TechGnosis: Myth, Magic & Mysticism in the Age of Information by Erik Davis
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Dense book with complicated ideas and deep meanings. Makes me question the importance of eloquence and elegant writing when it can create noise in the work itself. TechGnosis shows how technology, digital media and computers have not made magic and mysticism obsolete but merely replaced them with something else, at times proving themselves to be great catalyst for the fusion of the two worlds (like technopaganism or scientology). Unfortunately, I can’t remember much of it book because of the way it’s written. I hope one day I can sink my teeth deeper into it. I also hope that same day a new edition will come out that will illustrate even better how technology has infiltrated a lot more into our lives since TechGnosis was written in the late ’90s.
