She Continues
I was fulfilling what seemed an entirely reasonable request from one of my spirits for additions to their altar, and my hand brushed up against the wings on their statue’s back. And I brushed against feathers and wing—actual feathers and wing—and I pulled back and kind of giggled and spun around a bit dizzy. I […] … Continue reading…Clairsentience & The “Real”
NB: From my journals, so please read the tone as more on-the-fly ponderings than anything else, but I’ve done some editing here for clarity. Heathen Chinese posted a fantastic article on TWH that links (conceptually) with my thoughts on glamours & egregores, thought-gods—of “leviathans” (via Hobbes[1] & elsewhere) as aggregate entities, social “golems” assembled in […] … Continue reading…[NB] Leviathan Glamours
I hear more horror stories about how people (often white men, but not always) abuse, threaten, and otherwise treat trans women, & I feel myself imagining myself in revenge fantasy worlds, project these monsters onto the rest of the world. And I notice that I’m erecting a fantasy world around myself that is enclosed, an […] … Continue reading…The White Man’s Glamour
We imagine ourselves all the time, even if we lump that imagining in with our everyday awareness of ourselves. Our fantasies involve us imagining what we want, imagining different situations that we may (could or wish to) find ourselves. Every action is arguably preceded by us imagining doing the action: we imagine hanging up a picture before we actually enact what we have imagined. … Continue reading…Light, Shadow, Darkness (4)
The Birth of Capitalist Time is inextricable from the birth of the factories, and the story of the birth of factories cannot be told without mentioning the Clockmakers. In fact, many of the machines of the factories were made by clockmakers, who had experience with the timing of gears, and E.P. Thompson notes that many […] … Continue reading…Chronomancy & Capitalism
Fetishes and Sticks – The Sorcery of Capitalism by Rhyd Wildermuth at The Wild Hunt A quick look at the magical side of commodification, reification, etc. … Continue reading…Marxist & Post-Marxist Takes on the Otherworldly
Behind the petty facades of the everyday, behind the numbers around us, the prices and wages and statistics, behind the logos and corporate sigils, there lurk dangerous chimerae, egregores, and gods. These gods are new American gods—which we seek to export and convert—our national spirit that we try to foist upon others, the Mickey, the […] … Continue reading…Thought-Gods & Daemons