Technic and Magic: Politics, Neoplatonism, and the Limits of Language with Federico Campagna

Federico's 'The Last Night' on Zer0 Books:
https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/last-night


Technic and Magic:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/technic-and-magic-9781350044036/


We take for granted that only certain kind of things exist –
electrons but not angels, passports but not nymphs. This is what
we understand as 'reality'. But in fact, 'reality' varies with
each era of the world, in turn shaping the field of what is
possible to do, think and imagine. Our contemporary age has
embraced a troubling and painful form of reality: Technic.

Under Technic, the foundations of reality begin to crumble,
shrinking the field of the possible and freezing our lives in an
anguished state of paralysis. Technic and Magic shows that the
way out of the present deadlock lies much deeper than debates on
politics or economics. By drawing from an array of Northern and
Southern sources – spanning from Heidegger, Junger and Stirner's
philosophies, through Pessoa's poetry, to Advaita Vedanta,
Bhartrhari, Ibn Arabi, Suhrawardi and Mulla Sadra's theosophies –
Magic is presented as an alternative system of reality to
Technic. While Technic attempts to capture the world through an
'absolute language', Magic centres its reconstruction of the
world around the notion of the 'ineffable' that lies at the heart
of existence.

Technic and Magic is an original philosophical work, and a timely
cultural intervention. It disturbs our understanding of the
structure of reality, while restoring it in a new form. This is
possibly the most radical act: if we wish to change our world,
first we have to change the idea of 'reality' that defines it.


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