Andrew Sage

I'm sorry.

You can get pretty close to it.

Okay.

It's a kind of a mix of things really between conventional chaos magic and more theoretical, like weird theory stuff like Mark Fisher and the CCRU adjacent things.

We talk a lot about Mark Fisher, some land stuff, metafiction, theory fiction, hyperstition, Delta and myself talk about that.

magic through the internet quite a bit and how it combines with cultural theory, which is relevant to this conference.

Let's move over to my left.

I've been recruited along on this magical journey.

I'm Ryan.

I practiced the Vajrayana, a Greco-Egyptian magical practice, and also am involved in a Haitian voodoo house.

Prior to that, I was also an academic for a good period of time where I studied Renaissance rhetoric and political theory, philosophy, and economics.

So my contributions are going to be wide and varied.

We've been making a lot of Hegel jokes this weekend.

So many Hegel jokes.

Our last crew member, which people may have heard before on various shows.

Before we continue the conversation between myself and my three guests, let's start by discussing the word occulture, the namesake of the conference.

Obviously, this is a combination of the word occult and culture, and it describes how the two influence and possibly undermine one another.

I'm going to read a quote from the person who originated the term.

Quote, a culture is a word that was inevitable.

During the hyperactive phase of the Temple of Psychic Youth in the 1980s, we were casting around for an all-embracing term to describe an approach to combining a unique, demystified spiritual philosophy with a fervent insistence that all life and art are indivisible.