Early essay on automatic drawing as a magical and artistic method, co-written with Frederick Carter. Describes a subconscious technique of mark-making that became the technical basis for Spare's later sigil work. Full text on the Hermetic Library.
Chaos Current / Topic
Music and art
Chaos magic in music, visual art, comics, film, and other creative practice
Luxa Strata's podcast on magic, art, and ritual, framed through chaos magic and experimental audio-magick. Episodes mix conversations with practitioners and crafted audio pieces. Distributed via Apple Podcasts.
Morrison's essay from Book of Lies: The Disinformation Guide to Magick and the Occult. Argues that pop culture, comics, rock stars, brands, and advertising function as contemporary sigil making and egregore building. Available in full on the Internet Archive.
Browser-based cut-up text generator modeled on the Burroughs and Gysin technique. Paste source text, run it, and read the rearranged output. The parent site collects related word and language tools in the same tradition.
Burroughs's short essay on the cut-up technique he developed with Brion Gysin in 1959: take written text, cut it apart, rearrange the pieces. A direct technical influence on chaos magic sigil practice and on the later work of Genesis P-Orridge and Grant Morrison. Hosted by UbuWeb.
Carl Abrahamsson's Substack, named for his long-running occulture journal. Magic, art, psychology, and the contemporary occult-cultural conversation.
The Invisibles Paid
Morrison's comic series, published 1994 to 2000 by Vertigo. A conspiracy-occult epic whose plotting, characters, and sigil work draw directly on chaos magic. Morrison has described writing the series as itself a magical working.
Preserved materials from the Temple ov Psychick Youth, Genesis P-Orridge's late 20th century psychic magic network. Bulletins, sigil sheets, and ritual documents. TOPY practices influenced the broader chaos magic scene.
Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth's self-description of their non-hierarchical "station and access point" organisational model — a widely known alternative to the IOT's order structure in the 1980s and 1990s chaos-adjacent world. Hosted on the Hermetic Library.