Mind Reading as a Cultural Practice

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).