Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Figures VII
4. Acknowledgments VIII
5. Introduction On the Materiality of Unseen Things 1
6. Part I Bodily Semantics, Metaphor, and Mediation
7. Chapter 1 Organicism and Psychical Research Where Mediums and Mushrooms Meet 23
8. Chapter 2. Semantics of the Suffering: Torture Technologies and Mediumship in Buenos Aires 46
9. Chapter 3 Media Technologies and the Otherworld in Late Socialist Vietnam 67
10. Chapter 4. Broken Words: Tools of Oracular Articulacy in Afro-Cuban Divination 90
11. Part II Orders of Sound, Sight, and Measurement
12. Chapter 5. Radioaficionados and UFOs: The Social Life of Radios in Chile 109
13. Chapter 6. Hospitality and Proof: Human Mediums, Technical Media, and Controversial Knowledge in Ghost-Hunting Practices in the United States 132
14. Chapter 7. Picturing the Unseen: Polaroid Practice and the Re-enchantment of the Western World 153
15. Part III Mattering Invisible Powers
16. Chapter 8. Specters of Climate and the Construction of Ghostly Realities in Brazil 177
17. Chapter 9. Ontological Opportunism: Reanimating the Inanimate in Physics and Science Communication at CERN 200
18. Chapter 10. Phantom Power, Parallax, and the Multiple Cities of Luanda: Manifestation and Materialization in Angola 222
19. Conclusion. Mediation and Variable Communications 243
20. Index 259