The pharmacon of information: Fantasies of the Cold War and the Cuban Revolution (1959)

In this work, I analyze how various actors, including revolutionaries and journalists of the Americas and members of the US diplomatic service, typified the connection between information, politics, and emotions within the context of the Cuban Revolution, through a series of keywords such as propaga...

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Autor principal: Espeche, Ximena
Formato: Artículo revista
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: CETYCLI 2025
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Guerra Fría
Revolución Cubana
lavado de cerebro
cultura científica
Cold War
Cuban Revolution
brainwash
scientific culture
Acceso en línea:https://badebec.unr.edu.ar/index.php/badebec/article/view/708
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spelling I15-R206-article-7082025-11-25T22:12:10Z The pharmacon of information: Fantasies of the Cold War and the Cuban Revolution (1959) El pharmacon de la información. Fantasías de la Guerra Fría y de la Revolución Cubana (1959) Espeche, Ximena Guerra Fría Revolución Cubana lavado de cerebro cultura científica Cold War Cuban Revolution brainwash scientific culture In this work, I analyze how various actors, including revolutionaries and journalists of the Americas and members of the US diplomatic service, typified the connection between information, politics, and emotions within the context of the Cuban Revolution, through a series of keywords such as propaganda and brainwashing, among others. These keywords make even more sense within the context of a conflict like the bipolar one, associated with a "psychological" one. I argue that they constitute evidence of a scientific culture that revisited the old nineteenth-century paradigm of "hypnosis-suggestion," intertwined with communication theories and analyses of politics and mass communication—where international news agencies take on a central role—regarding social order/disorder. Each piece of that political analysis contains, in its own way, a breviary of fantasies that fueled it while also being operative in the ideological-political dispute. En este trabajo analizo cómo diversos actores, entre ellos revolucionarios/as, periodistas de las Américas y miembros del servicio diplomático de EE.UU., tipificaron el vínculo entre información, política y emociones en el marco del acontecimiento de la Revolución Cubana. Lo haré teniendo en cuenta las referencias a una serie de palabras clave como “propaganda” y “lavado de cerebro”, entre otras. Estas palabras clave tienen aún más sentido en el marco de un conflicto como el bipolar, asociado con uno “psicológico”. Sostengo que constituyen indicios de una cultura científica que retomaba el viejo paradigma decimonónico de la “hipnosis-sugestión”, cruzado con teorías comunicacionales y de análisis sobre la política y comunicación de masas –donde las agencias internacionales de noticias adquieren un papel central– respecto del orden/desorden social. Cada pieza de aquel análisis político contiene a su modo un breviario de fantasías que lo alimentaban, a la vez que eran operativas en la disputa ideológico-política. CETYCLI 2025-11-25 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Artículo revisado por pares application/pdf https://badebec.unr.edu.ar/index.php/badebec/article/view/708 Badebec; Vol. 15 Núm. 29 (2025): Septiembre (2025); 113-141 1853-9580 spa https://badebec.unr.edu.ar/index.php/badebec/article/view/708/625
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topic Guerra Fría
Revolución Cubana
lavado de cerebro
cultura científica
Cold War
Cuban Revolution
brainwash
scientific culture
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Revolución Cubana
lavado de cerebro
cultura científica
Cold War
Cuban Revolution
brainwash
scientific culture
Espeche, Ximena
The pharmacon of information: Fantasies of the Cold War and the Cuban Revolution (1959)
topic_facet Guerra Fría
Revolución Cubana
lavado de cerebro
cultura científica
Cold War
Cuban Revolution
brainwash
scientific culture
author Espeche, Ximena
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title The pharmacon of information: Fantasies of the Cold War and the Cuban Revolution (1959)
title_short The pharmacon of information: Fantasies of the Cold War and the Cuban Revolution (1959)
title_full The pharmacon of information: Fantasies of the Cold War and the Cuban Revolution (1959)
title_fullStr The pharmacon of information: Fantasies of the Cold War and the Cuban Revolution (1959)
title_full_unstemmed The pharmacon of information: Fantasies of the Cold War and the Cuban Revolution (1959)
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description In this work, I analyze how various actors, including revolutionaries and journalists of the Americas and members of the US diplomatic service, typified the connection between information, politics, and emotions within the context of the Cuban Revolution, through a series of keywords such as propaganda and brainwashing, among others. These keywords make even more sense within the context of a conflict like the bipolar one, associated with a "psychological" one. I argue that they constitute evidence of a scientific culture that revisited the old nineteenth-century paradigm of "hypnosis-suggestion," intertwined with communication theories and analyses of politics and mass communication—where international news agencies take on a central role—regarding social order/disorder. Each piece of that political analysis contains, in its own way, a breviary of fantasies that fueled it while also being operative in the ideological-political dispute.
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