ISBN:
9781800730670
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (272 p)
Edition:
1st edition
Keywords:
paranormal;supernatural;scientific exploration;ufos;discarnate entities;particles;spiritualism;spiritualists;experiments;science and math;life and death;spiritual;page turner;engaging;religion and spirituality;otherworldly;animism;cultural;social;social science;modern technology;technological;scientific discourse;invisible beings;technology studies;invisible worlds;spectral energies;anthropology;technological engagement;technological apparatuses;atmospheric forces;human minds
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Note:
Zielgruppe: Professional and scholarly
