Download e-book for iPad: TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of by Erik Davis,Eugene Thacker

By Erik Davis,Eugene Thacker

ISBN-10: 0517704153

ISBN-13: 9780517704158

ISBN-10: 1583949305

ISBN-13: 9781583949306

How does our fascination with know-how intersect with the non secular mind's eye? In TechGnosis—a cult vintage now up-to-date and reissued with a brand new afterword—Erik Davis argues that whereas the nation-states of the electronic and the religious could seem worlds aside, esoteric and spiritual impulses have in truth consistently permeated (and occasionally encouraged) technological verbal exchange. Davis uncovers startling connections among such doubtless disparate subject matters as electrical energy and alchemy; on-line roleplaying video games and spiritual and occult practices; digital truth and gnostic mythology; programming languages and Kabbalah. the ultimate chapters tackle the apocalyptic desires that hang-out expertise, supplying very important old context in addition to new how you can take into consideration a destiny outlined via the mutant intermingling of brain and computer, nightmare and fantasy.

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