Abstract
This essay is about the ghost as an idea that does cultural work in most, if not all, cultures. Its basic premise – that of an immaterial presence haunting the living – is the same everywhere, but it has many variants. Yet the specific demands of cultural context – the various times and places in which the ghost-idea is employed – inflect the general idea in distinctive ways. This essay focuses on one of these inflections: the contemporary Western popular discourse on ghosts, flourishing most evidently on the internet.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Technologies of magic |
| Subtitle of host publication | a cultural study of ghosts, machines and the uncanny |
| Place of Publication | Sydney, NSW |
| Publisher | Power Publications |
| Pages | 78-91 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| ISBN (Print) | 0909952353 |
| Publication status | Published - 2006 |
Keywords
- technology
- supernatural
- culture