Articulate Necrographies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Articulate Necrographies write by Anastasios Panagiotopoulos. This book was released on 2019-07-16. Articulate Necrographies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. No detailed description available for "Articulate Necrographies".
Postmortal Society
Postmortal Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Postmortal Society write by Michael Hviid Jacobsen. This book was released on 2017-03-31. Postmortal Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Throughout history mankind has struggled to reconcile itself with the inescapability of its own mortality. This book explores the themes of immortality and survivalism in contemporary culture, shedding light on the varied and ingenious ways in which humans and human societies aspire to confront and deal with death, or even seek to outlive it, as it were. Bringing together theoretical and empirical work from internationally acclaimed scholars across a range of disciplines, Postmortal Society offers studies of the strategies adopted and means available in modern society for trying to ‘cheat’ death or prolong life, the status of the dead in the modern Western world, the effects of beliefs that address the terror of death in other areas of life, the ‘immortalisation’ of celebrities, the veneration of the dead in virtual worlds, symbolic immortality through work, the implications of understanding ‘immortality’ in chemical-neuronal terms, and the apparent paradox of our greater reverence for the dead in increasingly secular, capitalist societies. A fascinating collection of studies that explore humanity’s attempts to deal with its own mortality in the modern age, this book will appeal to sociologists, anthropologists, philosophers and scholars of cultural studies with interests in death and dying.
Mattering the Invisible
Mattering the Invisible - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mattering the Invisible write by Diana Espírito Santo. This book was released on 2021-05-14. Mattering the Invisible available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exploring how technological apparatuses “capture” invisible worlds, this book looks at how spirits, UFOs, discarnate entities, spectral energies, atmospheric forces and particles are mattered into existence by human minds. Technological and scientific discourse has always been central to the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century spiritualist quest for legitimacy, but as this book shows, machines, people, and invisible beings are much more ontologically entangled in their definitions and constitution than we would expect. The book shows this entanglement through a series of contemporary case studies where the realm of the invisible arises through technological engagement, and where the paranormal intertwines with modern technology.
Other Worlds, Other Bodies
Other Worlds, Other Bodies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Other Worlds, Other Bodies write by Emily Pierini. This book was released on 2023-02-10. Other Worlds, Other Bodies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When approaching the multiplicity of the spiritual experiences of healing, ethnographers are often presented with ideas of the existence of “other” worlds that may intersect with the so-called “material” or “physical” worlds. This book proposes a sensory ethnography of healing with a focus on ethnographic knowing as embedded in an embodied epistemology of healing. Epistemological embodiment signals that personal scholarly experience of the “unknown”—be it in the form of trance, or as the embodiment of an “other”—shapes the concepts of healing, body, trance, self, and matter by which ethnographers craft out analysis.
South Asian Gothic
South Asian Gothic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook South Asian Gothic write by Katarzyna Ancuta. This book was released on 2021-11-15. South Asian Gothic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. South Asian Gothic engages key debates in the study of an area that is seriously overlooked within the field of Gothic studies. It widens and deepens the critical analysis of the gothic themes and conventions in the texts produced outside the Anglo-American context usually associated with gothic. This book pays attention to various political, historical and aesthetical configurations in South Asia and is the first attempt to theorise South Asia and its Gothic production as a common cultural landscape. Therefore, the volume will be relevant to scholars and students in the field of South Asian studies. The volume investigates a wide range of different cultural media and, therefore, is also relevant to media studies and related disciplines including literary criticism, film studies, postcolonial studies, and world cinema studies.
