Strange Frequencies
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  • Published: 23 October 2018
  • ISBN: 9780525642435
  • Imprint: RH US Audio Adult
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $23.00
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Strange Frequencies

The Extraordinary Story of the Technological Quest for the Supernatural

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23 Oct 2018
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A journey through the attempts artists, scientists, and tinkerers have made to imagine and communicate with the otherworldly using various technologies, from cameras to radiowaves.

Strange Frequencies takes readers on an extraordinary narrative and historical journey to discover how people have used technology in an effort to search for our own immortality. Bebergal builds his own ghostly gadgets to reach the other side, too, and follows the path of famous inventors, engineers, seekers, and seers who attempted to answer life's ultimate mysteries. He finds that not only are technological innovations potent metaphors keeping our spiritual explorations alive, but literal tools through which to experiment the boundaries of the physical world and our own psyches.

Peter takes the reader alongside as he explores:

  • the legend of the golem and the strange history of automata;
  • a photographer who is trying to capture the physical manifestation of spirits;
  • a homemaker who has recorded voicemails from the dead;
  • a stage magician who combines magic and technology to alter his audience's consciousness;
  • and more.
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    • Published: 23 October 2018
    • ISBN: 9780525642435
    • Imprint: RH US Audio Adult
    • Format: Audio Download
    • RRP: $23.00
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    About the author

    Peter Bebergal

    Peter Bebergal is a writer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His writing on speculative and fringe cultures have been published by the Believer, the Times Literary Supplement, the New Yorker, Boing Boing, and the Paris Review. He is the author Strange Frequencies: The Extraordinary Story of the Technological Quest for the Supernatural, Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll, and Too Much to Dream: A Psychedelic American Boyhood.

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    Praise for Strange Frequencies

    Praise for Season of the Witch:

  • "Fascinating...an absorbing read deserving an important place in rock literature."--Michal Moorcock

  • "Passionate, informed, gripping, and at times wonderfully lyrical."--Jason Heller, NPR.com

  • "A must-read."--Cheryl Eddy, io9.com

  • "This sharply written narrative illuminates the centrality of the occult imagination at the heart of rock and roll."--Library Journal (starred review)

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