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The machine and the ghost : Technology and spiritualism in nineteenth- to twenty-first-century art and culture.
Focusing on our complex relationship with technology, The machine and the ghost explores our culture's continued fascination with the spectral, the ghostly and the paranormal. Through a series of critical case studies and artists' discussions, this lively new collection examines topics ran...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Manchester University Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- The machine and the ghost: Technology and spiritualism in nineteenth-to twenty-first-century art and culture; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: technologies, spiritualisms, and modernities: Sas Mays and Neil Matheson; 1. 'It's organisms that die, notlife': Henri Bergson, psychical research, and the contemporary uses of vitalism: Justin Sausman; 2. Typewriter, pianola, slate, phonograph: recording technologies and automisation: Aura Satz.
- 3. 'Miraculous constellations in realmaterial': spiritualist phenomena, Dada photomontage, and magic: Leigh Wilson4. Ectoplasm and photography: mediumistic performances for camera: Neil Matheson; 5. Invasions and fakes: Susan Hiller in conversation with Alexandra Kokoli; 6. Image, technology, enchantment: Marina Warner in conversation with Dan Smith; 7. What happens in the gaps: An interview with Suzanne Treister by Roger Luckhurst; 8. The ghosts of media past and present: spirit photography and contemporary art: Ben Burbridge¹
- 9. From the premodern to the postmodern: mnemotechnics and the ghost of 'the folk': Sas Mays10. Ruskin's haunted nature: art and the spectre of ecological catastrophe: Charlie Gere; Index.