Spare and Frederick Carter on automatic drawing as a magical and artistic method. The technique later became the basis of Spare's sigil work.
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, through chaos magic and experimental audio-magick. Conversations with practitioners and crafted audio pieces.
Grant Morrison's essay on pop culture, comics, rock stars, brands, and advertising as modern sigil making and egregore building.
Browser-based cut-up text generator modeled on the Burroughs and Gysin technique. Paste in text and get it back cut up and rearranged.
Burroughs's short essay on the cut-up technique developed with Brion Gysin in 1959: take written text, cut it apart, rearrange the pieces.
Burroughs extends the cut-up method from the page to tape recorders and mass media, using recorded sound to scramble systems of control.
Carl Abrahamsson's Substack, named for the long-running journal The Fenris Wolf. Magic, art, psychology, and occult culture.
The Invisibles Paid
Grant Morrison's comic series. A conspiracy-occult story steeped in chaos magic. Morrison has described writing it as a magical working.
Materials from Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth, Genesis P-Orridge's late 20th century psychic magic network. Bulletins, sigil sheets, and ritual documents.
Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth describing its non-hierarchical "station and access point" structure.
Jan Fries on "freestyle shamanism": trance, breathwork, and freehand automatic drawing as a route to sigils and vision, from Zos Kia Cultus, Thelema, and Taoist sources rather than a fixed system.