Mays / Unknown / Matheson The machine and the ghost

Technology and spiritualism in nineteenth- to twenty-first-century art and culture
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1211-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Explores society’s relationship with the spectral and the paranormal, read through our interaction with technology

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Mays, Sas

Matheson, Neil

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: technologies, spiritualisms, and modernities
1. ‘It’s organisms that die, not life’: 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 real material’: spiritualist phenomena, Dada photomontage and magic – Leigh Wilson
4. 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 Burbridge
9. From the premodern to the postmodern: mnemotechnics and the ghost of ‘the Folk’ – Sas Mays
10. Ruskin's haunted nature: art and the spectre of ecological catastrophe – Charlie Gere
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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

Neil Matheson is Senior Lecturer in Theory and Criticism of Photography at the University of Westminster, London