Mind Reading as a Cultural Practice
In: Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture
Introduction: Technologies of Mind Reading and Constellations of Testimony (Laurens Schlicht, Carla Seemann, Christian Kassung) -- Section I: Technology and Mind Reading -- I.I Media -- Electrical Potential: Mind Reading as Collaborative Action (Melissa M. Littlefield) -- The Omega Factor: The Revival of Mind Reading in the 1970s (Roger Luckhurst) -- Imaging the Mind: Photography, Neurology, and Neuroscience (Anthony Enns) -- I.II Magical Beliefs, Occult Practices -- 'Occult Technologies' for 'Mind Reading' – Hans Bender's Experiments with the Scriptoscope (Eberhard Bauer) -- How Stage Magic Perpetuates Magical Beliefs (Christine Mohr, Gustav Kuhn, Matthew Tompkins) -- Section II: Reading and Interpreting the Criminal Mind -- II.I Practices of Policing -- Debating psychologische Tatbestandsdiagnostik (Heather Wolffram) -- Reading the Criminal: Making Visible the Deviant Character in the Austrian School of Criminology (Christian Bachhiesl) -- Reading Children's Minds: Female Criminal Police and Psychology in Weimar Republic and Nazi Regime, the Cases of Maria Zillig and Berta Rathsam (Laurens Schlicht) -- II.II Mind Reading, Totalitarianism, and Political Control -- Techniques of Mind-Reading in Spanish Juridical Psychology (Annette Mülberger) -- Alienation of the Mind: Framing Mass Consciousness Through Show Trials in Early Soviet Ukraine (Yevhenii Monastyrskyi) -- Knowing Men: Behavioral Knowledge and Medial Forms of Mimesis in the Former Ministry for State Security (Stasi) (Sophia Gräfe).