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Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, And Media Into The
Twenty-first Century By Marina Warner (Paperback, 2008)
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
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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