Technic and Magic

Federico Campagna is an Italian philosopher based in London. He is the author of The Last Night: anti-Work, Atheism, Adventure (2013) and What We Are Fighting For: a Radical Collective Manifesto (2012) and visiting lecturer at Royal College of Art, UK.

• PREFACE, ‘The Keymaker’ by Timothy MortonINTRODUCTIONCHAPTER ONE – TECHNIC’S WORLD- Crisis of Reality- Technic- Measure and Infinity- No Outside- Crisis of Action, Crisis of ImaginationCHAPTER TWO – TECHNIC’S COSMOGONY- Defining Terms- 1 Absolute Language- 2 Measure- 3 Unit- 4 Abstract General Entity- 5 Life As Vulnerability- Upper and Lower Limits: Ego Absconditus and Double Affirmation- ConclusionINTERMISSION – WHAT IS REALITY?- Between India and the West- Why Seek Reality?CHAPTER THREE – MAGIC’S COSMOGONY- Defining Terms- 1 The Ineffable as Life- 2 Person- 3 Symbol- 4 Meaning- 5 Paradox- Upper and Lower Limits: Double Negation and Deus Absconditus- ConclusionCHAPTER FOUR – MAGIC’S WORLD- Outside Within- Secret- Initiation- As if- Happy EndingBibliographyIndex

Federico Campagna's book is a brilliant tour de force that oscillates between lucid analyses of philosophical concepts, bridging the gap between Eastern and Western frameworks, and radical propositions for alternative worlds. By attempting to galvanize human perception out of its paralyzed and bordered state, what William Blake refers to as ‘the narrow chinks of [our] cavern’, Campagna expertly unravels the very foundations upon which our contemporary reality sits. Technic and Magic gradually builds towards a new and striking reconfiguration of reality that merges together the past, present and future.