The machine and the ghost : technology and spiritualism in nineteenth- to twenty-first-century art and culture / edited by Sas Mays, Neil Matheson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mays, Sas, editor.

Matheson, Neil, 1954- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Occultism in art--Case studies.

Occultism in art.

Technology and the arts--Case studies.

Technology and the arts.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xx, 230 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester, United Kingdom ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2013.

Summary:

'The Machine and the Ghost' explores society's relationship with the spectral and the paranormal, read through our interaction with technology.

Contents:

1 'It's organisms that die, not life': Henri Bergson, psychical research, and the contemporary uses of vitalism / Justin Sausman Sausman, Justin 16

2 Typewriter, pianola, slate, phonograph: recording technologies and automisation / Aura Satz Satz, Aura 37

3 'Miraculous constellations in real material': spiritualist phenomena, Dada photomontage, and magic / Leigh Wilson Wilson, Leigh 57

4 Ectoplasm and photography: mediumistic performances for camera / Neil Matheson Matheson, Neil 78

5 Invasions and fakes / Susan Hiller Hiller, Susan, Alexandra Kokoli Kokoli, Alexandra 103

6 Image, technology, enchantment / Marina Warner Warner, Marina, Dan Smith Smith, Dan 123

7 What happens in the gaps / Suzanne Treister Treister, Suzanne, Roger Luckhurst Luckhurst, Roger 140

8 The ghosts of media past and present: spirit photography and contemporary art / Ben Burbridge Burbridge, Ben 158

9 From the premodern to the postmodern: mnemotechnics and the ghost of 'the folk' / Sets Mays Mays, Sets 180

10 Ruskin's haunted nature: art and the spectre of ecological catastrophe / Charlie Gere Gere, Charlie 202.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780719090066

0719090067

OCLC:

858310640