Magic and the Will to Science: A Political Anthropology of Liminal Technicality [Hardcover]

This book offers a political anthropological perspective on the problematic character of science, showing how science grew out of magic and its variations, whilst demonstrating that the desire to use science to solve various problems of human existence has created a permanent liminal crisis.

Preface

Introduction??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????

Ch1 Magical doubles as liminal technicity??????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????

Ch2 Sensuals without borders: artificial man, artificial intelligence ???????????????????????

Ch3. The cunning of unreason: exposure to harm to transpose into a new status?? ???

Ch4. Recursive algorithm in the amplification of magic?????????????????? ???????????????????????

Ch5. The unknown factor of effusion in spiritualised science?????????? ???????????????????????

Ch6. Mind control????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????

Ch7. One tower: when the dead seized the living ???????????????????????????? ???????????????????????

Conclusion????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????

Bibliography?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????

Name Index

Subject Index

Magic has been for too long treated as a residual category rather than a phenomenon with its own significance. This book takes a large step in the path of recovering its ubiquity and bond with the normal.

- Stephen Turner, Distinguished University Professor, University of lc.