Machine and the Ghost

Technology and Spiritualism in Nineteenth- to Twenty-First-Century Art and Culture

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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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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Utgivningsdatum:2013-09-30
Mått:138 x 216 x 25 mm
Vikt:452 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Manchester University Press
ISBN:9780719090066

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Sas Mays is Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Critical Theory at the University of Westminster, LondonNeil Matheson is Senior Lecturer in Theory and Criticism of Photography at the University of Westminster, London

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Introduction: technologies, spiritualisms, and modernities1. ‘It’s organisms that die, not life’: Henri Bergson, psychical research, and the contemporary uses of vitalism – Justin Sausman2. Typewriter, pianola, slate, phonograph: recording technologies and automisation – Aura Satz3. ‘Miraculous constellations in real material’: spiritualist phenomena, Dada photomontage and magic – Leigh Wilson4. Ectoplasm and photography: mediumistic performances for camera – Neil Matheson5. Invasions and fakes – Susan Hiller in conversation with Alexandra Kokoli6. Image, technology, enchantment – Marina Warner in conversation with Dan Smith7. What happens in the gaps – An interview with Suzanne Treister by Roger Luckhurst8. The ghosts of media past and present: spirit photography and contemporary art – Ben Burbridge9. From the premodern to the postmodern: mnemotechnics and the ghost of ‘the Folk’ – Sas Mays10. Ruskin's haunted nature: art and the spectre of ecological catastrophe – Charlie GereIndex