Trance Media and New Media of Two Thresholds of Globalisation (1900 and today)

本研究项目探讨了两个全球化时代个人催眠媒介与新技术媒介之间的关系。我们发现，关于催眠的现代性的公开辩论大约在1900年被整合到现代媒介概念中，目前被宗教和世俗组织“本土化”。本项目的人种学部分一直在观察一种以区域为基础的做法如何转变为全球化的侨民，并将在未来调查在北非和欧洲之间讲阿拉伯语的跨国空间中处理催眠媒介和新媒体的相互竞争的现代化战略。对这一动态发展的研究将有助于通过历史比较对媒介人类学的关键概念进行修订。

This research-project investigates the relationship between personal trance-mediums and new technical media in the two eras of globalization. We find public debates about the modernity of trance-practices that are integrated around 1900 into the modern concept of the medium, and at present are "glocalized" by religious and secular organisations. The ethnographic part of the current project has been observing the transfer of a regionally anchored practice into a globalized diaspora, and will in the future investigate the competing modernizing strategies that deal with trance mediums and new media in the arab-speaking transnational space between North Africa and Europe. The investigations of this dynamic development will contribute to a revision of media anthropological key-concepts, via historical comparisons.