TY - BOOK ID - 64922291 TI - Mind Reading as a Cultural Practice AU - Schlicht, Laurens. AU - Seemann, Carla. AU - Kassung, Christian. PY - 2020 SN - 3030394190 3030394182 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - Psychology. KW - Behavioral sciences KW - Mental philosophy KW - Mind KW - Science, Mental KW - Human biology KW - Philosophy KW - Soul KW - Mental health KW - Popular Culture. KW - Popular Culture . KW - Culture, Popular KW - Mass culture KW - Pop culture KW - Popular arts KW - Communication KW - Intellectual life KW - Mass society KW - Recreation KW - Culture UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:64922291 AB - This book provides a genealogical perspective on various forms of mind reading in different settings. We understand mind reading in a broad sense as the twentieth-century attempt to generate knowledge of what people held in their minds – with a focus on scientifically-based governmental practices. This volume considers the techniques of mind reading within a wider perspective of discussions about technological innovation within neuroscience, the juridical system, “occult” practices and discourses within the wider field of parapsychology and magical beliefs. The authors address the practice of, and discourses on, mind reading as they form part of the consolidation of modern governmental techniques. The collected contributions explore the question of how these techniques have been epistemically formed, institutionalized, practiced, discussed, and how they have been used to shape forms of subjectivities – collectively through human consciousness or individually through the criminal, deviant, or spiritual subject. The first part of this book focuses on the technologies and media of mind reading, while the second part addresses practices of mind reading as they have been used within the juridical sphere. The volume is of interest to a broad scholarly readership dealing with topics in interdisciplinary fields such as the history of science, history of knowledge, cultural studies, and techniques of subjectivization. ER -