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Magick Matters
"A curator confronts grief, loss, and mortality by arranging the fragments of her life—objects, memories, impressions—into a fragile order.
Set in contemporary England, with Venice shimmering at its core, The Alchemy of Paradise follows her attempt to preserve what might otherwise vanish, shaping a collection that makes survival possible. When order fails to yield meaning, she turns to the alchemical, where matter shifts into metaphor and loss becomes transformation.
A novel of ideas told through poetic essays and reflections, The Alchemy of Paradise explores the tension between collecting and transmuting, order and disorder. In the spirit of Walter Benjamin’s collections, and in dialogue with writers like W.G. Sebald, Patti Smith, and Leanne Shapton, it meditates on...>>
"Gordon White’s sequel to his acclaimed Star.Ships is a book of adventure and encounter, of optimism and healing. Ani.Mystic: Encounters with a Living Cosmos is, explicitly, a magician’s book, a dreaming book, one which aims to fundamentally shift the discourse within the western magical tradition. Gordon explains, "the sole preoccupation of this book is exploring and uncovering animism as a dangerous category of European thought…"
Gordon begins by giving the standard definition of animism as "the belief that the world is made up of persons, only some of whom are humans", before taking us with him "to its farthest epistemological hinterlands". In dialogue with teachers of Indigenous knowledge, spirits, angels, star people, saints, plants, and...>>
