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Erik Davis
American writer and scholar. Author of TechGnosis (1998) and High Weirdness. Long-running commentator on the intersection of magic, technology, and counterculture.
The long-form essay that seeded Davis's 1998 book TechGnosis. Excerpted in Flame Wars (Duke University Press, 1994). Traces the mystical and magical undercurrents running through information technology, from medieval memory arts to cyberspace.