Renaud Evrard and Philippe Baudouin - Weird science. Bref inventaire illustré des inventions techniques de la parapsychologie. - a podcast by Média Médiums - A series of lectures on technology and the spirit world / Une série de conférences sur la technologie et le monde spirite
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The interest in the question of the occult for a certain fringe zone of the scientific community came to a head in 1848 following the accounts of the spirit phenomena of the Fox sisters. Table-turning and other paranormal experiences, which became wide-spread in the United States and Europe during the second half of the 19th century, pushed researchers to consider these unexplainable events as new objects for scientific experimentation. In parallel to the numerous inventions which came into view at the beginning of the 20th century, a certain number of researchers attempted to produce tools and machines to analyse these phenomena in their laboratories. From the spirit telegraph to parapsychological applications for smartphone, the inventory of these often forgotten or little known technical objects allows a glimse onto a possible technical history of parapsychology which we propose to retrace.
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Philippe Baudouin is broadcast director at France Culture and the author of features for Arte Radio. He has a master's degree in the philosopy of art and is the author of “Au microphone - Dr. Walter Benjamin” (Inathèque Prize 2009), in the Philia collection, éditions MSH. He recently published a collection of unpublished radio pieces by Walter Benjamin, "Ecrits radiophoniques", éditions Allia. He is currently preparing a book on the archeology of radio, which will be published by the Presses Universitaires de France.
Renaud Evrard is a clinical psychologist working in adult psychiatry and associate member at the psychology laboratory EA 3071 at the University of Strasbourg, France. In 2012, he obtained a Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Rouen, with a thesis on clinical differential practice with exceptional experiences published under the title "Madness and Paranormal" (PUR, 2014). With Thomas Rabeyron, he co-founded in 2009 the Center for Information, Research and Counselling on Exceptional Experiences(www.circee.org).
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