... consent. It can be challenging to obtain consent or ascertain agreement in the absence of straightforward communication. To address the whether and how of collaboration across difference, this article draws on ethnographic research on dowsing—a traditional method for finding underground water and other...

... Scientology, crystology, ESP, dowsing, and the laying-on of hands. Backster’s work with plants—and the air of scientific authority it aspired to—reflects a cultural moment when pseudoscientific research enjoyed a freedom of speculation and credulity that would quickly disappear in the emerging neoliberal...

... are in a form of écriture feminine, holding language and letters back from use in the progress of logos. Letters are reclaimed, however, and used as a source of power in the poem “Enchanted Twig”: “The diverted creek sounds sad so maybe i better / take our dowsing stick out to the field, for our Y...