Magick Matters

13.02.2021

“Fragments of an Infinite Memory: My Life with the Internet” by Mael Renouard

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“One day, as I was daydreaming on the boulevard Beaumarchais, I had the idea—it came and went in a flash, almost in spite of myself—of Googling to find out what I’d been up to and where I’d been two evenings before, at five o’clock, since I couldn’t remember on my own.” So begins Maël Renouard’s Fragments of an Infinite Memory, a provocative and elegant inquiry into life in a wireless world. Renouard is old enough to remember life before the internet but young enough to have fully accommodated his life to the internet and the gadgets that support it. Here this young philosopher, novelist, and translator tries out a series of conjectures on how...>>

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13.02.2021

“Information and the Nature of Reality: From Physics to Metaphysics” edited by Paul Davies and Niels Henrik Gregersen

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"Many scientists regard mass and energy as the primary currency of nature. In recent years, however, the concept of information has gained importance. Why? In this book, eminent scientists, philosophers and theologians chart various aspects of information, from quantum information to biological and digital information, in order to understand how nature works. Beginning with a historical treatment of the topic, the book also examines physical and biological approaches to information, and its philosophical, theological and ethical implications."...>>

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13.02.2021

“Ideology and Utopia” by Karl Mannheim

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"This book is concerned with the problem of how men actually think. The aim of these studies is to investigate not how thinking appears in textbooks on logic, but how it really functions in public life and in politics as an instrument of collective action. Philosophers have too long concerned themselves with their own thinking. When they wrote of thought, they had in mind primarily their own history, the history of philosophy, or quite special fields of knowledge such as mathematics or physics. This type of thinking is applicable only under quite special circumstances, and what can be learned by analysing it is not directly transferable to other spheres of life. Even when it is...>>

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13.02.2021

“The Secret of Life and the Beginning of Time: A Two Volume Set That Answers the Big Questions” by Stephen Hawley Martin

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"Want to know what caused the Big Bang? The source of life on earth? Who you are at the core? What life on Earth is all about? This book reveals this and more. Knowing the answers will make you one of only a handful of people alive today with his or her feet on solid ground, and it cannot help but result in a level of confidence and sense of purpose seldom experienced in this extremely chaotic and often confusing world."...>>

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12.02.2021

“The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial” edited by Sarah Tarlow and Liv Nilsson Stutz (illustrated edition)

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"The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial reviews the current state of mortuary archaeology and its practice, highlighting its often contentious place in the modern socio-politics of archaeology. It contains forty-four chapters which focus on the history of the discipline and its current scientific techniques and methods. Written by leading, international scholars in the field, it derives its examples and case studies from a wide range of time periods, such as the middle palaeolithic to the twentieth century, and geographical areas which include Europe, North and South America, Africa, and Asia. Combining up-to-date knowledge of relevant archaeological research with critical assessments of the theme and an evaluation of future research trajectories, it...>>

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