#ErikDavis: "There is a reason that #esoteric things were esoteric throughout the history of #culture and #religion, and it is that they are not for everybody, at least at the stage most people are, trying to just make a living, trying to keep their families together... because a lot of these […]
I wrote a blog piece about this #book and another book about #weird things a couple of years ago …
#books #weirdness #ErikDavis #MarkFisher
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!
#Books #BookSky #BookChallenge #HighWeirdness #ErikDavis #Esoterica #Psychedelics #PhilipKDick #RobertAntonWilson #TerenceMcKenna
“By manufacturing a multiverse of #virtualrealities, #simulation can end the world simply by throwing the stability of all worlds into permanent crisis.” - #ErikDavis, TechGnosis: Myth, Magic and Mysticism in the Age of Information
“Unlike the figures of Egyptian lore, our mnemonic #icons no longer no longer mediate the animist power of magic or the social magic of kings, but the power of #corporate identity and the #commodityfetish.” - #ErikDavis, TechGnosis: Myth, Magic and Mysticism in the Age of Information
“Though #technology was by no means the only way #humans expressed or inculcated their experience of standing apart from #nature, it certainly became the Western way.” - #ErikDavis, TechGnosis: Myth, Magic and Mysticism in the Age of Information.
“ #sciencefiction (is) the twentieth century’s most ardent, visionary and technologically savvy #literature of #ideas.” - #ErikDavis, TechGnosis: Myth, Magic and Mysticism in the Age of Information
“Since the empire of global #capitalism is wagering the future of the planet on #technology, we are right to distrust any myths that obscure the enormous costs of the path we’ve taken” - #ErikDavis, TechGnosis: Myth, Magic & Mysticism in the Age of Information
