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Monday, July 14th, 2008If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Plutonica.net guest blogger Brendan Cathbad Myers, author of six books to date, has a new book coming out July 25th, 2008 from O-Books. Its full title is: The Other Side of Virtue: Where Our Virtues Come From, What They [...]
Anarchy and information
Friday, July 4th, 2008I first came across Siva Vaidhyanathan’s excellent and wonderfully lucid book, The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System, via Wes Unruh’s recommendation on Alterati.com.
It looks at the way we interact with information with a focus on ownership and distribution, arguing that [...]
News: One take on the OTO UK trademark case
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008Mogg Morgan, of the occult publishing house Mandrake of Oxford, has generously allowed me to reprint his take on this case which originally appeared in issue no. 214 of the publisher’s online newsletter, Mandrake Speaks.
Two new books from Teitan Press by Jack Parsons and Frederick Hockley
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008While John Whiteside Parsons is best remembered by mainstream science as the inventor of the solid fuel that helped make space travel possible, occultists know Jack Parsons as a devoted Thelemite, chosen by Aleister Crowley in the early forties to lead Agape Lodge, an Ordo Templi Orientis lodge in California.
Parsons’ Freedom Is a Two Edged [...]
Review: Women of Power, by Jaq D. Hawkins
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008Women of Power: The Woman As Magus, by Jaq D. Hawkins
CapallBann Publishing, 186163241X, (153 pp. including appendices, bibliography and index), 2006
“…most of the books on ceremonial magic continue to be written by men, despite significant numbers of female members existing in ceremonial magical Orders.”
Jaq D. Hawkins is the author of several books on magick. Her [...]
Magical correspondences and social values
Monday, June 23rd, 2008Dr Brendan Cathbad Myers is the author of several books on radical Paganism and Druidry, his latest, The Other Side of Virtue: Where Our Virtues Come From, What They Really Mean, and Where They Might Be Taking Us, will be published by O Books in July 2008.
A spiritual path is, among other things, a way [...]
News: Pessoa-Crowley letters to be auctioned upsets Portugal’s literati
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 Fernando Pessoa is said to be one of the greatest Portuguese poets of modern times; indeed, some say the four greatest poets, due to his penchant for writing under alter egos with distinct literary personalities all their own. Though when he died in 1935 he was virtually unknown.
When the poet died in obscurity [...]