Mattering the Invisible

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Acknowledgements

Introduction: On the Materiality of Unseen Things
Diana Espirito Santo and Jack Hunter

PART I: BODILY SEMANTICS, METAPHOR & MEDIATION

Chapter 1. Organicism and Mechanism in Psychical Research: Reflections on the Mattering of Spirit Mediumship
Jack Hunter

Chapter 2. Semantics of the Suffering: Torture Technologies and Mediumship in Buenos Aires
Miguel Algranti

Chapter 3. New Media Technologies and the Otherworld in Postsocialist Vietnam
Gertrud Hüwelmeier

Chapter 4. Broken Words: Tools of Oracular Articulacy in Afro-Cuban Divination
Anastasios Panagiotopoulos

PART II: ORDERS OF SOUND, SIGHT, & MEASUREMENT

Chapter 5. Radioaficionados and UFOs: The Social Life of Radios in Chile
Diana Espírito Santo

Chapter 6. Hospitality and Proof: Human Mediums, Technical Media, and Controversial Knowledge in Ghost Hunting in the United States
Ehler Voss

Chapter 7. Picturing the Unseen: The Role of Polaroid Media in the Remystification of the Western World
Andrea Lathrop Ligueros

PART III: MATTERING INVISIBLE POWERS

Chapter 8. Specters of Climate and the Construction of Ghostly Realities in Brazil
Renzo Taddei

Chapter 9. Iktomi’s Realm: Reanimating the Inanimate in Western Science
Anne Dippel

Chapter 10. Phantom Power: Prophecy, Triangulation and Materialization in Angola
Ruy Blanes

Conclusion: Mediation and Variable Communications
Diana Espírito Santo & Jack Hunter

Index