Thelema Now!, the great American podcast focusing on Aleister Crowley and Thelemic culture, recently interviewed me. The result can now be heard via their site. The conversations touch upon magic and art, Cotton Ferox, Edda Publishing, the novel Mother, Have A Safe Trip, inspiration, Fredrik Söderberg, The Fenris Wolf, Crowley’s erotica, the Here To Go symposium, the An Art Apart documentary series and more. Many thanks to Frater Puck and Thelema Now. Photograph: Åsa Ersmark
[The following text is culled from Scarlet Imprint’s webpage, where you can now pre-order my book Reasonances.] Reasonances is an anthology of selected essays, lectures and interviews by occultural pioneer Carl Abrahamsson. A subversive, creative, psychedelic collection of 23 essays spanning thirteen years at the forefront of occulture and magic, followed an interview with the author by Sylvie Walder. The unifying question of this diverse and stimulating collection can perhaps be stated thus: how does magic hack culture? Or perhaps even: what is the role and magic of the artist? Abrahamsson proposes strategies of engagement that draw from TOPY, Thelema and Satanism, with which he is intimately acquainted. His magic is that of the interzone, the hinterland, of the unseen forces that drive culture forward. Reasonances is therefore a nexus of heretical possibilities investigated with a calm reflection that goes beyond his native Scandinavian cool. It is with great generosity...
We live in turbulent times that are sometimes hard to grasp. The vast amounts of stupidity and the further stupid reactions to this stupidity have created a terrifyingly negative situation we all have to face. Over-consumption, over-population, massive collectivism (including its most brutal and stupid form: monotheism) and an angst-ridden denial through petty consumerist compensations… What a mess! Over the past few decades, hardly any writer has become more prescient and insightful than the German Ernst Jünger (1895-1998). It’s interesting to note that his most precise critique actually dates back almost a century (Der Arbeiter, 1923, for instance). In novels and a multitude of essays, specifically those from after the second world war, he elegantly touches upon the problems that infest us today, complete with technological foresight (mobile phones, the internet and more). The current superstitious belief in technology and empirical science, in statistics, in...
Autumn is good! Lots of things happening and energy levels are up again. Please find enclosed some news about upcoming events. Newsflash: Camion Noir in France has just published my anthology of articles, lectures and other writings 2000-2013 called Raisonances. It will be available in an English edition (Reasonances) through Scarlet Imprint slightly later in the autumn. August 29-September 7: Restaurering av inre rum. Group show at Charlottenburgs Gård, Solna/Stockholm. I show one photograph in a very eclectic mix of work by equally eclectic artists: Jan Håfström, Karin Mamma Andersson, Jeannin/Schuurmans, Viktor Rosdahl, Åsa Ersmark, Lasse Åberg, Christine Ödlund and many others. More information can be found here! The opening is on Friday the 29th between 4 and 8 pm. You’re welcome to join the party! September 5-9: OTOK conference, Croatia. I will give a lecture called “Challenging inertia and entropy: creativity as a transformative tool”. Sorry, this...