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Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: On the Materiality of Unseen Things
Diana Espirito Santo and Jack Hunter
PART I: BODILY SEMANTICS, METAPHOR & MEDIATION
Chapter 1. Organicism and Mechanism in Psychical Research: Reflections on the Mattering of Spirit Mediumship
Jack Hunter
Chapter 2. Semantics of the Suffering: Torture Technologies and Mediumship in Buenos Aires
Miguel Algranti
Chapter 3. New Media Technologies and the Otherworld in Postsocialist Vietnam
Gertrud Hüwelmeier
Chapter 4. Broken Words: Tools of Oracular Articulacy in Afro-Cuban Divination
Anastasios Panagiotopoulos
PART II: ORDERS OF SOUND, SIGHT, & MEASUREMENT
Chapter 5. Radioaficionados and UFOs: The Social Life of Radios in Chile
Diana Espírito Santo
Chapter 6. Hospitality and Proof: Human Mediums, Technical Media, and Controversial Knowledge in Ghost Hunting in the United States
Ehler Voss
Chapter 7. Picturing the Unseen: The Role of Polaroid Media in the Remystification of the Western World
Andrea Lathrop Ligueros
PART III: MATTERING INVISIBLE POWERS
Chapter 8. Specters of Climate and the Construction of Ghostly Realities in Brazil
Renzo Taddei
Chapter 9. Iktomi’s Realm: Reanimating the Inanimate in Western Science
Anne Dippel
Chapter 10. Phantom Power: Prophecy, Triangulation and Materialization in Angola
Ruy Blanes
Conclusion: Mediation and Variable Communications
Diana Espírito Santo & Jack Hunter
Index
Mattering the Invisible
Technologies, Bodies, and the Realm of the Spectral
Edited by Diana EspĂrito Santo and Jack Hunter
272 pages, 6 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-80073-066-3 Hb Published (May 2021)
eISBN 978-1-80073-067-0 eBook