ABSTRACT Parallel to the history of the occult medium of telepathy, there is a media history of thought transfer, across various technologies that in turn influence the conceptual inventory of psychology and neurology, literature and psychoanalysis.
'Events occur in my mind', Spark has written, 'and I record them'. What does it mean to hear something that isn't there? Hearing inner speech or sounds, not as silent thoughts but as quasi-perceptual events in the world, confounds settled distinctions between perception, memory and imagination that structure our feeling of the real. This essay shows how her capacity for complex 'listening in'...