{"product_id":"magic-paperback-1","title":"Magic - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJamie Sutcliffe\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first accessible reader on magic's generative relationship with contemporary art practice. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the hexing of presidents to a renewed interest in herbalism and atavistic forms of self-care, magic has furnished the contemporary imagination with mysterious and often disorienting bodies of arcane thought and practice. This volume brings together writings by artists, magicians, historians, and theorists that illuminate the vibrant correspondences animating contemporary art's varied encounters with magical culture, inspiring a reconsideration of the relationship between the symbolic and the pragmatic. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDispensing with simple narratives of reenchantment, \u003ci\u003eMagic\u003c\/i\u003e illustrates the intricate ways in which we have to some extent always been captivated by the allure of the numinous. It demonstrates how magical culture's tendencies toward secrecy, occlusion, and encryption might provide contemporary artists with strategies of remedial communality, a renewed faith in the invocational power of personal testimony, and a poetics of practice that could boldly question our political circumstances, from the crisis of climate collapse to the strictures of socially sanctioned techniques of medical and psychiatric care. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTracing its various emergences through the shadows of modernity, the circuitries of ritual media, and declarations of psychic self-defence, \u003ci\u003eMagic\u003c\/i\u003e deciphers the evolution of a \"magical-critical\" thinking that productively complicates, contradicts and expands the boundaries of our increasingly weird present.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJamie Sutcliffe is a writer, curator, and codirector of Strange Attractor Press. His writings have appeared in \u003ci\u003eArt Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFrieze\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRhizome\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.2 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 14, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42699025776703,"sku":"9780262543033","price":29.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/cf97366ff7923bce88699743e3a42a73.webp?v=1765012188","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/magic-paperback-1","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}