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  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction: Techniques of the Affect Lab
  6. 1. William James’s Planchette
  7. 2. Books of Faces
  8. 3. The Prison Dynograph
  9. 4. E-Meter Metaphysics
  10. Conclusion: The Epistemology and Aesthetics of Empathy
  11. Acknowledgments
  12. Notes
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index
  15. Figure Descriptions
  16. About the Author

INDEX

  • Abnormal (Foucault), 149–50
  • acting. See performance
  • Adorno, Theodor, 220n100
  • Advance (Chicago), 58–60
  • aesthetics, 20–25, 98, 209–10, 220n109, 226n83; of compassion, 19, 50, 56, 231n92; education, 18, 88, 231n92; experience, 16–24, 101; German, 12, 15–17, 22, 25, 28, 88, 125; judgment, 18, 20–23, 27, 56, 70, 88–89, 94, 105–6, 121; mediation of, 21, 125, 220n100; occult, 196, 200; psychological, 17, 21, 25, 80–89, 105, 114; state, 17–21, 89–90, 106, 218n73, 226n62
  • affect: as anticipatory, 133–35, 147, 151; definition of, 29–30, 205–7, 220n105; and emotion, 3–4, 13–14, 31, 36–38, 204, 207–8; and empathy, 4, 14–16, 28, 127, 147, 152–53, 204, 210, 220n105; facial expression of, 123, 163, 229n43; as hierarchical, 14–15; incoherence of, 3, 31–32; incommensurability of, 3, 28–32, 204; liberation of, 57, 63, 222n143; materiality of, 13–15, 27–33, 167, 206–7; neurocognition of, 4, 11, 13, 30–33, 163, 205–6, 220n109; as normative, 14, 153–54, 161, 229n43; ontology of, 4, 13, 31–32, 152, 161, 167, 202, 207; as preceding consciousness, 44, 52, 69, 71; and race, 14, 217n61; as symbolic, 31–38, 44, 71, 165, 220n109; technical production of, 2, 4, 11, 27–39, 44, 71, 74, 93–94, 150, 153, 165, 205–10; universality of, 3–4, 15, 31–32, 37, 92–93, 161–63, 206; visibility of, 2, 12, 27, 31, 36, 154, 163–65. See also emotion
  • affective computing, 4–7, 28
  • affect program theory, 10–11, 27, 73–75, 89, 92–94, 113, 144, 150–51, 229n58; critique of, 93; and evolution, 100; and fear, 145–47
  • affect theory, 3, 28–30, 167; antisocial turn, 14–15; critique of, 13–15, 28–29, 36–37; idealism of, 30–32, 167, 206–7; and psychology, 4, 11–13, 28–38, 43–44, 52, 57, 63, 206, 220n106
  • Agamben, Giorgio, 35
  • Age of Anxiety, The (Auden), 180–81
  • Ahmed, Sara, 14, 220n109
  • Allen, Jamie, 168
  • alterity, 10, 209
  • anatomy, 79–81, 86, 95, 122
  • Angerer, Marie-Louise, 243n10
  • anticipation, 127–30, 133–47, 151–53, 156–58, 162–63, 170
  • anti-psychiatry, 129, 147–49, 157, 174, 185, 207, 232n3
  • anxiety, 34, 136, 162, 179–82
  • appearance. See exteriority
  • archive, 2, 76–78, 86, 89–92, 109
  • Aristotle, 20, 96, 207
  • Aserinsky, Eugene, 163
  • Astounding Science Fiction, 173
  • Atlantic Monthly, 70
  • Auden, W. H., 181–85, 240n73; The Age of Anxiety, 180–81
  • audience, 13, 17–20, 116–17, 125
  • auditing (Dianetics and Scientology), 173, 178, 182, 184, 191–200, 238n32
  • Ausdruck der Gemütsbewegungen des Menschen, Der (Rudolph), 106–8
  • automatic writing, 26, 44–47, 54–55, 59–60, 67, 70, 208, 227n91
  • automatism, 49, 67–71
  • Bachelard, Gaston, 12, 15, 133, 207, 217n50
  • Barad, Karen, 207
  • Baron-Cohen, Simon, 157, 234n39
  • Barthes, Roland: Camera Lucida, 77
  • basic emotions paradigm. See affect program theory
  • Bataille, Georges, 240n73
  • Bateson, Gregory, 121, 148, 229n58
  • Bazin, André, 87–88
  • beauty, 7, 20, 98
  • Bell, Charles, 98, 100–101
  • Benjamin, Walter, 89–91, 95, 114; “Doctrine of the Similar,” 90; “Little History of Photography,” 89–90
  • Berger, Hans, 135
  • Bergson, Henri, 174, 238n37
  • Berlant, Lauren, 14, 220n109
  • Bernard, Claude, 85
  • Bersani, Leo, 14
  • Birdwhistell, Ray, 121, 232n106
  • Blair, James: The Psychopath, 157, 236n101
  • Blair, Karina: The Psychopath, 157, 236n101
  • Blavatsky, H. P., 195
  • bombshell trauma. See shell shock
  • Bonaparte, Marie, 114
  • Book of E-Meter Drills, The (Hubbard), 196, 200
  • Boring, Edwin, 94, 116, 219n96; “A Model for the Demonstration of Facial Expression,” 103–6, 230n77
  • Breithaupt, Fritz, 218n79, 220n105, 244n16
  • Brennan, Teresa, 208
  • Breton, André: “First Manifesto of Surrealism,” 120
  • “Bridge to Total Freedom, The” (Scientology), 238n33
  • Brinkema, Eugenie, 30, 206, 243n10
  • British Columbia Penitentiary, 127, 130, 138–40
  • Brown University, 94, 121
  • Bühler, Karl, 24–25, 140
  • Bunn, Geoffrey, 137
  • Burden Neurological Institute, 127, 130, 134, 137
  • Californian Ideology, 201
  • Cambridge University, 53
  • Camera Lucida (Barthes), 77
  • cancer, 186, 241n101
  • Canguilhem, Georges, 80, 203–4, 217n50, 234n49, 236n92, 236n97
  • capitalism, 4, 155, 201; carceral, 161; emotional, 5, 28, 161–63, 201; immaterial, 154
  • Carmichael, Stokely. See Ture, Kwame
  • Carnegie, Dale, 179–82, 239n63; How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, 179–80, 239n66; How to Win Friends and Influence People, 179
  • causality, 133, 143–45, 150, 163
  • Cendrars, Blaise: Moravagine, 205
  • Charcot, Jean-Martin, 74–78, 85–96, 113, 174, 227n5, 227n10, 228n16, 228n31, 228n33
  • Chen, Mel Y., 14
  • chiropractic medicine, 186–87
  • Christie, Samuel Hunter, 169
  • Citizens Commission on Human Rights, 149, 185
  • Clark University, 175
  • clear (Dianetics and Scientology), 173, 178, 191–96, 238n33, 240n72
  • Cleckley, Hervey, 156–59, 236n88; The Mask of Sanity, 156
  • colonization, 14, 15, 226n75
  • Columbia University, 73, 92–94, 109, 113, 223n10
  • communication, 17–18, 39, 47, 106, 135, 201; research, 231n82
  • compassion, 19, 29, 50–51, 56, 64–65, 68, 82, 88, 91, 96, 209
  • Congress on the Dialectics of Liberation, 148–49
  • Connolly, William, 220n109
  • consciousness, 4, 27, 30, 48–49, 51–63, 67–71, 135, 150, 178, 206, 220n106; in spiritualism, 43–44, 59–60
  • contingent negative variation (CNV), 127, 135–38, 163, 232n2
  • Cooper, David, 129, 147–49, 156, 234n57
  • Cornell University, 21, 73, 223n10
  • critique, 29, 220n106, 220n109; anti-psychiatry, 128, 148; antisocial, 14–15; Darwin’s, of facial expression, 100–101; epistemological, 12, 15, 35
  • Crowley, Aleister, 195–96, 200, 241n99
  • culture, 3–4, 31–33, 37–39, 58, 202, 206, 226n62; mass, 154, 200; modern, 204; popular, 162; Western, 210
  • Darwin, Charles, 79–80, 89, 93–95, 100–106; The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, 95, 98–100, 106, 230n68
  • Daston, Lorraine, 9
  • Davis, Andrew Jackson, 60, 226n67
  • deception, 1, 74–76, 86–87, 113
  • decision, neurological, 151–52
  • Delaporte, François, 35, 80, 94, 101, 217n50
  • Deleuze, Gilles, 3, 222n143
  • Derrida, Jacques, 38
  • Descartes, René, 29–30, 37, 51, 57, 228n19
  • Diamond, Hugh W., 227n8
  • Dianetics, 165–68, 173–74, 182, 191–92, 241n101; as materialist, 174, 191; and psychoanalysis, 171–73, 178–80, 192–95, 238n32, 240n70; and Scientology, 183–85, 188–89, 195, 240n91
  • Dianetics (Hubbard), 173–84, 189–94, 238n30, 241n101
  • Didi-Huberman, Georges, 74, 85, 228n16, 228n33
  • disaffection, 14, 152–54
  • Discipline and Punish (Foucault), 148, 235n61
  • “Doctrine of the Similar” (Benjamin), 90
  • drawing, 7–9, 55, 87, 95–98, 102–9
  • drugs, 55–56, 67, 149, 174, 180, 185
  • dualism, 50, 53, 61, 149, 206–7; Cartesian, 29, 37, 57; Kantian, 30, 57, 61–62
  • Duchenne de Boulogne, Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand, 74–102, 105, 113, 120–23, 142, 150, 227n8; Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, 75, 81–87, 98, 100, 113
  • Dynograph, 2, 27, 127–41, 161, 168–70, 197–99, 207–8, 233n27, 233n28; and EEG, 130–33; and psychopathy, 136–53, 156–57; and sleep studies, 163
  • Ebbinghaus, Hermann, 144
  • Eburne, Jonathan, 168–69
  • Edelman, Lee, 14
  • efficiency, 176, 203–4
  • Einfühlung, 16–17, 20–25, 117, 201, 218n66, 218n80, 219n97. See also empathy
  • Einstein, Albert, 186
  • Ekman, Paul, 10–11, 27, 77, 93–94, 121–25, 145–46, 154, 229n55, 229n58; and Darwin, 230n68; Emotions Revealed, 123–24; self- citations, 229n54. See also Facial Action Coding System (FACS)
  • electrical shock, 11, 34, 79–84, 92, 140–46, 150–52; therapy (electroshock), 130–32, 174, 180
  • electrodermal response, 133, 137, 140–44, 152, 168–71, 188–89, 196, 199–200, 207
  • electroencephalograph (EEG), 27, 127, 130–41, 156, 192, 206, 233n21; wearables, 133, 233n18
  • electromyography, facial, 93, 229n52
  • electropsychometer. See E-Meter
  • Emerson, Lori, 3, 216n49
  • E-Meter, 2–4, 28, 165, 172, 184–89; Hubbard Electrometer, 241n111; interpretation of, 170–71, 189–93, 197–99; Mathison Electropsychometer, 189–92, 241n111; as metaphysical, 192–93, 200–202, 207–8; and polygraph, 168–70, 197–99; use, 196–200; and Wheatstone bridge, 169
  • E-Meter Essentials (Hubbard), 197
  • emotion: and capitalism, 5, 10, 28, 148, 154–55, 161–63, 201; in Dianetics and Scientology, 189–93; as discrete, 73–79, 93–96, 101–3, 109, 113–14, 229n58, 231n101; expression of, 10, 15–19, 80, 96–101, 106, 122–25, 146; and feeling, 4, 37, 215n8; as hierarchical, 14; identification of, 5–6, 10–11, 88, 105, 114–17, 216n39; incommensurability of, 28; instrumental production of, 13, 19–21, 25–27, 117, 188, 202, 205–6, 217n52, 229n52; James-Lange theory, 29, 43, 50–68, 71, 142, 224n36; and personality testing, 176; and psychopathy, 130, 137–38, 143–58, 163; as relational, 127–28, 143–45, 161–62, 208–9; simulation of, 19–20, 27, 88, 96, 116, 122, 159; as universal, 11, 17–18, 33, 36, 89, 102, 106, 113, 117, 120–21, 124–25. See also affect; affect program theory; empathy
  • Emotions Revealed (Ekman), 123–24
  • empathy, 4, 16, 21–27, 33, 117, 162, 204, 208, 218n79, 218n80, 220n105; absence of, 143, 147–54, 157, 160–61, 234n39, 235n67; crisis of, 208; and “himpathy,” 218n79; incoherence of, 161–62; measurement of, 23–26, 88, 127, 163; and mediation, 17, 88, 96, 125, 209–10; motor, 22–25, 117, 219n90; and relation, 16, 23, 26–27, 33, 90, 127–28, 138, 152–53; and sympathy, 16, 22–24, 65, 96. See also Einfühlung
  • empirical, the, 1–2, 10–12, 32–35, 38, 51, 57, 62, 73, 80, 87–90, 102, 135, 172, 192, 204–7, 224n28, 224n36
  • empiricism, 11, 34, 41–44, 48, 50, 71, 90–94, 109, 113, 116; radical, 23, 41–46, 51–53, 57, 62, 223n20
  • engram (Dianetics), 173–74, 178, 184, 191
  • Enlightenment, 14–18, 182, 210
  • Epicurus, 29
  • epilepsy, 54, 132, 136
  • epistemological critique. See critique: epistemological
  • esotericism, 166, 182–83, 188, 194–95, 200
  • Estelle v. Smith, 159–60
  • evil, 49, 65, 151, 154, 157, 161, 204
  • evolution, 10, 80, 92, 95, 100–105
  • experience, pure (James), 51–52, 57, 68–69
  • Experimental Psychology (Woodworth and Schlosberg), 93–95, 101–2, 109, 113, 121, 144, 229n56
  • experiments, 3, 92, 165–67, 207–8, 216n49, 233n18; of Bühler, 24–25; of Duchenne de Boulogne, 83–87; forced choice, 93–95; of Hare, 142–46, 159; of James, 41–45, 53–56, 61–62, 71, 224n38, 227n89; judgment of facial expression, 92–95, 101–6, 109, 114–16, 120–21, 229n52, 229n54, 230n77, 232n104; psychophysics, 17, 21, 44; of Stein, 69–71; of Walter, 136–37
  • Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, The (Darwin), 95, 98–100, 106, 230n68
  • exteriority, 3, 7, 14, 17–21, 123–25
  • face: anatomy of, 80; books of, 73–77, 82, 86–87, 92, 95, 103–9, 124–25, 207; fragmentation of, 79, 103–5, 122; and interiority, 7, 10, 91, 209; measurement of, 5–7, 11, 80, 113, 130, 230n77; and performed expression, 19, 27, 76, 83–88, 105, 122–24, 145, 163; and physiognomy, 8–9, 90–91, 96–97, 214n24; and truth, 7–10, 96, 120, 146, 151; and universality, 114, 117, 120–25
  • Facebook, 5–6, 9–10
  • Facial Action Coding System (FACS), 10–11, 122–23, 216n39
  • Falret, Jules, 74
  • Faust (Goethe), 115
  • fear, 7, 67, 152; as affect program, 10, 92, 109; as anticipatory, 130, 136, 142–47, 151–53; as a “coarse” emotion, 52
  • Fechner, Gustav, 17, 44, 61, 223n11
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 186
  • Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, 185–87
  • Feelings and Emotions (Feleky), 112, 115–16
  • Feldman Barrett, Lisa, 93, 229n52
  • Feleky, Antoinette M., 109–21, 124, 231n92; Feelings and Emotions, 112, 115–16
  • Ferraris, Maurizio, 221n113
  • Ferreira da Silva, Denise, 14
  • Feyerabend, Paul, 36, 216n49
  • “First Manifesto of Surrealism” (Breton), 120
  • Fishbough, William, 60, 226n67
  • Fontana, Lucio, 219n90
  • Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 185–88
  • Foucault, Michel, 1, 35, 74–76, 80, 91, 217n50, 234n57; Abnormal, 149–50; Discipline and Punish, 148, 235n61; Histoire de la Folie, 129, 232n4
  • Freedberg, David, 219n90
  • Fretwell, Erica, 14, 17–18, 220n99, 223n11
  • Freud, Sigmund, 114, 165, 173, 181, 185–86, 234n57, 240n73; and Charcot, 227n5; Clark University lectures, 175; home movies of, 117–19; influence on Hubbard, 177–83, 191–92, 195, 240n72; materialism of, 174. See also psychoanalysis; unconscious: Freudian
  • Fridlund, Alan, 93, 229n52, 230n70
  • Friesen, Wallace. See Ekman, Paul
  • Frois-Wittmann, Jean, 117–23, 231n101, 232n104
  • Galison, Peter, 9
  • Gallese, Vittorio, 219n90
  • Geimer, Peter, 87
  • gender, 14–16, 26, 73, 76, 83, 86, 113, 119–20, 197, 218n79
  • Gesamtkunstwerk, 218n66, 220n100
  • Gibbens, Alice, 45
  • Ginsberg, Allen, 148
  • Goffman, Erving, 129
  • Grigson, James, 159–60, 236n100
  • Grossberg, Lawrence, 220n109
  • Guattari, Félix, 129, 222n143, 234n57
  • Guinness, Katherine, 120
  • Gunn, Joshua, 194–96
  • habit, 45, 58, 61–69, 102–3, 142, 150–51
  • Hacking, Ian, 150
  • Hall, G. Stanley, 44
  • Hamburgische Dramaturgie (Lessing), 18, 88, 120, 201
  • Han, Byung-Chul, 209
  • Hansen, Mark B. N., 220n109, 243n10
  • Hare, Robert, 127–29, 136–61; Psychopathy, 140, 158; Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R), 139–40, 158–61, 236n101, 243n165; Snakes in Suits, 155
  • Harvard University, 2, 26, 44–45, 69, 176, 223n10
  • Heidegger, Martin, 35
  • Herder, Johann Gottfried, 20–21, 209
  • Hermitage House, 175
  • Hinman, E. L., 218n80
  • Histoire de la Folie (Foucault), 129, 232n4
  • Hodgson, Richard, 53, 70
  • How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (Carnegie), 179–80, 239n66
  • Hubbard, L. Ron, 2–3, 165–74, 237n11, 240n90; and anti-psychiatry, 149, 166, 174, 185; The Book of E-Meter Drills, 196, 200; Dianetics, 173–84, 189–94, 238n30, 241n101; E-Meter Essentials, 197; Introducing the E-Meter, 197, 241n111; jargon of, 193–94; and military, 177–79; and occult, 183, 195–96, 240n85; Science of Survival, 184, 191–92, 240n72, 242n120; Scientology, 169, 184, 192–93; and self-help, 180–82; transformation of Dianetics into Scientology, 184–88, 191–93, 240n91. See also Dianetics; E-Meter; Freud, Sigmund: influence on Hubbard; Scientology
  • hypnotism, 55–57, 62–63, 67, 74, 180, 225n48
  • hysteria, 54–56, 69, 74, 86–87, 129, 175, 228n31
  • idealism, 30, 46, 62, 132, 188, 201–2, 207
  • identification, 2, 5, 16, 75, 95, 114, 208–9, 210, 218n79
  • Illouz, Eva, 181, 201
  • immaterial labor, 161
  • “In a Psychological Laboratory” (Stein), 25–26, 34
  • incarceration, 13, 127–29, 147–54, 158, 161–62, 235n61
  • incommensurability, 1, 3, 13, 28, 204
  • indexicality, 47, 73–77, 87–88, 219n90, 228n12
  • inscription, 2, 10–11, 26–39, 43, 47, 54, 71, 76, 103, 127–45, 151, 155, 161–69, 189, 197, 200–202, 207, 217n52, 221n113. See also media
  • instinct, 45, 52, 58, 63–66, 90, 151
  • instruments, 3, 7–16, 24–35, 44, 133, 138, 165–67, 183, 193, 201–10, 230n77
  • interiority, 1–3, 8–14, 28, 125, 204, 209; measurement of, 4, 7–9, 26–27, 96, 162–63, 199–202; as problem, 16–21, 31, 101–2, 161; and psychopathy, 153–54
  • intention, 7, 29–31, 47–48, 53, 59–62, 122, 146, 150, 220n106
  • intimacy, instrumental, 133, 138
  • Introducing the E-Meter (Hubbard), 197, 241n111
  • Izard, Carroll, 11, 93
  • James, William, 2, 26–27, 43, 207; and affect theory, 29–30, 63, 220n109; and experimental psychology, 44–45, 69–70, 223n11; feelings of relation, 23; “hidden selves,” 55–57, 70–71; influence of, 106, 135–36, 142, 150–51, 188, 232n2; personal crisis of, 49–50, 224n36; pragmatism, 43, 46, 68–69; Principles of Psychology, 27, 44–46, 53, 57–59; pure experience, 51–52, 57, 68–69; radical empiricism, 23, 41–43, 46, 57, 62, 223n20; Schopenhauer’s influence on, 49–53, 57, 62–67, 224n36; and spiritualism, 30, 41, 45–46, 50, 53–61, 69–70, 75, 224n38, 225n48; unclassified residuum, 45–46, 69, 88; Varieties of Religious Experience, 49–50; Will to Believe, 50. See also emotion: James-Lange theory; experiments: of James
  • Jameson, Fredric, 220n109
  • Janet, Pierre, 54–55, 73–74, 77, 117
  • judgment, 7–9, 17–23, 27, 56, 76, 87–95, 105–6, 114, 121, 125, 145–47, 152, 158–59, 163, 204
  • Jung, Carl, 174, 181–82, 241n115
  • Kant, Immanuel, 18, 20, 30, 195, 218n73, 224n38; and Schopenhauer, 51, 57, 61–62, 220n105, 220n107. See also dualism: Kantian
  • Kesey, Ken, 129
  • kinaesthetic, 22–24
  • Kittler, Friedrich, 5, 36, 165
  • kymograph, 144
  • Lacan, Jacques, 222n143, 240n73
  • Laing, R. D., 129, 148, 234n57
  • Lange, Carl, 52. See also emotion: James-Lange theory
  • Laocoön (Lessing), 98, 229n41
  • Laocoön group (sculpture), 100, 229n41
  • Latour, Bruno, 69
  • Lavater, Johann Kaspar, 7–10, 19, 96–97, 100–103, 218n73
  • law, 137, 143, 149–50, 159, 170, 236n97
  • law enforcement, 73, 124, 138, 158, 161, 168–69, 176, 210
  • Le Brun, Charles, 80–82, 98
  • Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 18–21, 116–17, 124, 209, 218n73; Hamburgische Dramaturgie, 18, 88, 120, 201; Laocoön, 98, 229n41
  • Levinas, Emmanuel, 10, 12, 209
  • Leys, Ruth, 93, 122, 220n106, 221n116, 229n52
  • liberalism, 14, 17–18, 201, 231n92, 235n61
  • libertarianism, 148–49, 155, 201
  • lie detector. See polygraph
  • Lightfood, Marjorie, 121, 232n104
  • Linder, Robert, 155–56
  • Lipps, Theodor, 17–18, 21–22, 88, 106, 209
  • Littlefield, Melissa, 133–35
  • “Little History of Photography” (Benjamin), 89–90
  • Lucretius, 29, 207, 223n11
  • madness, 91, 149
  • Malabou, Catherine, 151–52
  • Manne, Kate, 218n79
  • Manning, Erin, 220n109, 222n142, 222n143, 225n60
  • Marcuse, Herbert, 148, 240n73
  • Mask of Sanity, The (Cleckley), 156
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 53
  • Massumi, Brian, 3, 14, 29, 220n109
  • materiality, 11, 27–35, 39, 96, 204–5, 220n109; anti-materialism (Fechner), 223n11; of cognition, 11, 33, 37–38, 46, 57, 132–33, 145–49, 239n42; of media, 2–4, 31, 167, 206–7, 220n101; medical, 223n20; and the occult, 167–71, 188, 191, 200–201; of theories, 12, 15, 44, 133, 207–8. See also Dianetics: as materialist
  • Mathison, Volney G., 2–3, 188–92, 241n111, 241n115
  • Mead, Margaret, 121, 229n58
  • measurement. See media: and measurement
  • Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine (Duchenne), 75, 81–87, 98, 100, 113
  • mechanical objectivity. See objectivity, mechanical
  • media: and empathy, 208–10; and epistemology, 9–10, 15; erasure of, 2–4, 27, 207; as first philosophy, 10, 39; as material, 11, 50, 202, 206, 217n52, 220n101; and measurement, 3, 5–7, 10–12, 15, 24–25, 169, 221n113; and mediation, 1, 12, 53, 71, 165, 208–10
  • media archaeology, 1, 35
  • mediumship, 41, 45, 53, 71
  • memory, 23, 55, 117, 124, 144; Freudian, 178; vitalist, 174
  • memory drum, 144
  • mental illness, 129, 133, 149, 174, 179; and anti-psychiatry, 147; materialist explanation of, 239n42
  • Merson, Luc-Olivier, 117
  • metaphysics, 10, 30–31, 43–44, 204; and affect, 2, 30–32, 38–39, 167, 206–7; and alterity, 10, 12, 209; of Dianetics and Scientology, 169, 173, 183, 188, 199–200, 240n85; exclusion of, 102, 167, 210; materialist, 221n114; and photography, 88; positivist, 62; of presence, 36, 38; Schopenhauer, 50, 58; of the soul, 163; spiritualist, 12, 45–46, 51, 56–58, 88, 128, 135; and technological instruments, 9, 12, 28, 165, 199–200, 205
  • military, U.S., 175–80
  • mimesis, 20–22, 89–91, 95–96, 116, 120, 235n68
  • mimetic faculty (Benjamin), 90–91, 95, 114
  • Mimik und Physiognomik (Piderit), 98–99, 103
  • Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), 140
  • misery, 5, 26, 29, 49–53, 65
  • misogyny, 113, 218n79, 220n105, 226n75
  • Mitchell, Derek: The Psychopath, 157, 236n101
  • morality, 7, 18–19, 29, 50, 68, 152–54, 162, 182, 208, 224n38
  • Moravagine (Cendrars), 205
  • Morris, Errol, 159; The Thin Blue Line, 236n100; A Wilderness of Error, 236n100
  • Mueller, Georg Elias, 144
  • Münsterberg, Hugo, 26, 69–71, 176, 179, 223n7, 223n10, 236n97
  • muscles, 92; facial, 10, 79–83, 98, 102, 119–23; the mind’s, 22
  • mysticism, 9, 41, 46, 61, 67–68, 71–75, 90, 171, 182–83, 186, 204
  • narrative, 34, 151, 155
  • Nātyashāstra, 228n19
  • neurological decision. See decision, neurological
  • neurology, 3–4, 10–11, 26, 30–33, 37–38, 46, 56, 63, 74, 80, 92, 122–28, 149, 153, 160, 174, 203–6; of psychopathy, 154, 157–63, 236n101
  • neuron, 92, 130, 174; mirror, 22; pyramidal, 132, 135
  • neuroplasticity, 37, 58, 63–69, 151
  • neuropsychology and neuropsychiatry, 22, 30, 33, 136, 149, 152, 157, 162, 176, 224n38
  • neurosis, 129, 147, 156, 173, 176, 180, 191
  • Ngai, Sianne, 14, 220n109, 243n10
  • Nhâ´ t Ha. nh, Thích, 148
  • Nietzsche, Friedrich, 24
  • “Normal Motor Automatism” (Solomons and Stein), 69–70, 227n89
  • Northwestern University, 106, 176
  • objectivity, mechanical, 9, 12, 24–26, 161, 165, 172, 204
  • occult, the, 12, 45–46, 53, 61, 74–77, 87–95, 123, 165–67, 171–72, 182, 188, 195, 200, 208, 238n33
  • occultic, the, 193–96, 206
  • Offner, Franklin F., 130. See also Dynograph
  • optic and haptic vision, 22–23
  • Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO), 195–96, 200
  • orgone (Reich), 186–87, 191
  • Ouiji board. See planchette
  • Oury, Jean, 129
  • pain, 2, 29, 34, 65–67, 124, 142–43, 186, 218n80; memory of, 174; visualization of, 77–78, 83–86, 207
  • Palmer, Daniel David, 186, 241n107
  • Panksepp, Jaak, 11, 229n55
  • Parrika, Jussi, 3, 216n49
  • Parsons, Jack, 195
  • passions, the, 19, 79–80, 95–96, 123, 228n19. See also emotion: expression of
  • Pasteur, Louis, 195
  • Patton, William Weston, 58–61
  • People of the 20th Century (Sander), 89
  • performance, 18–20, 74–78, 86–88, 92, 95, 102, 105–6, 113, 116–25, 155, 159, 163
  • personality, 156; disorders, 133, 147, 152–58, 162, 229n43, 234n39, 235n67, 235n68; secondary, 70; testing, 176, 239n51
  • personhood, 154
  • pessimism, 29, 43, 49–50
  • photography, 208; and Darwin, 101; and death, 227n10; and Duchenne, 79–86, 92, 98; of facial expression, 5, 10–11, 73, 89, 93–96, 109, 113, 145; of Frois-Wittmann, 117–21; and indexicality, 76–77, 87, 228n12; and the occult, 75–76, 88–92, 95, 102, 123; psychiatric, 77–78, 85–86, 92, 227n8; serial, 2, 27, 73–77, 86, 102, 106, 151, 207; and universality, 114, 122–24
  • physiognomy, 7–10, 19, 80, 90, 95–103, 114
  • Piderit, Theodor, 89, 98–106, 120, 230n68, 230n70; Mimik und Physiognomik, 98–99, 103
  • planchette, 27, 41–63, 69–71, 150, 207–8, 225n48
  • Planchette (Sargent), 45–47, 58, 225n48
  • plasticity. See neuroplasticity
  • Plato, 38, 96, 194–95, 207
  • police. See law enforcement
  • Pollock, Jackson, 219n90
  • polygraph, 137–43, 146, 233n28; and E-Meter, 168–70, 197–99
  • Pomeroy, Jesse, 64–66, 151
  • pragmatism, 43–46, 51, 68–69
  • Princeton University, 73, 117
  • Principles of Psychology (James), 27, 44, 46, 53, 59
  • prison, 1–2, 73, 127–28, 136–51, 158–59, 163, 207, 235n61; language as, 38
  • pseudoscience, 1, 7–9, 12, 33, 44, 61, 135, 172, 187
  • psychiatry, 28, 74, 127–29, 147–49, 156–60, 174–75, 180, 185, 203
  • psychoanalysis, 36, 90, 117, 165–66, 171–83, 188, 192–95, 203, 207, 227n5, 238n32, 240n73
  • psychology: and aesthetics, 17, 21–25, 121; and affect theory, 11–13, 30, 33, 37, 206, 215n8, 220n106; applied, 106, 175–76, 179; carceral function of, 129, 150, 158–61, 236n97; critique of, 149, 166, 185; and digital media, 10; discontinuity of, 13; and efficiency, 203; experimental, 17–18, 27–28, 44, 54, 73, 93–94, 165, 171, 175–76, 188; history of, 2–3, 15–16, 21, 32, 35–36, 44, 77; introspective, 43, 223n7; materialist turn, 174; normative dimensions, 14–15, 154, 157, 167, 200; and parapsychology, 74–75; and pseudoscience, 12–13, 51, 71, 77, 88, 135, 165, 172, 222n1; as a science, 25, 36, 44–46, 70–71, 75–76, 128, 204; and self-help, 171, 179; technological foundations of, 4, 11–12, 15, 189, 201–8, 217n52
  • Psychology of Public Speaking, The (Scott), 106, 176, 179
  • psychopath, 127–29, 132–33, 138–63, 176, 232n3, 236n101; and other personality disorders, 229n43, 234n39, 235n67, 235n68
  • Psychopath, The (Blair, Mitchell, and Blair), 157, 236n101
  • Psychopathy Checklist-Revised, 139–40, 158–61, 236n101, 243n165. See also Hare, Robert
  • Psychopathy: Theory and Research (Hare), 140, 158
  • psychophysics, 4, 14–17, 21, 36, 44, 61, 94, 105, 125, 218n80, 220n99
  • psychosis, 180
  • pyramidal neurons. See neuron: pyramidal
  • Quinn, Michael, 139–45, 158
  • race, 7–9, 13–16, 26, 148, 217n61, 220n99, 226n75, 235n61
  • Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep, 163
  • Reich, Wilhelm, 174, 185–88, 191, 240n73, 241n99, 241n105
  • religion, 9, 13, 30, 45–46, 49–50, 58, 61, 68, 80, 204, 207; and chiropractic medicine, 187, 241n107; new age, 195, 166, 171; and psychoanalysis, 182; and reason, 183, 206. See also esotericism; Scientology
  • remorse, 150–51, 156–62
  • repression, 45, 48–49, 56–57, 61, 68, 71, 148, 184–86
  • Riegl, Aloïs, 22
  • Romanticism, German, 15–16, 20–21, 226n62
  • Roosevelt, Franklin D., 185
  • Ruckmick, Christian A., 109–10, 113, 116–17
  • Rudolph, Heinrich, 98, 113, 119; Der Ausdruck der Gemütsbewegungen des Menschen, 106–9
  • Russell, James A., 93, 229n52
  • Salpêtrière, 54–55, 73–76, 83–86, 113, 124, 129, 174, 227n5, 228n31
  • Sampson, Tony, 243n10
  • Sander, August, 89–92, 114; People of the 20th Century, 89
  • Sargent, Epes, 46–48, 224n28; Planchette, 45–47, 58, 225n48
  • Satanism, 58
  • Saussure, Ferdinand de, 102
  • Scarry, Elaine, 2
  • Schiller, Friedrich, 18, 90, 116, 209, 218n73, 226n62
  • schizophrenia, 129, 147, 180
  • Schlosberg, Harold, 94–96, 109, 120–22; Experimental Psychology, 93–95, 101–2, 109, 113, 121, 144, 229n56
  • Schneemann, Carolee, 148
  • Schopenhauer, Arthur, 29–30, 43–45, 49–67, 113, 120, 128, 136, 195, 220n105, 220n107, 224n36, 226n75
  • Schuller, Kyla, 14–18, 226n75
  • Schumann, Friedrich, 144
  • Science of Survival (Hubbard), 184, 191–92, 240n72, 242n120
  • scientism, 206
  • Scientology, 2, 28, 165–72, 178, 183–89, 193–200, 237n10, 237n11. See also Citizens Commission on Human Rights; Dianetics
  • Scientology (Hubbard), 169, 184, 192–93
  • Scott, Walter Dill, 231n82; The Psychology of Public Speaking, 106, 176, 179
  • Security Checking (Scientology), 199
  • Sedgwick, Eve Kosofksy, 3, 11, 14–15, 29, 216n42, 220n109
  • seizures, 132
  • self-help, 165–66, 171, 175, 179–82, 195, 239n63
  • Seltzer, Mark, 154–55
  • sensation, 14–18, 21–24, 29, 54–57, 62–63, 83, 106, 167, 174, 192, 204, 207
  • sentiment, 13–16, 19–20, 68, 102, 209, 220n109, 226n75
  • seriality, photographic, 2, 73–77, 86, 102, 119, 207, 228n33
  • serial killers, 66, 154–55
  • shades. See physiognomy
  • Shapin, Steven, 34
  • Shaviro, Steven, 220n109, 243n10
  • shell shock, 175–76, 180–81
  • Shirley, Bettye, 124
  • Sidgwick, Henry, 53
  • Skinner, B. F., 70–71, 227n91
  • sleep, 53–55, 59–60, 132, 135, 163
  • Sloterdijk, Peter, 183
  • Smith, Ernest Benjamin, 160
  • Smith, William L., 53–54, 70
  • Snakes in Suits (Babiak and Hare), 155
  • Societies for Psychical Research, 41, 44, 222n1
  • sociopath, 154, 160; difference from psychopath, 158. See also psychopath
  • Solomons, Leon M.: “Normal Motor Automatism,” 69–70, 227n89
  • somnambulism, 55, 60
  • spectatorship, 19–21, 77, 88, 96, 201
  • Spencer, Herbert, 106
  • Spinoza, 29–30, 63, 224n36
  • spiritualism, 9, 12–13, 41–53, 59–61, 70–75, 94, 135, 172, 204, 223n7, 224n26
  • Stein, Gertrude, 69, 77, 120, 224n38, 227n91; “In a Psychological Laboratory” (“Radcliffe Manuscripts”), 25–26, 34; “Normal Motor Automatism,” 69–70, 227n89; Tender Buttons, 70–71
  • Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 226n66
  • Strong Programme, 30–31
  • Supreme Court, U.S., 159–60
  • surrealism, 117, 120
  • Sweezy, Paul, 148
  • sympathie symbolique, 219n97
  • sympathy, 13, 16–24, 64–65, 88–91, 101, 114, 209, 226n75, 231n92
  • Szasz, Thomas, 129, 147–49, 174, 185, 234n57, 239n42
  • Tagg, John, 73
  • Taussig, Michael, 10
  • Technique 88. See Scientology
  • temporality, 152, 158, 162; cognition of, 133–37; measurement of, 127, 136, 163, 169–70, 208, 232n2; and sequence, 130, 145, 150–55, 207
  • Tender Buttons (Stein), 70–71
  • theater. See performance
  • thetan, 168–69, 184, 188, 192–99
  • Thin Blue Line, The (Morris), 236n100
  • Thompson, Joseph C. “Snake,” 177
  • Titchener, Edward, 21–31, 37, 44, 88–89, 94, 103–6, 116–17, 135, 175, 218n80, 223n10, 229n58, 230n77
  • Tomkins, Silvan, 3, 11, 93–94, 123, 154, 220n106, 229n55, 229n58
  • tone (Dianetics and Scientology), 189–92, 196–98, 242n120
  • Tournachon, Adrien, 79–85, 100
  • Towns, Armond, 61
  • trauma, 150, 155, 170–85, 188–92, 200, 204
  • Ture, Kwame (Stokely Carmichael), 148
  • unconscious, 57–63, 173; Freudian, 173, 178, 191–92; optical, 89–91, 95, 102, 123; reactive mind (Dianetics), 178. See also repression
  • universities. See names of specific universities
  • University of Chicago, 130, 163
  • University of Iowa, 109
  • Varieties of Religious Experience (James), 49–50
  • Vattimo, Gianni, 31
  • veridiction, 35–36, 76, 188–89
  • Vischer, Robert, 20–22, 209, 218n78
  • vitalism, 49, 174, 186, 207, 238n37
  • Wagner, Richard, 218n66, 220n100
  • Walter, W. Grey, 127–28, 135–40, 156, 189, 232n2, 233n21, 233n27
  • Weigel, Sigrid, 92
  • Wells, Samuel R., 60, 226n66
  • Wershler, Darren, 3, 216n49
  • Westbrook, Donald, 184–85, 188, 237n10, 237n11, 238n32, 240n85
  • Wheatstone, Charles, 169
  • Wheatstone bridge, 169
  • Wilderness of Error, A (Morris), 236n100
  • will, 29–30, 43–45, 49–61, 65–69, 79, 206–7, 220n105, 220n107
  • Will to Believe (James), 50
  • Winsor, Anna, 55
  • Wölfflin, Heinrich, 22
  • Woodworth, Robert Sessions, 96, 105, 117, 121, 175, 230n77, 231n101; Experimental Psychology, 93–95, 101–2, 109, 113, 121, 144; personality tests, 176, 239n51
  • Woodworth scale of emotion, 109, 113, 116, 121–22, 229n54, 231n101
  • World War I, 117, 175–77
  • World War II, 130, 175–83
  • Wright, Lawrence, 237n11
  • writing. See automatic writing; inscription
  • Wunderblock (“Mystic Writing-Pad”), 178
  • Wundt, Wilhelm, 17, 21, 44, 61, 106, 175, 224n28, 224n38
  • Yao, Xine, 14, 16, 226n75
  • Yates, Frances, 182–83

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Portions of the Introduction and chapter 2 were originally published in a different form in “Books of Faces: Cultural Techniques of Basic Emotions,” NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies 8, no. 1 (2019): 125–50; the original article was published under a CC-BY-4.0 Creative Commons license.

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