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- W86193743 abstract "When courses on Occult are among most well attended at universities (Sontag, 1986), it is somewhat unwise to eschew these topics or fail to recognize what makes them so attractive. Given explosion of Occult and New Age book stores since 1980s, cultural critics should explore how Occult discourses may either reinforce dominant ideologies or possibly subvert them. This explanation, in turn, would presumably involve an analysis, both semiological and historical, of past manifestations of Occultism. Mere critique of Occult as a reactionary practice steeped in religious ideologies, trapped as it is in demystifying practices that Max Horkheimer and T.W. Adorno (1993) refer to as dialectic of enlightenment, may be insufficient because the only kind of thinking that is sufficiently hard to shatter myths is ultimately (p. 4). By artificially dividing facts from values, Horkheimer argues, such modes of thinking separate knowledge from human interests (Bottomore, 1986). This self-destructive quality is all more apparent in cultural studies, of course, given its implicit goal of attaining knowledge about human behaviors. If, as publishers in Umberto Eco's novel Foucault's Pendulum (1986) discover, Occultism tends to thrive in cultures marked by confusion and decline of traditional authority, then it is all more important to sift through this confusion for new cultural directions. Although, with Occult-influenced media and television shows such as Charmed and Buffy Vampire Slayer becoming more and more prevalent, Occultism may have become a largely commodified set of mythologies, it pays to remember that Walter Benjamin (1999), in his study of 19th-century Paris, has envisioned more utopian uses of commodity. For if capitalism has reified Occultism, this standstill is utopia and dialectical image, therefore, [a] dream image. . . . afforded by commodity per se: as fetish (p. 10). In other words, spectacle of Occultism cannot be dismissed out of hand because its utopian element is precisely its ability to lead (however indirectly) to unconscious networks of culture." @default.
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- W86193743 title "Preliminary Explorations of an Occult Trickster Aesthetic" @default.
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