- Quotes
Quote 4
It is too close, too far-out, its sacred transmissions too muddled with the scandalous grit of its concrete historical unfoldment
It is too close, too far-out, its sacred transmissions too muddled with the scandalous grit of its concrete historical unfoldment
Here you can download a scholarly essay I wrote at Rice University about the relationship between magick and science in the rocketry and sorcery of Jack Parsons (1914-1952): California iconoclast, co-founder of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and legendary practitioner of Thelema. Babalon Launching: Jack Parsons, Rocketry, and the "Method of Science" (PDF) The piece appeared in Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization, edited by Edward Bever and Randall Styers, and published by Pennsylvania State University Press in... - Esoterica, Scholarship, Technoculture
Babalon Launching
Jack Parsons, Rocketry, and the "Method of Science"Jack Parsons, Rocketry, and the "Method of Science"
Here you can download a scholarly essay I wrote at Rice University about the relationship between magick and science in the rocketry and sorcery of Jack Parsons (1914-1952): California iconoclast, co-founder of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and legendary practitioner of Thelema. Babalon Launching: Jack Parsons, Rocketry, and the "Method of Science" (PDF) The piece appeared in Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization, edited by Edward Bever and Randall Styers, and published by Pennsylvania State University Press in... - Technoculture14 min
It’s a Mud, Mud, Mud, Mud World
Exploring Online RealityExploring Online Reality
Here you can download a scholarly essay I wrote at Rice University about the relationship between magick and science in the rocketry and sorcery of Jack Parsons (1914-1952): California iconoclast, co-founder of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and legendary practitioner of Thelema. Babalon Launching: Jack Parsons, Rocketry, and the "Method of Science" (PDF) The piece appeared in Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization, edited by Edward Bever and Randall Styers, and published by Pennsylvania State University Press in... - Technoculture11 min
A Computer, A Universe
Mapping an Online CosmologyMapping an Online Cosmology
Here you can download a scholarly essay I wrote at Rice University about the relationship between magick and science in the rocketry and sorcery of Jack Parsons (1914-1952): California iconoclast, co-founder of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and legendary practitioner of Thelema. Babalon Launching: Jack Parsons, Rocketry, and the "Method of Science" (PDF) The piece appeared in Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization, edited by Edward Bever and Randall Styers, and published by Pennsylvania State University Press in... - Technoculture
Archive Fever
The Analog LifeThe Analog Life
Here you can download a scholarly essay I wrote at Rice University about the relationship between magick and science in the rocketry and sorcery of Jack Parsons (1914-1952): California iconoclast, co-founder of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and legendary practitioner of Thelema. Babalon Launching: Jack Parsons, Rocketry, and the "Method of Science" (PDF) The piece appeared in Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization, edited by Edward Bever and Randall Styers, and published by Pennsylvania State University Press in... - Technoculture36 min
Techgnosis: Seed-Crystal
Magic, Memory, and the Angels of InformationMagic, Memory, and the Angels of Information
Here you can download a scholarly essay I wrote at Rice University about the relationship between magick and science in the rocketry and sorcery of Jack Parsons (1914-1952): California iconoclast, co-founder of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and legendary practitioner of Thelema. Babalon Launching: Jack Parsons, Rocketry, and the "Method of Science" (PDF) The piece appeared in Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization, edited by Edward Bever and Randall Styers, and published by Pennsylvania State University Press in... - Technoculture10 min
Electricity, Magnets, and Vibes
The Electromagnetic ImaginaryThe Electromagnetic Imaginary
Here you can download a scholarly essay I wrote at Rice University about the relationship between magick and science in the rocketry and sorcery of Jack Parsons (1914-1952): California iconoclast, co-founder of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and legendary practitioner of Thelema. Babalon Launching: Jack Parsons, Rocketry, and the "Method of Science" (PDF) The piece appeared in Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization, edited by Edward Bever and Randall Styers, and published by Pennsylvania State University Press in... - Quotes
Quote 3
“Messages from beyond” are forms of information, and information is a trickster
“Messages from beyond” are forms of information, and information is a trickster
Here you can download a scholarly essay I wrote at Rice University about the relationship between magick and science in the rocketry and sorcery of Jack Parsons (1914-1952): California iconoclast, co-founder of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and legendary practitioner of Thelema. Babalon Launching: Jack Parsons, Rocketry, and the "Method of Science" (PDF) The piece appeared in Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization, edited by Edward Bever and Randall Styers, and published by Pennsylvania State University Press in... - Technoculture
My Data Crime
Copyrights and CrimeCopyrights and Crime
Here you can download a scholarly essay I wrote at Rice University about the relationship between magick and science in the rocketry and sorcery of Jack Parsons (1914-1952): California iconoclast, co-founder of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and legendary practitioner of Thelema. Babalon Launching: Jack Parsons, Rocketry, and the "Method of Science" (PDF) The piece appeared in Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization, edited by Edward Bever and Randall Styers, and published by Pennsylvania State University Press in... - Quotes
Quote 2
There is a difference between psychedelic experiences and psychedelic people
There is a difference between psychedelic experiences and psychedelic people
Here you can download a scholarly essay I wrote at Rice University about the relationship between magick and science in the rocketry and sorcery of Jack Parsons (1914-1952): California iconoclast, co-founder of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and legendary practitioner of Thelema. Babalon Launching: Jack Parsons, Rocketry, and the "Method of Science" (PDF) The piece appeared in Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization, edited by Edward Bever and Randall Styers, and published by Pennsylvania State University Press in... - Articles and Essays, Technoculture6 min
Technomancer: PKD
Divine DiscontentDivine Discontent
Here you can download a scholarly essay I wrote at Rice University about the relationship between magick and science in the rocketry and sorcery of Jack Parsons (1914-1952): California iconoclast, co-founder of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and legendary practitioner of Thelema. Babalon Launching: Jack Parsons, Rocketry, and the "Method of Science" (PDF) The piece appeared in Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization, edited by Edward Bever and Randall Styers, and published by Pennsylvania State University Press in... - Technoculture5 min
Barbed and Wired Net
Online after the Oklahoma BombingOnline after the Oklahoma Bombing
Here you can download a scholarly essay I wrote at Rice University about the relationship between magick and science in the rocketry and sorcery of Jack Parsons (1914-1952): California iconoclast, co-founder of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and legendary practitioner of Thelema. Babalon Launching: Jack Parsons, Rocketry, and the "Method of Science" (PDF) The piece appeared in Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization, edited by Edward Bever and Randall Styers, and published by Pennsylvania State University Press in... - Quotes
Quote 5
Terminal. What other journey, you might ask, begins at the end?
Terminal. What other journey, you might ask, begins at the end?
Here you can download a scholarly essay I wrote at Rice University about the relationship between magick and science in the rocketry and sorcery of Jack Parsons (1914-1952): California iconoclast, co-founder of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and legendary practitioner of Thelema. Babalon Launching: Jack Parsons, Rocketry, and the "Method of Science" (PDF) The piece appeared in Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization, edited by Edward Bever and Randall Styers, and published by Pennsylvania State University Press in... - Technoculture4 min
Videogames 1971-1984
The joy of joysticksThe joy of joysticks
Here you can download a scholarly essay I wrote at Rice University about the relationship between magick and science in the rocketry and sorcery of Jack Parsons (1914-1952): California iconoclast, co-founder of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and legendary practitioner of Thelema. Babalon Launching: Jack Parsons, Rocketry, and the "Method of Science" (PDF) The piece appeared in Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization, edited by Edward Bever and Randall Styers, and published by Pennsylvania State University Press in... - Religions and Spirits, Technoculture13 min
The Notebooks of Lance Daybreak
Shards of the Diamond MatrixShards of the Diamond Matrix
Here you can download a scholarly essay I wrote at Rice University about the relationship between magick and science in the rocketry and sorcery of Jack Parsons (1914-1952): California iconoclast, co-founder of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and legendary practitioner of Thelema. Babalon Launching: Jack Parsons, Rocketry, and the "Method of Science" (PDF) The piece appeared in Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization, edited by Edward Bever and Randall Styers, and published by Pennsylvania State University Press in... - Technoculture9 min
Perl creator Larry Wall
From divinity to programmingFrom divinity to programming
Here you can download a scholarly essay I wrote at Rice University about the relationship between magick and science in the rocketry and sorcery of Jack Parsons (1914-1952): California iconoclast, co-founder of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and legendary practitioner of Thelema. Babalon Launching: Jack Parsons, Rocketry, and the "Method of Science" (PDF) The piece appeared in Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization, edited by Edward Bever and Randall Styers, and published by Pennsylvania State University Press in... - Technoculture5 min
The Play-Doh of the Future, Here Today
The Soft Machine of GakThe Soft Machine of Gak
Here you can download a scholarly essay I wrote at Rice University about the relationship between magick and science in the rocketry and sorcery of Jack Parsons (1914-1952): California iconoclast, co-founder of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and legendary practitioner of Thelema. Babalon Launching: Jack Parsons, Rocketry, and the "Method of Science" (PDF) The piece appeared in Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization, edited by Edward Bever and Randall Styers, and published by Pennsylvania State University Press in... - Technoculture
Techgnosis Afterword
Afterward 2.0Afterward 2.0
Here you can download a scholarly essay I wrote at Rice University about the relationship between magick and science in the rocketry and sorcery of Jack Parsons (1914-1952): California iconoclast, co-founder of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and legendary practitioner of Thelema. Babalon Launching: Jack Parsons, Rocketry, and the "Method of Science" (PDF) The piece appeared in Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization, edited by Edward Bever and Randall Styers, and published by Pennsylvania State University Press in... - Technoculture16 min
Forging the Dragonslayer
Artisans are metalArtisans are metal
Here you can download a scholarly essay I wrote at Rice University about the relationship between magick and science in the rocketry and sorcery of Jack Parsons (1914-1952): California iconoclast, co-founder of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and legendary practitioner of Thelema. Babalon Launching: Jack Parsons, Rocketry, and the "Method of Science" (PDF) The piece appeared in Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization, edited by Edward Bever and Randall Styers, and published by Pennsylvania State University Press in... - Technoculture7 min
Game Over: the Mutation of Pinball
The evolution and decline of pinballThe evolution and decline of pinball
Here you can download a scholarly essay I wrote at Rice University about the relationship between magick and science in the rocketry and sorcery of Jack Parsons (1914-1952): California iconoclast, co-founder of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and legendary practitioner of Thelema. Babalon Launching: Jack Parsons, Rocketry, and the "Method of Science" (PDF) The piece appeared in Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization, edited by Edward Bever and Randall Styers, and published by Pennsylvania State University Press in... - Art and Design, Religions and Spirits, Technoculture10 min
Secret Earths
Re-animismRe-animism
Here you can download a scholarly essay I wrote at Rice University about the relationship between magick and science in the rocketry and sorcery of Jack Parsons (1914-1952): California iconoclast, co-founder of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and legendary practitioner of Thelema. Babalon Launching: Jack Parsons, Rocketry, and the "Method of Science" (PDF) The piece appeared in Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization, edited by Edward Bever and Randall Styers, and published by Pennsylvania State University Press in... - Religions and Spirits, Technoculture16 min
Lance Daybreak’s Digital Dharma
Surfing the IndranetSurfing the Indranet
Here you can download a scholarly essay I wrote at Rice University about the relationship between magick and science in the rocketry and sorcery of Jack Parsons (1914-1952): California iconoclast, co-founder of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and legendary practitioner of Thelema. Babalon Launching: Jack Parsons, Rocketry, and the "Method of Science" (PDF) The piece appeared in Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization, edited by Edward Bever and Randall Styers, and published by Pennsylvania State University Press in... - Technoculture
War in the Age of Intelligent Machines
Manuel De Landa and Computerized WarManuel De Landa and Computerized War
Here you can download a scholarly essay I wrote at Rice University about the relationship between magick and science in the rocketry and sorcery of Jack Parsons (1914-1952): California iconoclast, co-founder of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and legendary practitioner of Thelema. Babalon Launching: Jack Parsons, Rocketry, and the "Method of Science" (PDF) The piece appeared in Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization, edited by Edward Bever and Randall Styers, and published by Pennsylvania State University Press in... - Technoculture5 min
Into the Myst
Myst: The Miller Brothers' Virtual TaleMyst: The Miller Brothers' Virtual Tale
Here you can download a scholarly essay I wrote at Rice University about the relationship between magick and science in the rocketry and sorcery of Jack Parsons (1914-1952): California iconoclast, co-founder of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and legendary practitioner of Thelema. Babalon Launching: Jack Parsons, Rocketry, and the "Method of Science" (PDF) The piece appeared in Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization, edited by Edward Bever and Randall Styers, and published by Pennsylvania State University Press in... - Technoculture12 min
Space 1994: Looking Out, and Back
One Small Step for a Man, One Giant Explosion for Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9One Small Step for a Man, One Giant Explosion for Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9
Here you can download a scholarly essay I wrote at Rice University about the relationship between magick and science in the rocketry and sorcery of Jack Parsons (1914-1952): California iconoclast, co-founder of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and legendary practitioner of Thelema. Babalon Launching: Jack Parsons, Rocketry, and the "Method of Science" (PDF) The piece appeared in Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization, edited by Edward Bever and Randall Styers, and published by Pennsylvania State University Press in... - Technoculture7 min
Looking at Mars
Envisioning the Red PlanetEnvisioning the Red Planet
Here you can download a scholarly essay I wrote at Rice University about the relationship between magick and science in the rocketry and sorcery of Jack Parsons (1914-1952): California iconoclast, co-founder of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and legendary practitioner of Thelema. Babalon Launching: Jack Parsons, Rocketry, and the "Method of Science" (PDF) The piece appeared in Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization, edited by Edward Bever and Randall Styers, and published by Pennsylvania State University Press in... - Moving Pictures, Technoculture12 min
Modern Neopaganism
Reading the return of paganismReading the return of paganism
Here you can download a scholarly essay I wrote at Rice University about the relationship between magick and science in the rocketry and sorcery of Jack Parsons (1914-1952): California iconoclast, co-founder of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and legendary practitioner of Thelema. Babalon Launching: Jack Parsons, Rocketry, and the "Method of Science" (PDF) The piece appeared in Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization, edited by Edward Bever and Randall Styers, and published by Pennsylvania State University Press in...