For the last year or so I've been co-organizing a conference entitled LOOKING THROUGH THE OCCULT: INSTRUMENTATION, ESOTERICISM, AND EPISTEMOLOGY IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, a conference that ties together some themes from media archaeology, theology, and science studies. We've got a stellar lineup of scholars from Portugal, the Netherlands, Germany, the USA, Canada and farther afield flying in for the event which will be in a week and a half here in Berlin. This conference is sponsored by the Social Innovation through Nonhegemonic Knowledge Production network, a transnational research initiative bringing together scholars in religious studies, media studies, anthropology, the history of knowledge, and other disciplines.