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 defin...
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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 & M...
Giới thiệu về tác giả
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 Tri...