How magic survived the disenchantment of the world

Hanegraaff, Wouter J.

doi:10.1016/s0048-721x(03)00053-8

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“…Unlike rationalism, participation is analogical and not reducible to primary reasoning (Hanegraaff 2003). Wouter Hanegraaff has defined disenchantment as a social pressure to conform to a scientific-rationalist worldview.…”

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Levitating the Pentagon

Laycock

2011

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On 21 October 1967 Allen Ginsberg, Abbie Hoffiman, and Ed Sanders of the band The Fugs, and others, organized an "exorcism" of the Pentagon in which several thousand demonstrators participated. Most historians have regarded this event as "a put on" or at best as "performance art. " This article takes seriously the nominal status of the ritual as a "saaed" or "magical" event. Tt argues that the organizers were utilizing innovative strategies of social action to alter the terms of debate regarding the Vietnam War.Inasmuch as these strategies drew on "secret" insights into the nature of social reality, they were seen as "magical" and in continuity withpre-modern esoteric traditions. Finally, it is argued that the new left turned to such tactics out of a deep frustration with traditional forms of democratic political engagement.

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Levitating the Pentagon

Laycock

2011

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“…Digital images on the screen appear real, but reflect an underlying fundamental reality of computer code that is invisible to the user, yet accessed by the programmers. In this analogy, the programmer is like the magician who operates in a supposed parallel reality with its own symbolic language, Hanegraaff thus finds it hardly surprising that many computer enthusiasts are also interested in magic and occulture (Hanegraaff , 370).…”

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Augmented Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and the Re‐enchantment of the World

Chaudhary¹

2019

Zygon

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There has recently been a surge of development in augmented reality (AR) technologies that has led to an ecosystem of hardware and software for AR, including tools for artists and designers to accelerate the design of AR content and experiences without requiring complex programming. AR is viewed as a key “disruptive technology” and future display technologies (such as digital eyewear) will provide seamless continuity between reality and the digitally augmented. This article will argue that the technologization of human perception and experience of reality, coupled with the development of artificial intelligence (AI)–based natural language assistants, may lead to a secular re‐enchantment of the world, in the sense outlined by Charles Taylor, where human existence is shaped through AR inhabited by advanced personal and social AI agents in the form of digital avatars and daemons, and that enchantment has been persistent throughout the formation of modernity and is being rekindled by the integration of AI in the plane of AR.

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“…La première se retrouve dans un christianisme charismatique particulièrement efficace, et pour lequel on peut se demander s'il n'y a pas quelques liens signifiants entre son succès impromptu et la dimension d'un « mysticisme accessible à tous », qui constitue en substance le fond de commerce de son entreprise évangélique (Coleman, 2004). Quant à la seconde, dont les racines protestantes ont été attestées (Faivre, 1996 ;Hanegraaff, 1996), on la retrouve sous la forme d'un ésotérisme moderne qui, lui aussi, a poussé loin ce principe d'intériorisation du surnaturel. Ce qu'on désignait il y a peu par New Age, et qu'on nomme aujourd'hui « nébu-leuse mystique ésotérique » ou « nouvelles croyances », est bien la dernière extension de cet ésotérisme qui, d'une part, constitue désormais une substantielle catégorie du champ religieux dans les sociétés de l'Occident chrétien et qui, d'autre part, est effectivement liée à la modernité d'un individualisme religieux et à l'affirmation des identités individuelles.…”

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Pons¹

2009

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How magic survived the disenchantment of the world

Cited by 77 publications

References 12 publications

Levitating the Pentagon

Levitating the Pentagon

Augmented Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and the Re‐enchantment of the World

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