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  The Post-Truth World – Notes from the Occult (on our cybernetic present)

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  Robert Wright University of Wolverhampton

  January 28, 2017

  living in an information age we need to learn what that entails. The founder of cybernetics himself, ... broken the spell of the cyber-utopians and we should now hopefully learn that online ‘We are as wizards, ...
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  Selling Magic Through Spellslingers

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  Nick Bestor University of Texas at Austin

  June 08, 2016

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  of Spellslingers run between twenty to thirty minutes long; in the interest of brevity I have chosen ...
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  Magic as Aesthetic Event

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  Cameron Kunzelman Georgia State University

  June 07, 2016

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  running into each other at maximum force. He has a single out to win the game, and he takes it not just as ...
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  DMC: Magic for Change

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  Laurel Ahnert Georgia State University

  August 14, 2014

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  DMC: Magic for Change Tanzania minidocs Magicians Magic Kenya Drummond Thomas Money-Coutts documentary DMC Cairo Curator's Note We often think of magicians as flashy and spectacular, even campy (David Copperfield), or as possessing ironic dry wit pok ...
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  Maraş dondurmasi: Secrets of a Magical Ice Cream Commodity

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  Joe Culpepper University of Toronto

  August 11, 2014

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  Maraş dondurmasi: Secrets of a Magical Ice Cream Commodity Turkey Sleight of Hand performance Magic Istanbul Ice Cream Curator's Note Sleight-of-hand performances by vendors of maraş dondurmasi —Turkish ice cream from the city of Maraş, in the region ...