Mediality on Trial: Testing and Contesting Trance and other Media Techniques

668 Pages·2020·31.355 MB·German

by  Ehler Voss (editor)

EhlerVoss(Ed.)
MedialityonTrial
Okkulte Moderne
Beiträge zur Nichthegemonialen Innovation
Herausgegeben von
Christian Kassung,
Sylvia Paletschek,
Erhard Schüttpelz und
Helmut Zander
Band 2
Mediality on Trial
Testing and Contesting Trance and other Media
Techniques
Edited by
Ehler Voss
GedrucktmitUnterstützungderDeutschenForschungsgemeinschaft.
ISBN978-3-11-041636-7
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Contents
Introduction
EhlerVoss
TheMediumisticTrial.TestingandContestingtheThresholdsofAgency,
Consciousness,andTechnology 3
MediumisticTrials oftheLong 19thCentury
KarlBaier
TheTherapeuticMediologiesofAnimalMagnetism 33
ErhardSchüttpelzandEhlerVoss
QuiteasPowerful.TheMediumisticControversyinthe19thCentury 67
JannyLi
ACaseofQuasi-Certainty.WilliamJamesandtheMakingofthe
SubliminalMind 78
EhlerVoss
EducatingtheMediums.AlbertvonSchrenck-Notzing’sWork
ofPurificationonSpiritualism 106
SonuShamdasani
‘S.W.’andC.G.Jung:FromMediumshiptoAnalyticalPsychology 121
MediumisticTrials oftheShort20th Century
UlrichLinse
TheBraunauTranceMediumsandtheirSpiritualistCircleBetween
theTwoWorldWars.ALocalStudy 145
ErhardSchüttpelzandEhlerVoss
PassingtheExamination.TheMediumisticTrialanditsDouble
intheWritingsofJeanneFavret-Saada 209
VIII Contents
AndrewVentimiglia
TheAngelintheMachine.DiviningLegalAuthorshipinChannelled
andComputer-GeneratedWorks 236
AnnaLux
TheReturnoftheControversy.TestingPsychicsinthe1970s
anditsConsequencesforGermanParapsychology 261
UweSchellinger
ClairvoyancefortheSecurityoftheRepublic.GerardCroiset
andtheSearchforHannsMartinSchleyer(1977) 284
EhlerVoss
CaliforniaDreamin’.TheInventionofModernWesternShamanism
asaMediumisticTrialofthe20thCentury 315
IlkaBecker
MediatorsofTrance.MaríaSabina–GordonWasson–BruceConner 339
AnthonyEnns
PsychicSpies.ColdWarScienceandtheMilitary-OccultComplex 370
MediumisticTrials ofthe21st Century
EgilAsprem
TheMagusofSiliconValley.Immortality,Apocalypse,andGodMaking
inRayKurzweil’sTranshumanism 397
EhlerVoss
FightingtheFakersandFoolingtheFighters.SkepticsbetweenTriumph
andAgony,or:TheBirthoftheSkepticalMovementfromtheSpirit
ofMagic 413
ErinYerby
MediatingSpirits.Sensation,FormandtheBodyinAmerican
Spiritualism 432
Contents IX
CarlyMachadoandRaquelSant’Ana
Mediating“Mystery”.Pentecostalism,theMedia,andtheSocial
ProductionofHopeandSuspicionintheBrazilianCrimeDebate 475
MirkoUhlig
“ItIsEasiertoStayOutthanGetOut”.ASweatLodgeRitual,
theEntangledEthnographeronTrial,andIronyasaStancefor
AnthropologicalAnalysis 496
EhlerVoss
ShamanismonTrial.ActinginaHallofMirrors 513
HeikeBehrend
“Iknow. . .butstill.”PopularPhotographyandtheMediation
ofLuckinJapan 538
J.BrentCrosson
BurdensofProof.Obeah,PetroleumGeology,anditsMediums
inTrinidad 552
RukiyeCanlı
SufiPractices,theMasters’RoleandtheMediaofLegitimacy.
OntheCoincidenceofTechnicalMediaandSufiMediums 576
GrahamM.Jones
Purity’sPerils.Race,Republicanism,andRelevanceofMagic
inContemporaryFrance 605
Epilogue
EhlerVoss
“IBelieveinScienceNow!”SkepticsBetweenHope,Fear,andLoathing
inLasVegas 627
ListofContributors 637
NameIndex 643
PlaceIndex 655