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The machine and the ghost : Technology and spiritualism in nineteenth- to twenty-first-century art and culture /

This stimulating new collection of essays and interviews provides a fresh perspective of society's relationship with the spectral, the ghostly and the paranormal, viewed through our interaction with technology. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach and drawing upon case studies taken from photo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Matheson, Neil, 1954- (Editor ), Mays, Sas (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York [New York] : Manchester University Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : technologies, spiritualisms, and modernities / Sas Mays and Neil Matheson
  • 'It's organisms that die, not life' : Henri Bergson, psychical research, and the contemporary uses of vitalism / Justin Sausman
  • Typewriter, pianola, slate, phonograph : recording technologies and automisation / Aura Satz
  • 'Miraculous constellations in real material' : spiritualist phenomena, Dada photomontage, and magic / Leigh Wilson
  • Ectoplasm and photography : mediumistic performances for camera / Neil Matheson
  • Invasions and fakes / Susan Hiller in conversation with Alexandra Kokoli
  • Image, technology, enchantment / Marina Warner in conversation with Dan Smith
  • What happens in the gaps / an interview with Suzanne Treister by Roger Luckhurst
  • The ghosts of media past and present : spirit photography and contemporary art / Ben Burbridge
  • From the premodern to the postmodern : mnemotechnics and the ghost of 'the folk' / Sas Mays
  • Ruskin's haunted nature : art and the spectre of ecological catastrophe / Charlie Gere.