The machine and the ghost : Technology and spiritualism in nineteenth- to twenty-first-century art and culture.

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 ran...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Mays, Sas
Other Authors: Matheson, Neil
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Manchester University Press, 2016.
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505 0 |a The machine and the ghost: Technology and spiritualism in nineteenth-to twenty-first-century art and culture; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: technologies, spiritualisms, and modernities: Sas Mays and Neil Matheson; 1. 'It's organisms that die, notlife': Henri Bergson, psychical research, and the contemporary uses of vitalism: Justin Sausman; 2. Typewriter, pianola, slate, phonograph: recording technologies and automisation: Aura Satz. 
505 8 |a 3. 'Miraculous constellations in realmaterial': spiritualist phenomena, Dada photomontage, and magic: Leigh Wilson4. Ectoplasm and photography: mediumistic performances for camera: Neil Matheson; 5. Invasions and fakes: Susan Hiller in conversation with Alexandra Kokoli; 6. Image, technology, enchantment: Marina Warner in conversation with Dan Smith; 7. What happens in the gaps: An interview with Suzanne Treister by Roger Luckhurst; 8. The ghosts of media past and present: spirit photography and contemporary art: Ben Burbridge¹ 
505 8 |a 9. 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 Gere; Index. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
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