Mattering the invisible : technologies, bodies, and the realm of the spectral /: technologies, bodies, and the realm of the spectral. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Diana Espírito Santo and Jack Hunter.
• Editors: Espirito Santo, Diana; (Spiritualist), Hunter, Jack
• 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
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 133; Parapsychology and science; Technology -- Miscellanea
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781800730670
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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