Mediality on Trial : Testing and Contesting Trance and Other Media Techniques
This volume addresses controversies connected to the testing of the capacities and potentials of mediums. Today we commonly associate the term'medium'with the technical communication between transmitters and receivers. Yet this term likewise applies to those who cooperate with agencies that exceed t...
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De Gruyter Oldenbourg
2020
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