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Mattering the invisible : technologies, bodies, and the realm of the spectral /
"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 centra...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn,
2021.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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