Exploring how technological apparatuses "capture" invisible worlds, this book looks at how spirits, UFOs, discarnate entities, spectral energies, atmospheric forces and particles are mattered into existence by human minds. Technological and scientific discourse has always been central to the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century spiritualist quest for legitimacy, but as this book shows, machines, people, and invisible beings are much more ontologically entangled in their definitions and constitution than we would expect. The book shows this entanglement through a series of contemporary case…mehr
Exploring how technological apparatuses "capture" invisible worlds, this book looks at how spirits, UFOs, discarnate entities, spectral energies, atmospheric forces and particles are mattered into existence by human minds. Technological and scientific discourse has always been central to the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century spiritualist quest for legitimacy, but as this book shows, machines, people, and invisible beings are much more ontologically entangled in their definitions and constitution than we would expect. The book shows this entanglement through a series of contemporary case studies where the realm of the invisible arises through technological engagement, and where the paranormal intertwines with modern technology.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Diana Espírito Santo currently works as Associate Professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She has published many articles and has co-edited four volumes, including The Social Life of Spirits (2013, University of Chicago Press) with Ruy Blanes.
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List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: On the Materiality of Unseen Things Diana Espirito Santo and Jack Hunter PART I: BODILY SEMANTICS, METAPHOR & MEDIATION Chapter 1. Organicism and Mechanism in Psychical Research: Reflections on the Mattering of Spirit Mediumship Jack Hunter Chapter 2. Semantics of the Suffering: Torture Technologies and Mediumship in Buenos Aires Miguel Algranti Chapter 3. New Media Technologies and the Otherworld in Postsocialist Vietnam Gertrud Hüwelmeier Chapter 4. Broken Words: Tools of Oracular Articulacy in Afro-Cuban Divination Anastasios Panagiotopoulos PART II: ORDERS OF SOUND, SIGHT, & MEASUREMENT Chapter 5. Radioaficionados and UFOs: The Social Life of Radios in Chile Diana Espírito Santo Chapter 6. Hospitality and Proof: Human Mediums, Technical Media, and Controversial Knowledge in Ghost Hunting in the United States Ehler Voss Chapter 7. Picturing the Unseen: The Role of Polaroid Media in the Remystification of the Western World Andrea Lathrop Ligueros PART III: MATTERING INVISIBLE POWERS Chapter 8. Specters of Climate and the Construction of Ghostly Realities in Brazil Renzo Taddei Chapter 9. Iktomi's Realm: Reanimating the Inanimate in Western Science Anne Dippel Chapter 10. Phantom Power: Prophecy, Triangulation and Materialization in Angola Ruy Blanes Conclusion: Mediation and Variable Communications Diana Espírito Santo & Jack Hunter Index
List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: On the Materiality of Unseen Things Diana Espirito Santo and Jack Hunter PART I: BODILY SEMANTICS, METAPHOR & MEDIATION Chapter 1. Organicism and Mechanism in Psychical Research: Reflections on the Mattering of Spirit Mediumship Jack Hunter Chapter 2. Semantics of the Suffering: Torture Technologies and Mediumship in Buenos Aires Miguel Algranti Chapter 3. New Media Technologies and the Otherworld in Postsocialist Vietnam Gertrud Hüwelmeier Chapter 4. Broken Words: Tools of Oracular Articulacy in Afro-Cuban Divination Anastasios Panagiotopoulos PART II: ORDERS OF SOUND, SIGHT, & MEASUREMENT Chapter 5. Radioaficionados and UFOs: The Social Life of Radios in Chile Diana Espírito Santo Chapter 6. Hospitality and Proof: Human Mediums, Technical Media, and Controversial Knowledge in Ghost Hunting in the United States Ehler Voss Chapter 7. Picturing the Unseen: The Role of Polaroid Media in the Remystification of the Western World Andrea Lathrop Ligueros PART III: MATTERING INVISIBLE POWERS Chapter 8. Specters of Climate and the Construction of Ghostly Realities in Brazil Renzo Taddei Chapter 9. Iktomi's Realm: Reanimating the Inanimate in Western Science Anne Dippel Chapter 10. Phantom Power: Prophecy, Triangulation and Materialization in Angola Ruy Blanes Conclusion: Mediation and Variable Communications Diana Espírito Santo & Jack Hunter Index
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