TY  - BOOK
AU  - Algranti,Miguel M.
AU  - Dippel,Anne
AU  - Espírito Santo,Diana
AU  - Hunter,Jack
AU  - Hüwelmeier,Gertrud
AU  - Lathrop Ligueros,Andrea
AU  - Liera Blanes,Ruy
AU  - Panagiotopoulos,Anastasios
AU  - Santo,Diana Espírito
AU  - Taddei,Renzo
AU  - Voss,Ehler
TI  - Mattering the Invisible: Technologies, Bodies, and the Realm of the Spectral 
SN  - 9781800730663
AV  - BF1045.S33 
U1  - 133 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Parapsychology and science
KW  - Technology
KW  - Miscellanea
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - animism
KW  - anthropology
KW  - atmospheric forces
KW  - cultural
KW  - discarnate entities
KW  - engaging
KW  - experiments
KW  - human minds
KW  - invisible beings
KW  - invisible worlds
KW  - life and death
KW  - modern technology
KW  - otherworldly
KW  - page turner
KW  - paranormal
KW  - particles
KW  - religion and spirituality
KW  - science and math
KW  - scientific discourse
KW  - scientific exploration
KW  - social science
KW  - social
KW  - spectral energies
KW  - spiritual
KW  - spiritualism
KW  - spiritualists
KW  - supernatural
KW  - technological apparatuses
KW  - technological engagement
KW  - technological
KW  - technology studies
KW  - ufos
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800730670?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781800730670
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781800730670/original
ER  -