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TechGnosis

Myth, Magic & Mysticism in the Age of Information (Five Star Fiction)

By Erik Davis

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| Paperback | 9781852427726

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"A most informative account of a culture whose secular concerns continue to collide with their supernatural flip-side."-Voice Literary Supplement

In this dazzling book, writer and cyber guru Erik Davis demonstrates how religious imagination, magical dreams and millennialist fervor h Continue

"A most informative account of a culture whose secular concerns continue to collide with their supernatural flip-side."-Voice Literary Supplement

In this dazzling book, writer and cyber guru Erik Davis demonstrates how religious imagination, magical dreams and millennialist fervor have always permeated the story of technology. Through shamanism to Gnosticism, voodoo to alchemy, Buddhism to evangelism, TechGnosis peels away the rational shell of infotech to reveal the utopian dreams, alien obsessions and apocalyptic visions that populate the ongoing digital revolution.

Erik Davis' work has appeared in Wired, The Village Voice and Gnosis, and he has lectured internationally on technoculture and new forms of religion. He is a fifth-generation Californian who currently lives in San Francisco.

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  • Erik Davis: TechGnosis

    Chris Mitchell It’s traditional to think of technology as the epitomy of rationalism, functioning with the mechanical precision of mathematical logic and mindlessly performing laboursaving tasks for its human creators. But Erik Davis argues that the ... (read full critics)

    spikemagazine published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 435 Pages
  • Edition: New Ed
  • ISBN-10: 1852427728
  • ISBN-13: 9781852427726
  • Publisher: Five Star (ME)
  • Pub date: Oct 15, 2004
  • Dimensions: 1226 mm x 839 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
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