Research Catalog
The machine and the ghost : technology and spiritualism in nineteenth- to twenty-first-century art and culture
- Title
- The machine and the ghost : technology and spiritualism in nineteenth- to twenty-first-century art and culture / edited by Sas Mays, Neil Matheson.
- Publication
- Manchester, United Kingdom ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2013.
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Book/Text | Use in library | JFD 14-1302 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- xx, 230 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- 'The Machine and the Ghost' explores society's relationship with the spectral and the paranormal, read through our interaction with technology.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Contents
- Introduction : technologies, spiritualisms, and modernities / Sas Mays and Neil Matheson -- 'It's organisms that die, not life' : Henri Bergson, psychical research, and the contemporary uses of vitalism / Justin Sausman -- Typewriter, pianola, slate, phonograph : recording technologies and automisation / Aura Satz -- 'Miraculous constellations in real material' : spiritualist phenomena, Dada photomontage, and magic / Leigh Wilson -- Ectoplasm and photography : mediumistic performances for camera / Neil Matheson -- Invasions and fakes / Susan Hiller in conversation with Alexandra Kokoli -- Image, technology, enchantment / Marina Warner in conversation with Dan Smith -- What happens in the gaps / an interview with Suzanne Treister by Roger Luckhurst -- The ghosts of media past and present : spirit photography and contemporary art / Ben Burbridge -- From the premodern to the postmodern : mnemotechnics and the ghost of 'the folk' / Sas Mays -- Ruskin's haunted nature : art and the spectre of ecological catastrophe / Charlie Gere.
- Call Number
- JFD 14-1302
- ISBN
- 9780719090066 (hbk.)
- 0719090067 (hbk.)
- OCLC
- 858310640
- Title
- The machine and the ghost : technology and spiritualism in nineteenth- to twenty-first-century art and culture / edited by Sas Mays, Neil Matheson.
- Publisher
- Manchester, United Kingdom ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2013.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Added Author
- Mays, Sas, editor.Matheson, Neil, 1954- editor.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 14-1302