Machine and the Ghost

Sas Mays is Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Critical Theory at the University of Westminster, LondonNeil Matheson is Senior Lecturer in Theory and Criticism of Photography at the University of Westminster, London

• Introduction: technologies, spiritualisms, and modernities1. ‘It’s organisms that die, not life’: Henri Bergson, psychical research, and the contemporary uses of vitalism – Justin Sausman2. Typewriter, pianola, slate, phonograph: recording technologies and automisation – Aura Satz3. ‘Miraculous constellations in real material’: spiritualist phenomena, Dada photomontage and magic – Leigh Wilson4. Ectoplasm and photography: mediumistic performances for camera – Neil Matheson5. Invasions and fakes – Susan Hiller in conversation with Alexandra Kokoli6. Image, technology, enchantment – Marina Warner in conversation with Dan Smith7. What happens in the gaps – An interview with Suzanne Treister by Roger Luckhurst8. The ghosts of media past and present: spirit photography and contemporary art – Ben Burbridge9. 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 GereIndex