{"product_id":"mattering-the-invisible-technologies-bodies-and-the-realm-of-the-spectral-9781800730663","title":"Mattering the Invisible: Technologies, Bodies,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tExploring 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“\u003c\/em\u003eMattering the Invisible \u003cem\u003ehas much to offer religious studies scholars by exemplifying and expanding the possibilities of what constitutes material culture.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Nova Religio\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“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.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Marcelo Moura Mello\u003c\/strong\u003e, Federal University of Bahia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Figures\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e On the Materiality of Unseen Things\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDiana Espirito Santo and Jack Hunter\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART I: BODILY SEMANTICS, METAPHOR \u0026amp; MEDIATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e Organicism and Mechanism in Psychical Research: Reflections on the Mattering of Spirit Mediumship\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJack Hunter\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Semantics of the Suffering: Torture Technologies and Mediumship in Buenos Aires\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMiguel Algranti\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e New Media Technologies and the Otherworld in Postsocialist Vietnam\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eGertrud Hüwelmeier\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Broken Words: Tools of Oracular Articulacy in Afro-Cuban Divination\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAnastasios Panagiotopoulos\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART II: ORDERS OF SOUND, SIGHT, \u0026amp; MEASUREMENT\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Radioaficionados and UFOs: The Social Life of Radios in Chile\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDiana Espírito Santo\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e Hospitality and Proof: Human Mediums, Technical Media, and Controversial Knowledge in Ghost Hunting in the United States\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eEhler Voss\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e Picturing the Unseen: The Role of Polaroid Media in the Remystification of the Western World\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAndrea Lathrop Ligueros\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART III: MATTERING INVISIBLE POWERS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e Specters of Climate and the Construction of Ghostly Realities in Brazil\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRenzo Taddei\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e Iktomi’s Realm: Reanimating the Inanimate in Western Science\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAnne Dippel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e Phantom Power: Prophecy, Triangulation and Materialization in Angola\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRuy Blanes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eConclusion:\u003c\/strong\u003e Mediation and Variable Communications\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDiana Espírito Santo \u0026amp; Jack Hunter\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042738831703,"sku":"9781800730663","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mattering-the-invisible-technologies-bodies-and-the-realm-of-the-spectral-9781800730663","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}