Cultivating Darkness

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• 00:00:00

  Well, thanks very much for joining us, both those who have come out into the bleak cold of Plymouth and those joining us on the live stream. Yeah, I wish all of you could be here sharing the mulled wine with us. My name's Robin and I'm the founder of the publishing house Urbanomic, which was founded in 2007. And…

• 00:08:30

  And as Amy discusses in her afterword, to return to the magical tradition, therefore, in Italy, in this context, is an extremely risky and powerful gesture. But these writings are also, rich with specific detail and mood of the climates that produce them, whether it's the techno-parties around Rome and the magical…

• 00:17:49

  We're in the midst of an occult war. On one side, the hierarchical hetero-patriarchal humanist hegemony of the doctrine of the right hand path. On the other, an anti-humanist, anti-authoritarian, queer, insurrectionary demonology that the group A to none invoke in the name of the left hand path. For those…

• 00:24:54

  We require an internal order to be maintained to guarantee our survival and the functioning of our machines. However, the second law of thermodynamics, which they refer to as the ultimate prophecy of doom channeled by science, tells us that this order is always only temporary. Not only is it not possible to convert…

• 00:31:25

  Once emancipated from the tyranny of this immaterial and immortal sovereign, a second diagram can be discerned within the ruins of the tree of life. The remaining nine sephirot arranged in three sets of three. Compose three triangles of evocation, the triangle being the shape traditionally used for summoning demons…

• 00:40:28

  Well, there's an Arabic version of it. I mean, you can look all this up online pretty easily if you look up Hermetic tradition. So Hermetic as in Hermes. And this set of beliefs gets sort of handed down through traditions like the Knights of the Templar Knights, the Rosicrucians, the British, I think they're a British…

• 00:51:27

  Could you say more? Rebecca's asking about what you see as the implications of the demonological ethics you just described for queer feminist thought. I think I... To give the kind of answer that I want to be able to give to that question, I think I need to sit down and think about it like how I would phrase it. I…

• 00:59:40

  It's going to seem like this is going to be all fictional. They're really real. Honestly, at the beginning of the day, we had at least three people who were going to talk to us and they've kind of disappeared one by one.