In “The Dark Throne – magic
He writes for Il Foglio, Libero and Il Riformista. , the volumes “The tyranny of emergency” (Liberilibri, 2023) and “Digital sovereignty between national security and constitutional order”, with M. Proietti (Pacini Giuridica, 2023) and “The dark throne – magic, power and technology in the contemporary world” (LUISS University Press, 2022), on which this interview focuses.
Interviewing him is
Roberto Siconolfi, sociologist, essayist and mediologist. He has been collaborating with numerous magazines and newspapers, both paper and online, since 2016. He writes essays and scientific publications at CRIFU, teaches Sociology and Mediology for UniTre, and is a speaker for the YouTube channel Libreria Cavour Esoterica. He is also a speaker for Lab Academy and the author of many of our blog posts.
Although technology is often
Seen as a symbol of progress, its foundations are intertwined with mysticism. Not only that, but even prominent figures in the technology Chinese in America field, such as Steve Jobs and Zuckerberg, are openly inclined towards spirituality.
During the interview, it is highlighted how the Gnostic tradition is reflected in the ambitions of Silicon Valley. This “technognosis” would profoundly influence individuals, especially through tools such as “Data Voodoo Dolls”, that is, digital alter egos of people created through mass profiling. Data, information have now surpassed material reality in value. Let’s delve into these issues.
In his work The Dark Throne he brings to light the hidden, esoteric, magical origins of the entire technological, computer, digital universe in which we are immersed. Is it possible? Do the technologies we have at hand have origins of this type? But aren’t they the fruit of progress?
When the British economist
When we are unable to explain a phenomenon, when, for example in the area of artificial intelligence, science merges in symbiosis, in the collective narrative, with dystopia and science fiction, and we fear intelligent mechanical forms that could despotically take over human beings, here the shadowy outline of magic returns to take shape along the horizon, called upon to give explanation and substance to what our mind cannot, or does not want, to understand.
It is no coincidence that Arthur C. Clarke Afghanistan phone number list coined his famous law according to which high technology eventually becomes indistinguishable from magic.
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