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The machine and the ghost
Technology and spiritualism in nineteenth- to twenty-first-century art and culture
- 230 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
The machine and the ghost
Technology and spiritualism in nineteenth- to twenty-first-century art and culture
About this book
Focusing on our complex relationship with technology, The machine and the ghost explores our culture's continued fascination with the spectral, the ghostly and the paranormal. Through a series of critical case studies and artists' discussions, this lively new collection examines topics ranging from contemporary art to cultural theory. Produced with renowned specialists within the field, including the artist Susan Hiller and the writer Marina Warner, the book combines the historical with the contemporary in exploring how the visual culture of paranormal phenomena continues to haunt our imaginations. Informed by history and the visual tradition of spiritualism and psychical research, the collection is very much concerned to site that tradition within our contemporary concerns, such as landscape and environment, and recent technological developments. Aimed at a broad academic and cultural audience, the collection will appeal to all academic levels in addition to those interested in art and culture more widely.
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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 ‘It’s organisms that die, not life’: Henri Bergson, psychical research, and the contemporary uses of vitalism
- 2 Typewriter, pianola, slate, phonograph: recording technologies and automisation
- 3 ‘Miraculous constellations in real material’: 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 ‘the folk’
- 10 Ruskin’s haunted nature: art and the spectre of ecological catastrophe
- Index
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