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25.11.2020

“Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious” by N. Katherine Hayles

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"N. Katherine Hayles is known for breaking new ground at the intersection of the sciences and the humanities. In Unthought, she once again bridges disciplines by revealing how we think without thinking—how we use cognitive processes that are inaccessible to consciousness yet necessary for it to function. Marshalling fresh insights from neuroscience, cognitive science, cognitive biology, and literature, Hayles expands our understanding of cognition and demonstrates that it involves more than consciousness alone. Cognition, as Hayles defines it, is applicable not only to nonconscious processes in humans but to all forms of life, including unicellular organisms and plants. Startlingly, she also shows that cognition operates in the sophisticated information-processing abilities of technical systems: when ...>>

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25.11.2020

“Processes and Boundaries of the Mind: Extending the Limit Line” by Yair Neuman

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"The author of this volume explores questions of mind, reality, knowledge and signification in a provocative, stimulating and humorous way. Drawing on various domains such as systems research, semiotics, philosophy, and complexity sciences, he touches basic questions of our Being-in-the-World as cognate creatures, and presents a novel theory of the mind as a boundary phenomenon. "...>>

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24.11.2020

“Book of Curses” by River Lux (black edition)

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"With over 80 different types of curses and hexes, this manual was written for beginner and advanced Black Magick users. Curses and harmful spells are often the first thing which spring to the minds of the uninitiated on hearing the terms witchcraft, voodoo or hoodoo, yet few practitioners are willing to discuss the subject. This simple book provides a variety of harmful and vindictive spells. Described also is a method to avoid any backlash. A must have for any magickal library! I have been practicing for over 13 years, and the curses contained within these pages are some of the most potent ones I have ever come across. In order to curse, we tap upon ...>>

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24.11.2020

“Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World” by John G. Gager

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"In the ancient Greco-Roman world, it was common practice to curse or bind an enemy or rival by writing an incantation on a tablet and dedicating it to a god or spirit. These curses or binding spells, commonly called defixiones were intended to bring other people under the power and control of those who commissioned them. More than a thousand such texts, written between the 5th Century B.C.E. and the 5th Century C.E., have been discovered from North Africa to England, and from Syria to Spain. Extending into every aspect of ancient life--athletic and theatrical competitions, judicial proceedings, love affairs, business rivalries, and the recovery of stolen property--they shed light on a new dimension of ...>>

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24.11.2020

“Oracles, Curses, and Risk Among the Ancient Greeks” by Esther Eidinow

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"How did ancient Greek men and women deal with the uncertainty and risk of everyday life? What did they fear most, and how did they manage their anxieties? Esther Eidinow sets side-by-side two collections of material usually studied in isolation: binding curse tablets from across the ancient world, and the collection of published private questions from the oracle at Dodona in north-west Greece. Eidinow uses these texts to explore perceptions of risk and uncertainty in ancient society, challenging previous explanations. In these records we hear voices that are rarely, if ever, heard in literary texts and history books. The questions and curses in these tablets comprise fervent, sometimes ferocious appeals to the gods. The stories ...>>

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