Laura Katrine Skinnebach, Hans Henrik Lohfert Jørgensen and Henning Laugerud are the authors to the new anthology “Animation between Magic, Miracles and Mechanics”. This animist book is an interesting dive into investigating magic, miracles and mechanics as motors of animation and seeks to understand the living image in solidarity with medieval experience rather than dismissive alienation of it.

"Effigies did bleed, weep or lactate, either through divine intervention or through hydraulic machinery. Statues did move or speak, either as demonic oracles or as talking heads with implanted speaking tubes. (...) We just need to look and listen more carefully to comprehend these fluid realities, even when – especially when – they challenge our received worldview."

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