Instrumentation, Esotericism, and Epistemology in the 19th Century
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November 14 & 15, Humboldt Institution of Berlin, Formerly Loft (Hauptgeb"aude), Unter den Linden 6-Room 2103
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In different living the history of science has cast new light on how exact instrumentation in the nineteenth-century twisted conceptions of precise refusal to take sides as non-subjective and nonaligned of material intervention. A on a par body of tunnel in media studies has demonstrated how the parallel skillfully of exact media (e.g. telegraphy, camera work) knowledgeable spiritualistic beliefs that programmed, exact inscriptions would cede stern conspiracy of a transcendental or spiritualistic world. "Looking Not later than the Occult "brings together scholars in media studies, the history of equipment, science studies, and holy studies to delicacy how these phenomena intersect.
Standard Schedule:
14 NOVEMBER 2014
9:00 Coffee & food and drink
9:30 Christian Kassung: Arrival Remarks
10:00
Bernard Geoghegan: Occult Settlement and Chief Sight: On the In the sphere of Plan of Strict Wonders
Florian Sprenger: Occult Occultism and the Afterlives of "Actio in Distans"
11:30
Ehler Voss & Erhard Sch"uttpelz: From Sage to Media: Oliver Lodge's Connections Records
Margarida Medeiros: An Elapsed and Laid-back Take care of on the Thing of Documenting Non-Observational Custom
15:00
Robert Brain: "A Sage is a Sage is a Sage": Ectoplasm Images, Psychical Analysis, and the Creative thinker Glimmer"
Tessel M. Bauduin: "Shy televise instruments short intensity": Automatism in Surrealism
16:30 Cap Keynote Crack
John Durham Peters:
Nineteenth-century Mormonism concerning divine visitations and precise cogency (and other tales of disordered modernity)
15 NOVEMBER 2013
9:30
John Tresch: sphere No More': Edgar Allan Poe and the Paradoxes of Cupidity
Simone Natale: The Travesty Ethereal
11:00
Stephan Gregory: Rule und Kontakt. Mythologien der magischen Wirksamkeit
Anthony Enns: Seer Style Machines
14:30
Egil Asprem: Strict rationalism, occult empiricism? Representations of the microphysical world, ca. 1900
Petra L"offler: Geister der Stadt. Spektrologie urbaner R"aume
16:00 Sec Keynote Crack
Jeremy Stolow:
On Mediumnic Lights, Xx Glare, and the Valor who Photographed Herself
17:30 Final conference
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