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Column: The Tiger’s Leap
In 1940, Walter Benjamin wrote, “The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the ’emergency situation’ in which we live is the rule. We must arrive at a concept of history which corresponds to...
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Book Review: The Tao of Craft
The Tao of Craft: Fu Talismans and Casting Sigils in the Eastern Esoteric Tradition by Benebell Wen. Published by North Atlantic Books (600 pages) The Tao of Craft, by Benebell Wen (also author of...
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Column: Resiliency and the Spirit War
“6-3-6: The concept of politics has then become completely absorbed into a war of spirits.” —Nietzschemanteion The Star, Tarot de Marseille, Jean Noblet. Public Domain. Or as Diane di Prima wrote,...
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Column: Animism and the Eternal Recurrence of Myth
The fourth century C.E. Neoplatonist Sallustius, a friend of the Roman Emperor Julian (who revoked Christianity’s status as state religion and attempted to revive polytheist worship), wrote in On the...
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Column: Loki and Dionysos
“Have I been understood? Dionysus against the Crucified!” —Nietzsche, final line of Ecce Homo Drawing by Hans Olde [public domain]. On Jan. 3, 1889, Nietzsche witnessed a horse being whipped in the...
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Column: A review of Star.Ships
Gordon White’s Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits, published by Scarlet Imprint in 2016, challenges the overly materialistic shortsightedness of both academic and “ancient aliens” theories...
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Column: Whiteness is Dead
Whiteness is dead. James Baldwin proclaimed it back in 1972, prophesying ominously that there would be “bloody holding actions all over the world, for years to come.” The holding actions have gotten...
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Column: Spartacus and the Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement
In nomine Spartaci, Sibyllae, et Furoris Bacchici The name of Spartacus has withstood over two millennia of slavery and empire, and become immortalized within the insurrectionary tradition. The...
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Column: California Wildfires
Some say the world will end in fire Some say in ice From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire — Robert Frost At the time of writing, 22 different wildfires in Northern...
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Column: Psychogeography
Psychogeography is the effect of place upon the psyche and the importance of the psyche within the landscape. The term was first discussed in the early 1950s by Guy Debord of the Situationist...
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