{"id":109612,"date":"2017-04-06T09:33:36","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T13:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=109612"},"modified":"2017-04-06T10:28:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T14:28:52","slug":"technology-is-telepathy-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/06\/technology-is-telepathy-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology Is Telepathy, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_109613\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/wires.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109613\" class=\"wp-image-109613 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/wires.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/wires.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/wires-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/wires-768x524.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-109613\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man fixes telegraph wires during the U.S. Civil War, ca. 1863. Image via <em>Public Domain Review<\/em>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the nineteenth century, as communications technologies proliferated and spiritualism spread across the U.S., people began to wonder, not unreasonably, if telepathy was real, and if our dreams could be used to predict the future. It\u2019s an idea that retains a certain currency even today. For instance, last night I dreamed I lost my thirty-day unlimited MetroCard on an escalator; I spent two hours looking for it, riding the escalator again and again all hunched over. I experienced this search in real time. Now all I have to do is lose my MetroCard in real life and whammo, I can claim to be a telepath. But wait, back to the nineteenth century:\u00a0Alicia Puglionesi writes, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/publicdomainreview.org\/2017\/04\/05\/lofty-only-in-sound-crossed-wires-and-community-in-19th-century-dreams\/\" target=\"_blank\">Despite skepticism from some scientists, people took the idea of spontaneous, unconscious mental transmission quite seriously, as a possibility and as a danger, in an age when powerful ideas crisscrossed the nation through new and mysterious channels<\/a>. From mass print to the telegraph to the railroad, burgeoning communication systems collapsed time and space through increasingly rapid connections. They brought unprecedented economic growth, creating new forms of investment and trading that depended as much on information flow as they did on the movement of commodities. Such precipitous connectedness also posed a threat to the socioeconomic order: it allowed laborers to organize, abolitionists and suffragists to rally. Dangerous ideas could spread uncontrollably, and many worried that hardware might not limit their range.\u00a0The line between technology and telepathy blurred, with medical men like William Carpenter explaining the nervous system as a telegraph and extending its reach beyond the individual body; he believed that \u2018nerve-force,\u2019 as a form of electricity, could \u2018exert itself from a distance, so as to bring the Brain of one person into direct dynamical communication with that of another.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Family vacation idea: take a guided tour of America\u2019s nuclear facilities. Peggy Weil did it, and she discovered vast subterranean networks of apocalyptic weaponry that most Americans never truly contemplate. Also, there were cartoons: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/placesjournal.org\/article\/oscar-zero-notes-from-a-nuclear-tourist\/\">The Minuteman III Launch Control Centers are located deep underground in remote areas of North Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, and Montana; these facilities support the approximately 450 Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles that now comprise our land-based nuclear arsenal<\/a> \u2026 Operational from 1965 until 1997, Oscar-Zero was one of fifteen Missile Alert Facilities run by the 321st Strategic Missile Wing, its crew responsible for ten of the 150 Minuteman missiles then housed at Grand Forks Air Force Base, about eighty miles to the northeast \u2026 But Oscar-Zero is not all gunmetal grim. One corner melts into an azure photomural depicting a lush tropical seascape. In another mural, two missileers stride proudly under the slogan <small>WHO YA GONNA CALL?<\/small> \u2026 The commanding officer is depicted as an American eagle and his deputy commander is the Muppet character Oscar the Grouch, who declares: \u2018Hey! This is a job for the BEST of the BEST!\u2019 Both officers are wearing patches that read: <small>KREMLIN KRUSHERS<\/small>. On one cabinet there\u2019s a picture of Donald Duck lazing against a palm tree.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Annie Julia Wyman is fixated on a passage from John Berger: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nplusonemag.com\/online-only\/book-review\/a-monument-a-world-of-his-own\/\">A man walks along a stony beach. As he goes, he turns a single stone upright. He leaves it, standing there, on its end<\/a>.\u201d But she can\u2019t remember where it came from; only that she\u2019s been thinking about it for years. \u201cI can\u2019t find it anywhere, not in my books or in the library or on the internet. But maybe it\u2019s enough that I remember it\u2014or, more precisely, maybe it\u2019s enough that I remember\u00a0<em>why<\/em>\u00a0I remember it. It might seem like there\u2019s nothing there. But like so many of the stories Berger wrote and co-wrote and recorded, the story of the man on the beach bursts into meaning at the slightest pressure.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u2019s very important to not not read. You should not not read like your life depends on it. Sheila Liming remembers when \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thepointmag.com\/2017\/criticism\/in-praise-of-not-not-reading\" target=\"_blank\">a colleague of mine (a creative writer pursuing an M.F.A. in fiction) told me that, as a writer, he didn\u2019t believe in reading<\/a>: \u2018I\u2019m a writer, I make things,\u2019 he told me, \u2018Whereas you\u2019re a reader, you consume things.\u2019\u00a0In saying this, my colleague appeared to be drawing a sharp line between the twin skill sets of the literary arts curricula and, at the same time, reinforcing a puzzling division of labor. Such binaries lend credence to and support for so-called \u2018producerist\u2019 ideologies, all too common today, that would have us value innovation over use and, thus, production over education \u2026 Reading, far from being a useless activity, is beginning to look like an act of resistance. The work of reading generally goes unrewarded: tenure committees don\u2019t care about it; grants are not won by it; and riches do not wait in store for the patient and dedicated reader. But this is precisely its value. Reading is unique in being a form of production that resists monetization and the logic of structural incentives. It produces things like experience, knowledge, discomfort and communion.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Vanessa Davis, the cartoonist who\u2019s just won our Terry Southern Prize for Humor, discusses her work for the <em>Daily <\/em>with Naomi Fry: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcj.com\/vanessa-davis-interview-naomi-fry\/\" target=\"_blank\">I think that I was being a little more ambitious conceptually with what I was discussing, and I was trying to make connections between things that I felt made sense but I wasn\u2019t able to articulate necessarily, in any kind of convincing way<\/a>. 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