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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.
Table des matières
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
A propos de l'auteur
Diana Espírito Santo currently works as Associate Professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She has published many articles and has co-edited four volumes, including The Social Life of Spirits (2013, University of Chicago Press) with Ruy Blanes.
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).
