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TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information

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Steve Wojtas

16 Hours 33 Minutes

North Atlantic Books

July 2018

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TechGnosis is a cult classic of media studies that straddles the line between academic discourse and popular culture; it appeals to both those secular and spiritual, to fans of cyberpunk and hacker literature and culture as much as new-thought adherents and spiritual seekers

How does our fascination with technology intersect with the religious imagination? In TechGnosis—a cult classic now updated and reissued with a new afterword—Erik Davis argues that while the realms of the digital and the spiritual may seem worlds apart, esoteric and religious impulses have in fact always permeated (and sometimes inspired) technological communication.

Davis uncovers startling connections between such seemingly disparate topics as electricity and alchemy; online roleplaying games and religious and occult practices; virtual reality and gnostic mythology; programming languages and Kabbalah. The final chapters address the apocalyptic dreams that haunt technology, providing vital historical context as well as new ways to think about a future defined by the mutant intermingling of mind and machine, nightmare and fantasy.

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  • Martin Bigger

    loved every chapter, brilliant intersection of soo many aspects of scientific and spiritual culture showing their deep interdependence and almost counter intuitive connections. where a secular engineer can have no bearing on mystical aspects of the world or not agree with it and yet be driven by the valur system of ancient mystical practices aswell as create the foundation for that mystical and magical reality to be brought forth in a deep cyclical pattern of culture. this book is far ahead of its time.

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