ABSTRACT
The final chapter concludes by looking at the common denominator of all the case studies in this book. By incorporating digital media technology to mediate the spiritual, the abstract and the invisible materially appear. Evidently, an understanding of mediality can allow us to explore and examine other areas where technology and its offerings profoundly define human experience. This chapter concludes with a performative elucidation of a conceptual term, ‘#ECCESS.’ Coded in it is the dual sense of digital technology’s mediating property to provide access to spiritual beings and does so through an excess of performance. On the one hand, we are and have always been dependent on mediums to denote the realities that we are living in and the diverse theatres we enact. On the other hand, mediums could also make spirits speak, perform and act without confirming their status as wholly spirit or corporeal. In fact, the latest forms of mediation, the digital media, suspend that status and convert spirits to plural formats that are neither physical nor spiritual. That is, this chapter argues, the carnal temptation of the medium: it can tempt the spirit to be a body and the body to be a spirit.
