of, 64–67; military applications of, 7–8; tests for, 139–140. See also paranormal science; psychics

Faddeev, E. T., 48–49

Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury), 166

Fame of Gawa, The (Munn), 18

familiar-alien, 183

Fechner, Gustav, 57, 62

Fenomen, 140, 142

Fitzpatrick, Sheila, 133

Forest, The (Ostrovsky), 188

fortochka, 1–2, 2fig., 20

Foucault, Michel, 111, 132, 136, 190

frames and framing: blending, 212–13; breaking, 211; changes in, 203–4; communication and, 203; distinguishing, 204; dominant, 208; elite culture and, 205; experimenting with, 207–8; film-making and, 222–231; hierarchy in, 208–9; intuition and, 215; layering, 209–11; psychics and, 215–19; shifts in, 212–14; television and, 217–19; theatrical, 203–5, 208–11, 230

Frankenheimer, John, 8

freedom of speech, 86, 94

Freud, Sigmund, 70

Friedland, Paul, 42

Fukuyama, Francis, 81

futurism, 159–160

Gagarin, Yuri, 193

Galvan, Jill, 5

Garrick, David, 62

Gastev, Aleksei, 59, 72

Gates, Henry Louis, 18

gaze, 63–64, 123–26, 126fig.

Geller, Uri, 14, 113, 141–42, 219

Generation P (Pelevin), xxii, xxiv, 164

geopolitics, 190–92

gestural training, 58, 143

GITIS. See Russian Academy for the Theatrical Arts (GITIS)

glasnost’, 100, 103

Gluckman, Max, 38

Goffman, Erving, 49, 137, 148, 150, 188, 208

Gogol, Nikolai, 132, 188, 210

Golding, William, 79

Gorbachev, Mikhail, 100

Gorchakov, Nikolaj, 179

grotesque, 184

Guest from the Future, 52

Gypsy magic, 84–85, 126

Hard to Be a God (Strugatsky), 80

Hegel, G. W. F., 87

Heidegger, Martin, 190

Heifetz, Leonid, 37, 127

Herzog, Werner, 196–97

Hitchcock, Alfred, 10

Hoffman, E. T. A., 183

Houghton, Norris, 33, 152, 207, 232

How to Learn to Tune in with People (Egides), xxi

Hundred Years Ago in the Future, A (Bulychev), 52

hypnosis: antitheatricality and, 206; discovery of, 159; experiments in, 25, 36; fascism and, 247n8; Gypsies and, 84, 126, 150; messages and, 22; performances of, 24, 56, 60, 101; social crises and, 38, 100; telepathy and, 30

hypnotic gaze, 84, 126

ideals, 131

Ignatenko, Albert, 56, 148

illusion, 138–39

impersonation, 121

individuation, 136–37

information channels, 95–99

infrastructures: automation and, 88; breakdown of, 89, 191–92; material, 90; phatic, 90, 136; racism and, 87–91, 93; telecommunications, 103

Inheritors, The (Golding), 79

Inspector General (Gogol), 188

interdiscursive expertise, 164, 167

interpretants, 28–29

interrogation technologies, 187–88

intertexts, 163–64

intertextual enchantment, 164–66

intertextual expertise, 167

intuition: biomaterial mechanisms of, 57; framing of, 215; improvement of, 8; interpretants and, 29; sensation and, 63; technologies for, 2–4, 8, 34, 37–38, 56, 153; theatrical skills for, 35

Ivanov, Vjacheslav, 59

Jain, Chandra Mohan, 82

Jakobson, Roman, 26–27, 58, 160

James, William, xiv

Jastrow, Joseph, 57

Kaletski, Alexander, 136

Kandinsky, Vasily, xiii, xiv, xv

Kashpirovskii, Anatoly, 100

Kaverin, Venjamin, 201

Kazhinskij, Bernard, 100

Kedrov, Mikhail, 3, 232

Kelly, Catriona, 168

Khlebnikov, V., 160, 163

Khrushchev, Nikita, 181, 207

Kin-dza-dza! 79

King Lear, 4

KinoEye, 125

Kitajgorodsky, A., 77–78

Klint, Hilma af, xiii

Knebel’, Maria Osipovna, 3–4, 7, 19, 24, 57, 75, 127, 182

Knocking on Heaven’s Door (BBC), 193

kommunikatsija, 20

Kotik, Naum, 11

Kreskin, 12, 40

Krugljakov, Eduard Pavlovich, 114–15

Kulagina, Nina, 56

Kuleshova, Roza, xvi, 68–69

Kuprin, Alexander, 175

Labyrinth of Communication (Egides), xxi

Lamont, Peter, 13

language: connections and, 158–59; patterns in, 158–59; philosophy of, 163; poetry and, 158–160; polyphony in, 163

laughter, 154–56

Law, Alma, 58

Leadbeater, Charles W., xiii

Lenin, Vladimir, 47

Leontevich, Kirill, 113

“Lesson in Telepathy, A” (Soloukhin), 52

Lindquist, Galina, 100

linguistic anthropology, 26, 137–38, 148, 156, 163

Lipovetsky, Gilles, 80

Lord of the World (Belyaev), 100

Luckhurst, Roger, 5, 22, 30

Lunacharsky State Institute for Theatrical Arts (GITIS), 19

Lutsik, Piotr, 134

magicians, 72–73, 210, 263n9

magic orientalism, 81–82, 84–85

Magija Slov (Bely), 158

Malinowski, Bronislaw, 26, 163

Manchurian Candidate, The, 8–9

Mandelstam, Osip, 45

Mano, Veet, 81–82, 85

Marrs, Jim, 104

Masco, Joseph, 67

masking and unmasking, 7, 14, 42–43, 61, 72, 192, 217

Master and Margarita (Bulgakov), 133, 135, 160–62, 220–21

material breakdowns, 191–96

materialism: Marxist, 47; paranormal science and, 46–47, 49–50; Soviet, 48–50, 54; suspicion of, 46; telepathy and, 73–74; thought transfer and, 48

Matza, Thomas, 101

Mayakovsky, Vladimir, 160, 184, 207

Mayakovsky Theater, 207

Mead, Margaret, 6

media: access to, 16–17; censorship in, 99–100; channels in, 29; investigative journalism in, 100; paranormal performers in, 100–101; press tactics in, 201; radio broadcasts, 95–99; Soviet Union, 17; static in, 101–2

Medvedev, Daniel, 194

“Memory of Physical Action” drill, 182

Mendeleyev, Dmitry, 11

Messing, Wolf: authority and, 220; biography of, 24; chains of encounter and, 134; distraction and, 142–43; on evading attention, 130–32; performances of, 73fig., 77, 100; telepathy and, 12, 53, 56, 73; train conductor story of, 130–33, 136–37, 150–51; trust and, 138

metacommunication, 26, 31, 59

meta-functions, 27

metalinguistic function, 26

meta-signs, 204

Method acting, 9, 70–72

Metro (Kaletski), 136

Meyerhold, Vsevolod: bodily movement and, 59, 173, 188; circles of attention and, 146; collective creativity, 156; estrangement (ostranenie), 183–88; execution of, 45; psychophysical energy and, 59–60; sensory drills and, 58; theatrical realism and, 207

micro-expressions, xx, 3, 31, 58

Military Psychotronics (Popov), 4

Miłosz, Czesław, 41–44

mimesis, 206

Mind of My Mind (Butler), 80

modernism: materialism and, 191; skepticism and, 78; surrealism and, 198–99

Montesquieu, 39, 55, 63

Morehouse, David, 104–5

Moscow Art Theater (MKhAT), 19, 202, 232

Moscow Children’s Theater, 19, 33

Moscow Romani Theater, 205

Munn, Nancy, 18, 38

Musico-Dramatic School of the Moscow Philharmonic Society, 19

Music of Gounud, The (Leadbeater and Besant), xiifig., xiii

Myers, Fred, xiii, 5

mysticism: Russian interest in, 11, 78; science and, 193; tradition of, 106

national characteristics, 39

Naumov, Edward, 24

Nautilus, USS, 4

neurovision, 113

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 48

Night Watch, 195

Nikolaev, Boris, 56, 77

Nikolaev, Karl, 24, 40

Nillson, Lennart, 50

9 Years with Psychics/Extrasensates, 56, 75, 139

Nixon, Richard, 208

nonrealist theater, 207

Noon (Strugatsky and Strugatsky), 51

Nord-Ost, 201–2

Nothing is True and Everything is Possible (Pomerantsev), 200

occult economies, 38

Okhlopkov, Nikolai, 207

Okraina, 134–36

Olender, Viktor, 56, 75–76, 78, 139, 141–42, 148, 211

opacity, xxii, xxiii

Open Media Research Institute, 98

Operation Y, and More Adventures with Shurik, 53

Orlando, 24

Orwell, George, 42, 133

oscillation, 40, 49, 181, 200, 218, 261n2

Ostrander, Sheila, 24, 40, 76

ostranenie. See estrangement (ostranenie)

Ostrovsky, Alexander, 188

Panasjuk, Alexander, 21

panoptic power, 132

paper credentials, 111, 113

paranoia: Cold War, xvii, 5, 8; conditions for, 7; Russian, 6

paranormal performances, 100–101

paranormal science: credentials and, 113–15; crises and, 38–39; Department of Defense reports on, 10–11, 46–48, 104; experimental research in, 50–51, 112–13; materialism and, 46–47, 54; Russian interest in, 10–12, 16; as technologies for intuition, 4; theater and, 24. See also psychics

participation frameworks, 143

patterns, 157–59

Pavlov, Ivan, 59

Pease, Allan, xx

Peirce, Charles S., xiv, 28, 57, 163

Pelevin, Victor, xxii, xxiv, 164

perception, 49, 57, 63–64

Peters, John, 16

phatic buffers, 109–13

phatic communication, 143

phatic communion, 26, 28

phatic energy, 134

phatic experts: authority and, 34; cross-disciplinary, 32–33; defining, 31; development of, 81, 156; gaze and, 63; human sign behavior and, 31; intuition and, 44; judgment and, 32; magicians as, 73; meaning and, 153; non-experts and, 32, 34; sensory labor and, 69; shifting, 35; types of, 32

phatic function: acting and, 69; contact and, 27–29; defining, 25–26; infrastructures and, 90; neglect of, 27; politics of, 27; referential function and, 31

phatic glamour, 116–121

phatic infrastructure, 90, 136

phatic loss, 165, 168

phatic spectacle, 139

phatic tricks, 140–42

Plato, 206, 208

play, 155–56

poetic function, 26

Point and Line to Plane (Kandinsky), xiii, xiv

Pomerantsev, Peter, 200

Popov, Nikolaj Ivanovich, 4

Potapov, N., 160–62

Powers of the Russian Psychics, 76

prana, 63

Presnyakov, Oleg, 202

Presnyakov, Vladimir, 202

prisons: film-making and, 222–231; frames and, 227–28; as proscenium, 231–32; Russia as, 231–32; Soviet, 92, 94; tropes of, 232–33

Propp, Vladimir, 181

proprioception, 55

pseudoscience, 77

PSI Spies (Marrs), 104

psychic channels, 25

Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain (Ostrander and Schroeder), 12, 24, 76

psychics: attention and, 143; celebrity, 80, 107–8, 117–121, 123, 216; cold reading and, 74–75; credentials of, 116; eyes in, 123–24, 124fig., 125; healing and, 115–16; highly evolved beings as, 79–80; impersonation in, 121; interviews with, 214–17; perspectives of, 220–21; relationships and, 106–7; skeptics and, 73, 76; television and, 217–19; tests for, 139–140; unsolved crimes and, 115–16. See also paranormal science

Psychic Warrior (Morehouse), 104

psychobiocomputer, 113

Psychology of Attention (Ribot), 62

psychophysical energy, 59–63, 72

Pushkin, Alexander, 29, 184

Pushkin, V., 75

racial equality, 86

racism: American, 89–91, 94–95, 152; antiracist policies for, 84; automation and, 87; Cold War ideology and, 87; double consciousness of, 91; infrastructures and, 87–91, 93; institutional, 85; movement of, 87; prison and, 92

radical art, 200

radio broadcasts, 95–99

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 95–98

Radio Moscow, 96

Rafael, Vincent, 15

Ranciere, Jacques, 206

Rand, Ayn, xx, 80

Randi, James, 14, 76–77, 142, 215

Rasputin, 11

Raya, Gypsy heroine, 124fig., 125

referential function, 26–28, 31

Ribot, Théodule-Armand, 62

robotic: acting, 179, 185; depictions of Soviets as, 40, 45, 48, 94, 101, 193; psychics, 66

robot slot, 45–46, 48

Roma, 85, 89, 98, 125, 193, 205

Roshchin, A., 77

rupture, 188

Russia: bureaucracy in, 131–33; discrimination in, 89; infrastructures and, 191–92; media in, 200–201; national identity in, 82, 84; paranoia and, 6; paranormal science and, 10–12, 23, 38–39; as a prison, 231–32; rupture in, 188; theater and, 23; theatrical frames in, 204–5. See also Soviet Union

Russian Academy for the Theatrical Arts (GITIS): contact drills in, 33, 54, 54fig., 55; cosmopolitanism and, 151; history of, 19; organization of, 151–52; phatic experts in, 34–35; phatic function and, 69; regional and national identity and, 151–52; sensory drills in, 55–56; telepathy drills in, 1, 3–4, 7; training at, 19–20, 57–61, 64, 68, 109–10, 126–27, 143, 149, 151–53, 212–13, 213fig., 214

Russians: depictions of, 193; knowledge of America by, xvii, xix; minds of, 5–7; mysticism and, 11; perceptions of, 39–41; theatricality of, 23, 42

Sacks, Oliver, 55

Samuels, David, 79

Saussure, Ferdinand de, 156, 158–59, 164

savage slot, 45–46

Schepkina (Maly Theater), 19

Schieffelin, Bambi B., 17

Schroeder, Lynn, 24, 40, 76

Schukina (Vakhtangov), 19

science fiction: chains of encounter in, 134; contact in, 15; extrasensory powers in, 80; international interstellar crews of, 86, 105; scientific process in, 51–53; telepathy in, 51–53, 106

scientific experimentation, 22

Scriabin, Aleksandr, 59

Sechenov, Ivan, 62

semiotic action, 55

sensation: acting and, 64, 68–70; biomechanical training and, 59; energy and, 60; excess of, 67; materialism and, 49–50; oscillation of, 200; perception and, 57; psychophysical studies of, 63; shifts in, 57–58, 62; temporhythms (temporitm) of, 62

sensory drills, 55–56

sensory field: disengaging, 67; social division of, 64–67

Shakespeare, William, 29, 41, 166, 206

Shestakovsky Music School, 19

shine, 123–25

Shklovsky, Viktor, 150, 183–85

Shkola Obraz, 35–37

Shkola Zloslovia, 217

Shukshin, Vasily, 144

Siegel, Lee, 8–10

signs: attention and, 57; body and, 58–59, 61; circles of attention and, 145; cold reading and, 74; collective creativity and, 162; as frames, 204; interpretants and, 28; intuition and, 44; meta-signs, 204; participation frameworks in, 143; patterns in, 159; phatic experts and, 31–32, 63

Silva, José, 36

Silva Method, 36

Silverstein, Michael, 166

Sinjaevsky, Andrei, 45

situational boundaries, 203

skepticism, 14, 76–78

Slave Market with Disappearing Bust of Voltaire (Dali), 198fig.

Slynx (Tolstaja), 166, 168

Smirnova, Avdotija, 217–220

Smoktunovsky, Innokenty, 21

social division, 75

socialism, 41–42, 99, 135

Society for Psychical Research, xiii, 5

Socrates, 179

Solaris, x, xi, 86fig.

Soloukhin, Vladimir Alekseevich, 52

Solovjev, Vladimir, 158

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 94

Sophocles, 29

Soviet Attitudes Toward Authority (Mead), 6

Soviet mind, 6–7

Soviet Union: acting in, 4, 7; bureaucracy in, 131–33; censorship in, 86, 94–95, 98–99; communication in, 41; contact in, 15; discrimination in, 89; education in, 15; effects of war on, 191; elites in, 89–90, 92; as a land of robots, 45, 48; mysticism and, 11, 106; paranormal science and, 4, 16, 39–40, 46–47, 72, 76–78, 112–13; prisons in, 92, 94; rocket design in, 193; static in, 102; telepathy and, 12; theatrical frames in, 204–5. See also Russia

speech functions, 26–27

Spiritual in Art, The (Kandinsky), xiii

stage fright, 62

Stalin, Joseph, 130, 134, 169, 207

Stalker (Tarkovsky), xxi, xxii, 231

Stanislavsky, Constantine, 21; affective memory and, 71; on attention, 183; circles of attention and, 144–45, 148, 150; creativity and, 162; dramatic conflict and, 179, 182; dual system of, 72; on energy, 71; English translations of, 70–71; intuition and, 63; materialism and, 72; Method acting of, 9; nonrealist methods and, 207; phatic expertise of, 31; prana and, 62–63; psychophysical energy and, 72; senses and, 184; students of, 3, 70, 146, 156; surveillance and, 232; techniques of, 22, 70; on tension, 24–25; on watching in acting, 60; yoga and, 24, 36, 184

stardom, 126–27

Star Trek, 79–80

static, 101–2

Steedman, Carolyn, 131

Stephens, Sharon, 239

Stoker, Bram, 5

Strasberg, Lee, 70

structuralism, 156

Strugatsky, Arkady, 51, 80

Strugatsky, Boris, 51, 80

subconscious, 22

surrealism, 197–99

surveillance, 131, 135, 232

symbolism, 159

symmetrical schismogenesis, 16

Tarkovsky, A., xxi, xxii, 86fig., 144, 231

Taylor, Frederick, 59, 72

Technique in Art (Shklovsky), 183

technologies for intuition: Cold War, 8; contact drills for, 56; crises and, 38; defining, 2–3; divisions of labor and, 153; expectations of, 34; learning, 37; militarized, 4

technologies of individuation, 136

telecommunications, 103

telepathy: capacity to feel and, 39–41; censorship and, 99–100; communication gaps and, 30; crises and, 37–39; defined, xiii, 5; drills for, 1, 3–4, 7; experimental research in, 76–77, 139; failure of, 75; highly evolved beings and, 79–81; imagining, 17–18; as a lost sense, 79; materialism and, 73–74; modern, 22; phatic spectacle in, 139; political systems and, 41–44; pragmatic philosophy and, xiv; in science fiction, 51–53; skepticism of, 76–78; theatrical skills and, 37–44, 139

telepathy research: experiments in, xvi, xvii; superpower, 4; USS Nautilus and, 4

Telepatija, 11, 17

temporhythms (temporitm), 60–62

Terrorizm (Presnyakov and Presnyakov), 202

Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The, 195

texts: acting and, 172–76; communication and, 160; connections and, 165–67, 172–73; interdiscursive, 166, 172; intertextual, 162, 166, 172, 174; meaning across, 164; social criticism in, 161; theories of, 163

theater: actor-spectators in, 186, 207–8; agency and, 207; antirealism in, 207; biomechanical training and, 185; communication gaps and, 30; directors in, 172; divisions of labor and, 172–73; dramatic conflict in, 179–183, 185–86; estrangement (ostranenie), 183–86, 188; nonrealist, 207; paranormal science and, 24; pedagogy of, 176; realist, 184; telepathy and, 37–44; training in, 35–37; tropes of, 232; violence in, 201–2. See also acting; Russian Academy for the Theatrical Arts (GITIS)

theatrical frames, 203–5, 208–11, 230

theatricality, 23, 42

theosophy, xiii, xiv, xv

theremin, 56–57

Theremin, Leon, 56

Thomas, Helen, 208–9

Thought and Speech (Vygotsky), 71

Thought Forms (Besant and Leadbeater), xiii

thought transfer, 11, 48, 50

Thought Transfer (Kazhinskij), 100

Tolstaja, Tatjana, 166, 168, 217–19

Tolstoy, Leo, 206–7

Tovstonogov, Georgii, 24

Trouillot, Michel-Rolph, 45

Tugarinov, V., 48–49

Turner, Victor, 131

Two Captains, The (Kaverin), 201

United States: discrimination in, 89–91, 94–95; elites in, 90–92, 94; inequality in, 90–94; infrastructures and, 192; knowledge of Russia by, xvii; prisons in, 94; racism in, 94–95; skeptical television, 13–14

universal connections, 158–59

unmasking. See masking and unmasking

U. S. Defense Intelligence Agency, 7

Uspekh, 178, 214

Vakhtangov, Yevgeny, 146, 180

Vasiljev, Leonid, 24, 47, 50–51

Vatelescu, Cristina, 187

Veltrushky, Jirí, 58

Vertov, Dziga, 125

Viktorovich, Mikhail, 112

Vinogradov, Mikhail, 25, 68, 84–85

Vodkin, Petrov, 181

Voloshinov, V. N., xiv, 18, 49, 137, 163

Vygotsky, Lev, 33, 71

Vysotsky, Vladimir, 56

We (Zamiatin), 42

Wells, H. G., 42

What Is in His Subconscious? (Panasjuk), 21

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 163

World’s Fairs, 199, 199fig., 200, 200fig.

Zamiatin, Yevgeny, 42

Zarrilli, Phillip B., 62

Zener cards, 139, 142

Zoschenko, Mikhail, 206–7

Zotov, Rafael, 140–42, 148

Zrazhevskaja, Vera, 56

Zuckerman, Charles H. P., 29