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Author: Erik Davis

Erik Davis is the author, most recently, of High Weirdness Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies. He also wrote the cult classic TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Information Age, a critical volume on Led Zeppelin’s fourth album, and Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica. Davis hosts a weekly podcast called Expanding Mind, and posts at techgnosis.com.

TUBE YOUR ENTHUSIASM (17)

By: Erik Davis

Paladin is an icon of neoliberal postwar American power.

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The Night Land (Intro)

By: Erik Davis

Introduction to our 2013 edition of William Hope Hodgson’s sci-fi novel.

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Quirk Your Enthusiasm (24)

By: Erik Davis

Tuxedomoon’s “Time to Lose”: a haunting layered confection of longing and regret.

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Grok My Enthusiasm (11)

By: Erik Davis

An album by one of the first boomer trailblazers of mystic India.

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Hermenautic Tarot (41)

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Erik Davis on FORBIDDEN FRUIT

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Crom Your Enthusiasm (1)

By: Erik Davis

Erik Davis on Jack Williamson’s DARKER THAN YOU THINK

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Gerald Gardner

By: Erik Davis

He invented the postwar religion of Wicca.

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Robert Anton Wilson

By: Erik Davis

A great novelist of high weirdness.

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Stewart Brand

By: Erik Davis

Since the ’60s, a grain-traversing thinker-doer.

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Norbert Wiener

By: Erik Davis

He foresaw the evils lurking in cybernetic command and control.

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Paschal Beverly Randolph

By: Erik Davis

A “tawny student of Esoterics.”

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Richard Corben

By: Erik Davis

He brought countercultural humor into sword and sorcery.

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Michel de Certeau

By: Erik Davis

Hacking the belly of the beast that has swallowed us up.

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Félix Guattari

By: Erik Davis

Rhizomes, assemblages, and abstract machines.

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David Lynch

By: Erik Davis

His flat sub-ironic tone is at once his method and “message.”

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