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Two forthcoming talks at Treadwells Bookshop in Covent Garden might be of interest:
07 September 2006 (Thursday)
Marie Laveau and New Orleans Voodoo
Allison Brice
£5.00
7.15 for 7.30pm start
Who was Marie Laveau? For more than two centuries, her legacy has intrigued both the people of her native city, and foreigners alike. Each season, thousands of devotees visit her tomb in New Orleans, paying homage to her memory, and requesting her spiritual assistance and favour. Yet in actuality, the notorious Voodoo Queen of New Orleans was in fact two women: a mother and daughter pair of Creole priestess renowned for the assistance they provided to their communities, yet reviled and slandered by the sensational press of their day.
New Orleans native and vodouisant Allison Brice explores the mysterious lives of both these enigmatic women, and the lasting impact that their legacy has had upon present day Louisiana Voodoo.
13 September 2006 (Wednesday)
Memories of a philosopher: Deleuze & Sorcery
Explorations and Implications for Magic
Matt Lee, University of Greenwich
£5.00
7.15 for 7.30 start
Matt Lee introduces some key concepts in the thought of Gilles Deleuze and considers their implications for contemporary magic. Deleuze challenges much of received wisdom, including many ideas pervasive in occultism. He takes concepts of the individual, of reality, of perception and of imagination – and shifts them radically as he attempts to destroy an 'image of thought' -- a mind-set that constrains thought itself. Matt Lee looks at how this applies as much to occultists as it does to philosophers, and proposes that Deleuze can open up a renewed and radically different conceptual basis in magic. If one follows Deleuze, what arises is a reality in which the entities and forces of the world take on an enfleshed and formless life, more terrifyingly real than anything previously imagined except in the dark corners of a few broken minds. Matt Lee is a lecturer in philosophy at Greenwich University and a practising chaos magician from Brighton. |
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