#Chris Gosden

[russellmoreton]

Immaterial Architecture : Waverley Pavilion by Russell Moreton Via Flickr: russellmoreton.blogspot.com/ Building The Drawing. The drawing as analogue allows more subtle relations, of technique, material and process, to develop between drawing and building. Immaterial Architecture The Illegal Architect Jonathan Hill Oak Tree Oil Paper Plaster Rust Sgratfito Silence Sound Steel Television Weather Frosted Light Index of immaterial architectures TRANSPARENCY : LITERAL AND PHENOMENAL Colin Rowe, Robert Slutzky Interactions of the Abstract Body Josiah McElheny Object Lesson Interactive Abstract Body (Square) The Spatial Body (After Fontana) Tracing Eisenman Stan Allen Indexical Characters FABRIC=MASS+ FORM Alan Chandler The interest in fabric formwork is in its deployment in a building process, which is faster than conventional formwork. Fabric formwork is inherently more sustainable due to the minimising of both concrete and shuttering, and more radically, allows the constructor to intervene in the process of casting even as the cast is taking place. ANTI OBJECT Kengo Kuma We are composed of matter and live in the midst of matter. Our objective should not be to renounce matter, but to search for a form of matter other than objects. What that form is called- ARCHITECTURE, GARDENS< TECHNOLOGY is not important. ReThinking Matereriality The engagement of mind with the material world Elizabeth DeMarrais, Chris Gosden, Colin Renfrew The Affordances of Things Towards a Theory of Material Engagement Aesthetics, Intelligence and Emotions Relationality of Mind and Matter Material Agency Towards a Non-Anthropocentric Approach Carl Knappett, Lambros Malafouris At The Potter's Wheel : An Argument for Material Agency We should replace our view of cognition as residing inside the potter's head, with that of cognition enacted at the potter's wheel. The Neglected Networks of Material Agency : Artefacts, Pictures and Texts Material Agency as Cognitive Scaffolding The Cognitive Life of Things Material Engagement and the Extended Mind Lambros Malafouris, Colin Renfrew Minds, Things and Materiality Michael Wheeler Communities of Things and Objects : A Spatial Perspective Carl Knappett Imagining the Cognitive Life of Things Edwin Hutchins Things and Their Embodied Environments Architectures for Perception Structuring Perception through Material Artifacts Charles Goodwin Leach Pottery, Studio and Museum A Potter's Book Bernard Leach Adventures of the Fire, Vessels Through Time Ceramic Pavilion People make space, and space contains people Ceramic space and life Gordon Baldwin Objects For A Landscape David Whiting Vessels-Spaces that cannot be drawn, rather they need to be experienced. Imagining a Vessel in a Rock on a Beach, 2006,(charcoal on paper) The Architecture of The Ceramic Vessel The use of the vessel in the investigation of our world. The exploration through the dichotomy of the analysis between exterior and interior, of one pot to another and from the message they convey. MATERIAL MATTERS ARCHITECTURE AND MATERIAL PRACTICE Katie Lloyd Thomas PLENUMS : RETHINKING MATTER, GEOMETRY AND SUBJECTIVITY Peg Rawes ARCHITECTURE IN THE AGE OF DIVIDED REPRESENTATION The Question of Creativity in the Shadow of Production Dalibor Vesely The Nature of Communicative Space Creativity in the Shadow of Modern Technology The Rehabilitation of Fragment Towards a Poetics of Architecture The Projective Cast Architecture and its Three Geometries Robin Evans Architects do not produce geometry, they consume it Analysing ARCHITECTURE Simon Unwin Geometries of Being Architecture as Making Frames Space and Structure

[paramaxed]

[spiralhouseshop]

New in the Spiral House Shop!

September 29, 2023

The Long Hidden Friend by John George Hohman Edited and Illustrated by Gemma Gary

Magic: A History: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present by Chris Gosden

The White Deer: Ecospirituality and the Mythic by Melinda Reidinger

Real Alchemy: A Primer of Practical Alchemy by Robert Allen Bartlet

Visual Alchemy: A Witch's Guide to Sigils, Art, and Magic by Laura Tempest Zakroff

How to Deal: Tarot for Everyday Life by Sami Main

Small Magics: Practical Secrets from am Appalachian Village Witch by H Byron Ballard

The Seed & Sickle Oracle Deck by Fez Inkwright

Crafting a Daily Practice: A Simple Course on Self-Commitment by T Thorne Coyle

The Gorgon's Guide To Magical Resistance edited by Laura Tempest Zakroff

[thesorcerersapprentice]

Image Text: "The practices and philosophy of magic come from a sense of kinship with other living things, the landscape and the heavens. through magic we can explore mutuality: how we are joined to the rest of the universe and the manner in which we can affect things around us." - Magic: A History by Chris Gosden.

[professionalowl]

Actually, while we're shaming people for their 452 unread books, here's a list of unread books of mine of which I own physical copies, attached to the year I obtained them, so that you can all shame me into reading more:

2024: Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence (James Bridle; just started)

2021: Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape (Cal Flyn)

2024: Extreme Fabulations: Science Fictions of Life (Steven Shaviro)

2021: The Unreal & The Real Vol. 1: Where on Earth (Ursula K. Le Guin)

2023: A Study in Scarlet (Arthur Conan Doyle)

2023: Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living (Dmitri Xygalatas)

2023: Vibrant Matter: A political ecology of things (Jane Bennett)

2023: The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present (Chris Gosden)

2018: Ways of Seeing (John Berger)

2022: An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Ed Yong)

2020: Owls of the Eastern Ice: The Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl (Jonathan C. Slaught)

2023: My Life in Sea Creatures (Sabrina Imbler)

2020: The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think (Jennifer Ackerman)

2023: Birds and Us: A 12,000-Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation (Tim Birkhead)

2020: Rebirding: Restoring Britain's Wildlife (Benedict Macdonald)

2022: The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human (Siddhartha Mukherjee)

2022: An Anthropologist on Mars (Oliver Sacks)

2021: Sex, Botany & Empire: The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks (Patricia Fara)

2023: At The Mountains of Madness (H.P. Lovecraft)

2019: Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino; I have been trying to finish this forever and am so, so close)

2023: Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf (Sean Duffy)

2021: What is History, Now? How the past and present speak to each other (Helen Carr and Suzannah Lipscomb; essay collection, half-read)

2020: Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England (Thomas Penn)

2022: Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation (Silvia Federici)

2020: Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Touissant Louverture (Sudhir Hazareesingh; half-read)

2019: The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (Hallie Rubenhold; 3/4 read)

2022: Lenin on the Train (Catherine Merridale)

2020: October: The Story of the Russian Revolution (China Miéville)

2019: The Villa, the Lake, the Meeting: Wannsee and the Final Solution (Mark Roseman)

2019: Heimat: A German Family Album (Nora Krug)

2018: Maus I: My Father Bleeds History (Art Spiegelman)

2020: Running in the Family (Michael Ondaatje)

2022: Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys; also never technically "finished" Jane Eyre, but I did my time, damn you)

2023: Time Shelter (Georgi Gospodinov)

2019: Our Man in Havana (Graham Greene; started, left unfinished)

2019: The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (John le Carré)

2021: Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Reni Eddo-Lodge; half-read)

2017: Rebel Without Applause (Lemn Sissay)

2022: The Metamorphosis, and Other Stories (Franz Kafka)

2011?: The Complete Cosmicomics (Italo Calvino; vaguely remember reading these when I was maybe 7 and liking them, but I have forgotten their content)

2022: Free: Coming of Age at the End of History (Lea Ypi)

2021: Fairy and Folk Tales of Ireland (W.B. Yates)

Some of these are degree-related, some not; some harken back to bygone areas of interest and some persist yet; some were obtained willingly and some thrust upon me without fanfare. I think there are also some I've left at college, but I'm not sure I was actually intending to read any of them - I know one is an old copy of Structural Anthropology by Claude Levi-Strauss that Dad picked up for me secondhand, which I...don't intend to torment myself with. Reading about Tom Huffman's cognitive-structural theory of Great Zimbabwe almost finished me off and remains to date the only overdue essay I intend to never finish, mostly because the professor let me get away with abandoning it.

There are also library books, mostly dissertation-oriented, from which you can tell that the cognitive archaeologists who live in my walls finally fucking Got me:

The Rise of Homo sapiens: The Evolution of Modern Thinking (Thomas Wynn & Fred Coolidge)

The Material Origin of Numbers: Insights from the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (Karenleigh A. Overmann)

Archaeological Situations: Archaeological Theory from the Inside-Out (Gavin Lucas)

And, finally, some I've actually finished recently ("recently" being "within the past year"):

The Body Fantastic (Frank Gonzalo-Crussi, solid 6/10 essay collection about a selection of body parts, just finished earlier)

An Entertainment for Angels: Electricity in the Enlightenment (Patricia Fara, also a solid 6/10, fun read but nothing special)

Babel: An Arcane History (R.F. Kuang, 8/10, didactic (sometimes necessary) but effective; magic system was cool and a clever metaphor)

The Sign of Four (A.C. Doyle, 2/10 really racist and for what)

Dr. Space Junk vs. the Universe: Archaeology and the Future (Alice Gorman, 8/10, I love you Dr. Space Junk)

In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology (Lucy Moore, 8/10, I respect some of these people slightly more now)

The Dispossessed (Ursula K. Le Guin, 9/10 got my ass)

The Hound of the Baskervilles (A.C. Doyle, 7/10 themez 👍)

[wickedlittlecritta]

actually while i'm recommending books, read chris gosden's magic: a history. it's about magic as the way humans participate with the universe. i think it pairs beautifully with braiding sweetgrass as a way to change the way you'll view and interact with the world.

[coinandcandle]

Hello✨️ I would like to start in the witchcraft, research, knowing etc. We had long ago, but I move away from it by turns of life. Now I have realized that it is more about a need, something that my spirit calls, although I still in a process, I want to tilt the balance to this side more than to modern and harmful rationality. I would like to please, I will teach me I recommend that, start reading, history history, tools for this study and practice.

Thanks

Ok friend this ask is a little difficult to understand due to the wording (or perhaps it's cuz I'm hopped up on cold meds currently and i just got back from a long day of walking outside). But it sounds like you're asking for some resources to study the history of witchcraft?

I have started reading the book "Magic: A History" by Chris Gosden and he takes a very history-focus approach to it and doesn't give a "high and mighty" vibe like some other authors do. That might be a good place to start because he goes over magic from the dawn of humanity basically.

Other than that, Wikipedia is a good place to start learning about a topic. It will give you a good summary (most of the time) and the pages are riddled with citations and links to where they get their info.

Ronald Hutton is also a great resource for reading, though there are a few videos of his lectures. As are Dr. Justin Sledge of Esoterica and Dr. Angela Puca of Angela's Symposium if you prefer video format.

I hope this helps!! Let me know if I misunderstood the ask and I'll redo the answer <3

[friend-crow]

Finally got that Chris Gosden audiobook and I've been really enjoying it. Very interesting and strangely affirming at times.

[tidepoolswip]

Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space - Amanda Leduc

Magic: A History: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present - Chris Gosden

The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe - David M. Perry & Matthew Gabriele

The Dancing Goddesses: Folklore, Archaeology, and the Origins of European Dance - Elizabeth Wayland Barber

Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear - Erica Berry

admittedly, i'm the most excited to read wolfish and disfigured, though they will likely have the least direct impact on my worldbuilding. they'll be like the salt & pepper, the seasoning that brings out the other flavors and you may not notice... running on very little sleep if you couldn't tell

i will be skimming magic: a history & reading only select chapters from the bright ages bc i am only interested in a specific time period/location - medieval france, specifically

[darkdoverpseeker]

21+ semi-experimental rp, not fandom specific*, exploring the notion of spirituality as a mode of relating to existence and what it means to relate to a transcendent being (building off Chris Gosden's definition of religion). It would, then, be more conversational in nature. Overall, I would call it a collaborative, post-modern art project using interaction as the medium and existentialism as the mode.

My Muse is named Báme and is connected to Mercury (as broadly as the symbol can be applied and interpreted) and the Sephiroth of Hod. She is the Goddess of Magick, Analysis, and Communication; although it should be noted She is the personification of symbols rather than Concepts, and therefore open to interpretation. By Her Mercurial nature, obviously there is a question of hermeneutics and consistency. The philosophical implications of this will play out in practice.

This is open to any character, OC or not, as I think a dynamic stance will get the most out of the concept (see footnote below). Likewise, I think it more interesting to see what possibilities lie in stylistic variance than limiting it one way or another; that said, my preference can probably be ascertained by my own. In terms of content, I have mixed feelings, so I'll just say remember there's a fleshy human on the other side - please use your best judgement and avoid being actively hurtful.

The main methods of interaction are asks, acting as 'prayers' (which may or may not be answered), and submissions, acting as 'offerings'. Additionally, people can like this post if they'd like their character to have a 'spiritual experience', ie to receive an ask, that being the Call to Adventure of the scene/scenario/etc. If you're wanting to explore NSFW themes, keep in mind it will be posted publicly if I respond (ie no dms atm and no anon asks).

Footnote

*If we consider divinity as (to put it reductively) the phenominological interaction with a concept (ie the important part of spirituality being the experience, not what lies on the other side of said experience; as Nietzsche put it, "The question of religion is not truth, but does it inspire?", or Joseph Campbell's notion that religion is the "window we draw around Nothing" so we know where to look) we can therefore put this in a modal realist context, ie there is no canon beyond the 'magic circle', as Huizinga might put it, of the activity - although challenging this could be interesting.

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[thesorcerersapprentice]

Image Text: “A belief in magic does not make people irrational, and [...] the contrast between magic and science is not between irrationality and rationality; rather, people work with various forms of logic that are argued from radically different premises." - Magic: A History by Chris Gosden.

[farararocket]

OOC Blog Explainer

21+ semi-experimental rp, not fandom specific*, exploring the notion of spirituality as a mode of relating to existence and what it means to relate to a transcendent being (building off Chris Gosden's definition of religion). It would, then, be more conversational in nature. Overall, I would call it a collaborative, post-modern art project using interaction as the medium and existentialism as the mode.

My Muse is named Báme and is connected to Mercury (as broadly as the symbol can be applied and interpreted) and the Sephiroth of Hod. She is the Goddess of Magick, Analysis, and Communication; although it should be noted She is the personification of symbols rather than Concepts, and therefore open to interpretation. By Her Mercurial nature, obviously there is a question of hermeneutics and consistency. The philosophical implications of this will play out in practice.

This is open to any character, OC or not, as I think a dynamic stance will get the most out of the concept (see footnote below). Likewise, I think it more interesting to see what possibilities lie in stylistic variance than limiting it one way or another; that said, my preference can probably be ascertained by my own (possibly pretentious) writing style. In terms of content, I have mixed feelings, so I'll just say remember there's a fleshy human on the other side - please use your best judgement and avoid being actively hurtful.

The main methods of interaction are asks, acting as 'prayers' (which may or may not be answered), and submissions, acting as 'offerings'. Additionally, people can like this post if they'd like their character to have a 'spiritual experience', ie to receive an ask, that being the Call to Adventure of the scene/scenario/etc. If you're wanting to explore NSFW themes, keep in mind it will be posted publicly if I respond (ie no dms atm and no anon asks).

Footnote

*If we consider divinity as (to put it reductively) the phenominological interaction with a concept (ie the important part of spirituality being the experience, not what lies on the other side of said experience; as Nietzsche put it, "The question of religion is not truth, but does it inspire?", or Joseph Campbell's notion that religion is the "window we draw around Nothing" so we know where to look) we can therefore put this in a modal realist context, ie there is no canon beyond the 'magic circle', as Huizinga might put it, of the activity - although challenging this could be interesting.

[foxounderscorecube]

The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, From the Ice Age to the Present - Chris Gosden

4¼ ⭐

There was so much to take in with this book, and I thought it was great!!

The bulk of this book is in regards to ancient history: the author's field is archaeology, so that comes as no surprise. The scope that it covers is huge, though, and Gosden approaches the topic as a whole as meticulously as possible, despite the book not being terribly long.

The thesis of the book is essentially that science, magic, and religion all act in relation to each other, which makes sense, given that they're essentially different ways people approach and relate to the world philosophically speaking. Although, being based on archaeological evidence, a lot of information is unfortunately left to speculation, the known context is pieced together for the reader as much as you could really ask for and it does make for a really fascinating look at cultures from periods of time that are just unfathomable to us now.

It is very dense, despite the writing itself being perfectly approachable - there's just a lot to take in with it. It probably won't be for everyone in that sense. But it really is amazing to read about some of the stuff that has been found from previous civilisations, and to see the similarities and differences between people's relationships with the world across cultures.

[immaterialtraces]

A. They/them. Knowledge seeker.

A multi-disciplinary wandering concerning the nature of knowledge, the self, spirituality, ritual, embodiment, sensory experience, the occult, death, material culture, place, memory, and storytelling.

Research, philosophy, experimental archaeology, occultism, craft, art, storytelling, and whatever else catches my interest along the way.

Not inherently NSFW but not guaranteed to be friendly to minors.

Credo

✒

Current obsessions: ritual, sacrifice, hauntings, ghost stories, grief

Currently reading: Horror and the Holy, Kirk J. Schneider; The History of Magic, Chris Gosden

Ongoing Projects: TBA

Find me elsewhere: Material Traces (art-focused sibling blog)

[meanderingandrambling]

Speaking personally I regard my Judaism as an ethnic identifier and my polytheism as (mostly) spiritual one. Regardless of my beliefs I still have the cultural, familial, and emotional background of a Jew.

That said as noted above (and in Chris Gosden's Magic: A History, it is likely that we weren't monotheistic until post-Babylon.

Im confused - I thought Judaism is monotheistic. How can someone be Jewish and a polytheist? Does it depend on if you consider ancient vs modern practice? When I try to research all the articles contradict with some saying it's misunderstood as being monotheistic.

It is monotheistic, but people can interpret that in different ways.

Worshipping other deities is a big no-no, but some people may still recognize other people's deities as existing/valid in some form or another. Judaism also initially developed out of Caananite religion which is polytheistic, and there are still a few remnants of that history in places, but nowadays those are typically considered different forms/faces of HaShem at best, rather than a totally separate deity.

[akiraofthefour]

The magic of the past is reworked for each age, and dies only when it has no present use.

Chris Gosden, Magic