Mattering the Invisible : Technologies, Bodies, and the Realm of the Spectral /
Mattering the Invisible : Technologies, Bodies, and the Realm of the Spectral /
ed. by Jack Hunter, Diana Espírito Santo.
- 1 online resource (272 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction On the Materiality of Unseen Things -- Part I Bodily Semantics, Metaphor, and Mediation -- Chapter 1 Organicism and Psychical Research Where Mediums and Mushrooms Meet -- Chapter 2. Semantics of the Suffering: Torture Technologies and Mediumship in Buenos Aires -- Chapter 3 Media Technologies and the Otherworld in Late Socialist Vietnam -- Chapter 4. Broken Words: Tools of Oracular Articulacy in Afro-Cuban Divination -- Part II Orders of Sound, Sight, and Measurement -- Chapter 5. Radioaficionados and UFOs: The Social Life of Radios in Chile -- Chapter 6. Hospitality and Proof: Human Mediums, Technical Media, and Controversial Knowledge in Ghost-Hunting Practices in the United States -- Chapter 7. Picturing the Unseen: Polaroid Practice and the Re-enchantment of the Western World -- Part III Mattering Invisible Powers -- Chapter 8. Specters of Climate and the Construction of Ghostly Realities in Brazil -- Chapter 9. Ontological Opportunism: Reanimating the Inanimate in Physics and Science Communication at CERN -- Chapter 10. Phantom Power, Parallax, and the Multiple Cities of Luanda: Manifestation and Materialization in Angola -- Conclusion. Mediation and Variable Communications -- Index
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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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781800730663 9781800730670
10.1515/9781800730670 doi
2021000320
Parapsychology and science.
Technology--Miscellanea.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
animism. anthropology. atmospheric forces. cultural. discarnate entities. engaging. experiments. human minds. invisible beings. invisible worlds. life and death. modern technology. otherworldly. page turner. paranormal. particles. religion and spirituality. science and math. scientific discourse. scientific exploration. social science. social. spectral energies. spiritual. spiritualism. spiritualists. supernatural. technological apparatuses. technological engagement. technological. technology studies. ufos.
BF1045.S33
133
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction On the Materiality of Unseen Things -- Part I Bodily Semantics, Metaphor, and Mediation -- Chapter 1 Organicism and Psychical Research Where Mediums and Mushrooms Meet -- Chapter 2. Semantics of the Suffering: Torture Technologies and Mediumship in Buenos Aires -- Chapter 3 Media Technologies and the Otherworld in Late Socialist Vietnam -- Chapter 4. Broken Words: Tools of Oracular Articulacy in Afro-Cuban Divination -- Part II Orders of Sound, Sight, and Measurement -- Chapter 5. Radioaficionados and UFOs: The Social Life of Radios in Chile -- Chapter 6. Hospitality and Proof: Human Mediums, Technical Media, and Controversial Knowledge in Ghost-Hunting Practices in the United States -- Chapter 7. Picturing the Unseen: Polaroid Practice and the Re-enchantment of the Western World -- Part III Mattering Invisible Powers -- Chapter 8. Specters of Climate and the Construction of Ghostly Realities in Brazil -- Chapter 9. Ontological Opportunism: Reanimating the Inanimate in Physics and Science Communication at CERN -- Chapter 10. Phantom Power, Parallax, and the Multiple Cities of Luanda: Manifestation and Materialization in Angola -- Conclusion. Mediation and Variable Communications -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781800730663 9781800730670
10.1515/9781800730670 doi
2021000320
Parapsychology and science.
Technology--Miscellanea.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
animism. anthropology. atmospheric forces. cultural. discarnate entities. engaging. experiments. human minds. invisible beings. invisible worlds. life and death. modern technology. otherworldly. page turner. paranormal. particles. religion and spirituality. science and math. scientific discourse. scientific exploration. social science. social. spectral energies. spiritual. spiritualism. spiritualists. supernatural. technological apparatuses. technological engagement. technological. technology studies. ufos.
BF1045.S33
133