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The machine and the ghost
Technology and spiritualism in nineteenth- to twenty-first-century art and culture
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eBook - ePub
The machine and the ghost
Technology and spiritualism in nineteenth- to twenty-first-century art and culture
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Explores society's relationship with the spectral and the paranormal, read through our interaction with technology
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: technologies, spiritualisms, and modernities
- 1 āItās organisms that die, not lifeā: Henri Bergson, psychical research, and the contemporary uses of vitalism
- 2 Typewriter, pianola, slate, phonograph: recording technologies and automisation
- 3 āMiraculous constellations in real materialā: spiritualist phenomena, Dada photomontage, and magic
- 4 Ectoplasm and photography: mediumistic performances for camera
- 5 Invasions and fakes
- 6 Image, technology, enchantment
- 7 What happens in the gaps
- 8 The ghosts of media past and present: spirit photography and contemporary art
- 9 From the premodern to the postmodern: mnemotechnics and the ghost of āthe folkā
- 10 Ruskinās haunted nature: art and the spectre of ecological catastrophe
- Index