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Phantasmagoria - Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media into the Twenty-first Century (Paperback)
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Phantasmagoria - Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media into the Twenty-first Century (Paperback)
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Phantasmagoria explores ideas of spirit and soul since the
Enlightenment; it traces metaphors that have traditionally conveyed
the presence of immaterial forces, and reveals how such pagan and
Christian imagery about ethereal beings is embedded in a logic of
the imagination, clothing spirits in the languages of air, clouds,
light and shadow, glass, and ether itself. Moving from Wax to Film,
the book discusses key questions of imagination and cognition, and
probes the perceived distinctions between fantasy and deception; it
uncovers a host of spirit forms - angels, ghosts, fairies,
revenants, and zombies - that are still actively present in
contemporary culture. It reveals how their transformations over
time illuminate changing idea about the self. Phantasmagoria also
tells the accompanying story about the means used to communicate
such ideas, and relates how the new technologies of the Victorian
era were applied to figuring the invisible and the impalpable, and
how magic lanterns (the phantasmagoria shows themselves), radio,
photography and then moving pictures spread ideas about spirit
forces. As the story unfolds, the book features many eminent
scientists and philosophers who applied their considerable energies
to the question of other worlds and other states of mind: they
staged trance seances in which mediums produced spirit phenomena,
including ectoplasm. Phantasmagoria shows how this often surprising
story connects with some of the important scientific discoveries of
a fertile age, in psychology and physics, and continues to
influence contemporary experience.
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