From New Dawn 187 (Jul-Aug 2021) Carlos Castaneda burst onto the scene in the 1960s after rave reviews of his early books, The Teachings of Don Juan and A Separate Reality. This was during the early heyday of psychedelics and […]
May, 2024
Return of The Mind Parasites: Lovecraft, Wilson, & Phenomenological Science Fiction
From New Dawn 188 (Sept-Oct 2021) In 1959, while staying at the farmhouse of an old friend, the British existentialist Colin Wilson came across a book seemingly designed to attract his attention; the fact that it was the only one […]
The Eurasian Vision in the Great South Land
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 15 No 3 (July 2021) ‘Eurasia’ was not a name you heard in Australia thirty years ago. Apart from an obscure reference in academic publications focused on the Soviet Union, ‘Eurasia’ (Ezrasia) would occasionally […]
Manifesto of the New Magi
From New Dawn Special Issue Vol 15 No 3 (July 2021) “The new magi [wizards] establish their art and realise social upheavals. They specialise in geopolitics, mass science, and they subjugate the elements; they tame the Atlanticist Leviathan, and they fatten […]
‘All I Know is What is on the Internet’: The Emergence of the Post-Truth Age
From New Dawn 199 (Jul-Aug 2023) It must be said that postmodern philosophy has not received the best PR. As soon as people hear the names Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida and Debord, they predictably roll their eyes, expecting some pretentious spiel […]