Hi
I’m an anthropologist who completed my PhD on Chaos magick nearly three
years ago. Despite plenty of ongoing fixed contract work teaching
anthropology (mainly in FE institutions), I’ve also found that
specialising in Chaos magick doesn’t seem to broaden the possibilities
where permanent academic job prospects are concerned - though I’m
intrigued to hear about the Chaos magick course at Nottingham. As a
consequence I’m reviewing my involvement in academia, though hoping that
the revived list might inspire me to re-think this! In truth, I’ve be
steadily losing interest in the Chaos scene per se and am becoming
increasingly enamoured with what cognitive anthropology and evolutionary
psychology have to say more generally about magic; even so, I do seem to
be wasting what spare time I have obsessively pursuing my interest in the
overlap between Lovecraftian fandom and ‘alternative’ spiritualities (an
article of mine dealing with Lovecraftian magick was published in the
issue 2 of the Journal for the Academic Study of Magic, and another in the
first issue of Mark’s ‘Strange Attractor’ journal).
Dan, I don’t know if you recall but we corresponded some years ago, around
the time you were writing ‘The Necronomicon Files’ - greatly admired
this and the article you wrote for Fortean Times awhile back.
Justin Woodman
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