Technologies of magic: a cultural study of ghosts, machines and the uncanny

Contents Introduction Part one: The persistence of magic in modernity: Scott McQuire, Dream cities : the uncanny powers of electric light; Rachel Moore, Love machines; Annette Hamilton, The uncanny in object relations, or, the emergent ethnography of machine love; Patricia Pringle, The spatial implications of stage magic. Part two: Ghosts and their machines: Anne Cranny-Francis, The ghost in/on the machine: magic, technology and the "modest witness" John Potts, The idea of the ghost; Stephen Muecke, Contingency on the island of ghosts. Part three: New technologies and their doubles: Andrew Murphie, Magic and consciousness; Chris Chesher, The muse and the electronic invocator; Edward Scheer, Stelarc, magic and cyber-ritual