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TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information
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TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information Paperback - 2015

by Davis, Erik

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  • Title TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information
  • Author Davis, Erik
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Paperback
  • Condition UsedVeryGood
  • Pages 456
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher North Atlantic Books, Berkeley
  • Date 2015-03-17
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 531ZZZ00N76R_ns
  • ISBN 9781583949306 / 1583949305
  • Weight 1.55 lbs (0.70 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 1.2 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 3.05 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Science/Technology Aspects
    • Topical: New Age
  • Library of Congress subjects Technological innovations - Social aspects, Information technology - Social aspects
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014035166
  • Dewey Decimal Code 303.483

From the jacket flap

Exploring the mystical impulses behind our obsession with information technology, TechGnosis presents a fascinating and passionately original perspective on technoculture.
Today we often assume that the triumph of technological rationality has condemned the spiritual imagination to the trash heap of history. But as Erik Davis explains, religious impulses and magical dreams permeate the history of technology. Ranging from the printing press to the telegraph, from radio to the Internet, David peels away the utilitarian shell of technology to reveal the mystical and millennialist fervor that attends each new communications breakthrough. As he unveils the hidden history of techno-mysticism, Davis shows how the religious imagination continues to feed the utopian dreams, apocalyptic visions, and alien obsessions that populate today's technological unconscious.
In these pages, Davis offers a lucid, playful, and astonishingly erudite journey through our hyper-mediated environment. Anyone grappling with the morphing boundaries and terminal speed of our present moment will want to take the ride.

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About the author

ERIK DAVIS is a scholar, journalist, and public speaker best known for his cultural analysis and creative explorations of esoteric mysticism. Davis has written about music, art, film, pop culture, and technology for Spin, Details, Rolling Stone, and Wired magazines. He is the author of Led Zeppelin IV (2005), The Visionary State: A Journey Through California's Spiritual Landscape (2006), and Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica (2010), and co-edited The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick (2011). Davis has appeared in a number of documentaries about technology and countercultural topics, including DMT: The Spirit Molecule, Electronic Awakening, and The Source. Along with Maja D'Aoust, he hosts a weekly podcast devoted to the "cultures of consciousness" called Expanding Mind, which is part of the Progressive Radio Network.