Mediality on Trial : Testing and Contesting Trance and other Media Techniques / Ehler Voss.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Voss, Ehler, editor.

Walter de Gruyter & Co.

Series:

Okkulte Moderne

Okkulte Moderne ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Philosophy.

Mass media.

Genre:

Dictionaries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (IX, 657 pages).

Place of Publication:

München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file PDF

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

The Mediumistic Trial. Testing and Contesting the Thresholds of Agency, Consciousness, and Technology

The Therapeutic Mediologies of Animal Magnetism

Quite as Powerful. The Mediumistic Controversy in the 19th Century

A Case of Quasi-Certainty. William James and the Making of the Subliminal Mind

Educating the Mediums. Albert von Schrenck-Notzing's Work of Purification on Spiritualism

'S. W.' and C. G. Jung: From Mediumship to Analytical Psychology

The Braunau Trance Mediums and their Spiritualist Circle Between the Two World Wars. A Local Study

Passing the Examination. The Mediumistic Trial and its Double in the Writings of Jeanne Favret-Saada

The Angel in the Machine. Divining Legal Authorship in Channelled and Computer-Generated Works

The Return of the Controversy. Testing Psychics in the 1970s and its Consequences for German Parapsychology

Clairvoyance for the Security of the Republic. Gerard Croiset and the Search for Hanns Martin Schleyer (1977)

California Dreamin'. The Invention of Modern Western Shamanism as a Mediumistic Trial of the 20th Century

Mediators of Trance. María Sabina - Gordon Wasson - Bruce Conner

Psychic Spies. Cold War Science and the Military-Occult Complex

The Magus of Silicon Valley. Immortality, Apocalypse, and God Making in Ray Kurzweil's Transhumanism

Fighting the Fakers and Fooling the Fighters. Skeptics between Triumph and Agony, or: The Birth of the Skeptical Movement from the Spirit of Magic

Mediating Spirits. Sensation, Form and the Body in American Spiritualism

Mediating "Mystery". Pentecostalism, the Media, and the Social Production of Hope and Suspicion in the Brazilian Crime Debate

"It Is Easier to Stay Out than Get Out". A Sweat Lodge Ritual, the Entangled Ethnographer on Trial, and Irony as a Stance for Anthropological Analysis

Shamanism on Trial. Acting in a Hall of Mirrors

"I know . . . but still." Popular Photography and the Mediation of Luck in Japan

Burdens of Proof. Obeah, Petroleum Geology, and its Mediums in Trinidad

Sufi Practices, the Masters' Role and the Media of Legitimacy. On the Coincidence of Technical Media and Sufi Mediums

Purity's Perils. Race, Republicanism, and Relevance of Magic in Contemporary France

"I Believe in Science Now!" Skeptics Between Hope, Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas

List of Contributors

Name Index

Place Index

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Sep 2020).

Other Format:

Print version: Mediality on Trial :.

ISBN:

9783110416411

3110416417

Publisher Number:

40030294655

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.