Textual Enchantment and Interdiscursive Labor

Technologies for Intuition ◽

10.1525/california/9780520294271.003.0007 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Alaina Lemon

Keyword(s):

Cold War ◽

Single Point ◽

Multiple Perspectives ◽

Time And Space ◽

Collective Creativity ◽

The Cold War ◽

Collective Engagement ◽

Semiotic Theory

Creativity always requires some level of collective engagement, be it over a shared terrain or around a single point that can be approached from many perspectives. The anglophone world’s denial of collectivity in creativity remains an artifact of anxieties over agency and will that predated the Cold War, during which theories of grammars and structures were classified as antihumanist. Russian theatrical pedagogy, by contrast, has long fused the aims both to create fresh art and to create contact across time and space with values of intertextual enchantment and collective creativity. So did the early Soviet theorists of semiotics and communication—people who took their cues from artists, artists who theorized the makings of multiple perspectives, but who came to influence American social and semiotic theory much later.

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Antipodean Alice

The Planetary Clock ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198857723.003.0003 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 104-145

Author(s):

Paul Giles

Keyword(s):

Cold War ◽

Vladimir Nabokov ◽

Lewis Carroll ◽

Jean Genet ◽

Indigenous Culture ◽

Time And Space ◽

Gyorgy Ligeti ◽

Alice In Wonderland ◽

Ingmar Bergman ◽

The Cold War

This chapter discusses how the Alice in Wonderland prototype developed by Lewis Carroll became influential for writers and artists after 1945. It aligns its treatment of sexuality with what Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht called the ‘frozen time’ of the Cold War era, showing how Australian painter Charles Blackman deployed representations of Alice to project a world in which time was reversed. This is linked to Blackman’s interest in Indigenous culture and to explorations of temporality in the work of English film director Nicolas Roeg. Similarly reflexive representations of time in playwright Jean Genet and film-maker Ingmar Bergman are counterpointed with the absurdist style of composer György Ligeti, whose opera Le Grand Macabre frames Cold War politics within a burlesque setting. This chapter concludes with an analysis of Vladimir Nabokov, also much influenced by Carroll, who in his later fictions seeks explicitly to put time and space into reverse.

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Afghanistan: Hard Choices for the U.S.

Worldview ◽

10.1017/s0084255900039206 ◽

1980 ◽

Vol 23 (6) ◽

pp. 5-7

Author(s):

Helmut Sonnenfeldt

Keyword(s):

Cold War ◽

Time And Space ◽

Soviet Occupation ◽

Berlin Crises ◽

The Cold War ◽

The U.S

There is no doubt that the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan is a crisis, and a different sort of crisis than the kind we have been accustomed to over the years of the cold war and the period that came to be known as detente. The condition that we now confront is unlikely to be confined in time and space in the same manner that many of the postwar crises had been. The Berlin crises were serious and worrisome, but they came and went and some degree of normality was restored.

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