Mattering the Invisible

Technologies, Bodies, and the Realm of the Spectral

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-05-05
Mått157 x 235 x 19 mm
Vikt554 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor272
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781800730663

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List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: On the Materiality of Unseen ThingsDiana Espirito Santo and Jack HunterPART I: BODILY SEMANTICS, METAPHOR & MEDIATIONChapter 1. Organicism and Mechanism in Psychical Research: Reflections on the Mattering of Spirit MediumshipJack HunterChapter 2. Semantics of the Suffering: Torture Technologies and Mediumship in Buenos AiresMiguel AlgrantiChapter 3. New Media Technologies and the Otherworld in Postsocialist VietnamGertrud HüwelmeierChapter 4. Broken Words: Tools of Oracular Articulacy in Afro-Cuban DivinationAnastasios PanagiotopoulosPART II: ORDERS OF SOUND, SIGHT, & MEASUREMENTChapter 5. Radioaficionados and UFOs: The Social Life of Radios in ChileDiana Espírito SantoChapter 6. Hospitality and Proof: Human Mediums, Technical Media, and Controversial Knowledge in Ghost Hunting in the United StatesEhler VossChapter 7. Picturing the Unseen: The Role of Polaroid Media in the Remystification of the Western WorldAndrea Lathrop LiguerosPART III: MATTERING INVISIBLE POWERSChapter 8. Specters of Climate and the Construction of Ghostly Realities in BrazilRenzo TaddeiChapter 9. Iktomi’s Realm: Reanimating the Inanimate in Western ScienceAnne DippelChapter 10. Phantom Power: Prophecy, Triangulation and Materialization in AngolaRuy BlanesConclusion: Mediation and Variable CommunicationsDiana Espírito Santo & Jack HunterIndex

“Mattering the Invisible has much to offer religious studies scholars by exemplifying and expanding the possibilities of what constitutes material culture.” • Nova Religio“The volume brings together a heterogenous and international group of scholars who present a wealth of information of different practices of mattering the invisible… makes a significant contribution to anthropology, and offers innovative contributions to those interested in media studies, materiality, science and technology studies.” • Marcelo Moura Mello, Federal University of Bahia