Diana Espírito Santo & Jack Hunter 
Mattering the Invisible [PDF ebook] 
Technologies, Bodies, and the Realm of the Spectral

Sokongan

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.

€33.99
cara bayaran

Jadual kandungan

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

Mengenai Pengarang


Jack Hunter is an Honorary Research Fellow with the Religious Experience Research Centre and a tutor with the Sophia Centre, both at University of Wales Trinity Saint David. He is the author of Spirits, Gods and Magic (2020, August Night Press) and Engaging the Anomalous (2018, August Night Press).

Beli ebook ini dan dapatkan 1 lagi PERCUMA!
Bahasa Inggeris ● Format PDF ● Halaman-halaman 272 ● ISBN 9781800730670 ● Saiz fail 1.1 MB ● Penyunting Diana Espírito Santo & Jack Hunter ● Penerbit Berghahn Books ● Bandar raya NY ● Negara US ● Diterbitkan 2021 ● Edisi 1 ● Muat turun 24 bulan ● Mata wang EUR ● ID 7802215 ● Salin perlindungan Adobe DRM
Memerlukan pembaca ebook yang mampu DRM

Lebih banyak ebook daripada pengarang yang sama / Penyunting

146,564 Ebooks dalam kategori ini