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...This chapter examines the affectivity of inquiry in Charles S. Peirce's Illustrations of the Logic of Series published in Popular Science Monthly in 1877–1878. In this series Peirce presents a a robust synechistic individual, one who stands up to her hegemonic community whose...

...This chapter documents the development of a nineteenth-century American Spiritualist technology for communicating with the dead, first proposed by Andrew Jackson Davis in 1853. The chapter situates this seemingly fantastical technology in relation to the expanding circulation of popular science...