The following books are suggested for further reading. The titles listed are a suggestion for where to begin studying and is by no means exhaustive of any genre. The following links will take you to Amazon where you can purchase the book (and support this site!). A good place to search for rare and out of print books is www.bookfinder.com, which is a meta-search engine for locating the lowest price for a rare book. The Library of Congress, at www.loc.gov, will assist you in locating what library near you has a book you're looking to borrow.
SELECTED READING LIST
Bruno, G. (1991). On the Composition of Images, Signs & Ideas. (trans.) Doria, C., New York: Willis, Locker and Owens.
Bruno. G. (1998). Cause, Principle and Unity - And Essays on Magic. (trans.) Blackwell, R., New York: Cambridge University Press.
Carruthers, M. (2000). The Craft of Thought - Meditation, Rhetoric, and the Making of Images, 400 - 1200. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Cohn, N. (1957). The Pursuit of the Millennium - Revolutionary Millenarians and the Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages. New York: Oxford University Press.
Couliano, I. (1987). Eros and Magic in the Renaissance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Crowley, A. (1991). Magick in Theory and Practice. New Jersey: Castle Books.
Cunningham, C. (1999). Religion and Magic - Approaches & Theories. New York: New York University Press.
Davis, E. (1998). Techgnosis - Myth, Magic & Mysticism in the Age of Information. New York: Three Rivers Press.
DeLuca, K. (1999). Image Politics - The New Rhetoric of Environmental Activism. New York: Guilford Press.
Eliade, M. (1976). Occultism, Witchcraft, and Cultural Fashions. Chicago: U. of Chicago Press.
Eliade, M. (1991). Images and Symbols - Studies in Religious Symbolism. New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
Gossage, H. (1995). The Book of Gossage. Chicago: The Copy Workshop.
Graf, F. (1997). Magic in the Ancient World, (trans.) Philip, F., Cambridge: Harvard U. Press.
Horrocks, C., Jevtic, Z. (1999). Introducing Baudrillard. Cambridge: Icon Books.
Jhally, S. (1990). The Codes of Advertising - Fetishism and the Political Economy of Meaning in the Consumer Society. New York: Routledge.
Kaiguo, C., Shunchao, Z. (1998). Opening the Dragon Gate - The Making of a Modern Taoist Wizard. Boston: Charles E. Tuttle.
Kapferer, B. (1997). The Feast of the Sorcerer - Practices of Consciousness and Power. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Messaris, P. (1997). Visual Persuasion - The Role of Images in Advertising. London: Sage Publications.
Nathanson, P. (1991). Over the Rainbow - The Wizard of Oz as a Secular Myth of America. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Regardie, I. (1969). The Tree of Life - A Study in Magic. New York: Samuel Weiser, Inc.
Rossi, P. (2000). Logic and the Art of Memory - The Quest for a Universal Language, (trans.) Clucas, S., Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Stephens, M. (1998). The Rise of the Image, The Fall of the Word. New York: Oxford U. Press.
Twitchell, J. (1996). ADCULT USA - The Triumph of Advertising in American Culture. New York: Columbia University Press.
Walker, D. (1958). Spiritual And Demonic Magic From Ficino to Campanella. London: The Warburg Institute.
Williams, R. (1998). The Wizard of Ads. Austin: Bard Press.
The Book of Green Shadows
The Book of Green Shadows is a 48 page collection of essays by author James John Bell on the tools, techniques and forces that shift and alter perceptions in our world. It is a primer on magic, postmodernism, and mass manipulation, while also offering a look at the legacies and prophecies of world war, globalization and technology. Some of these articles have been previously published in the Earth First! Journal, others were taken from lectures given to activists developing communications strategies for environmental campaigns. *Now available for purchase through this website. More details here.....*
EXPANDED READING LIST
MEDIA THEORY
Barry, A. (1997). Visual Intelligence - Perception, Image, and Manipulation in Visual Communication. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Blackmore, S. (1999). The Meme Machine. New York: Oxford University Press.
Brodie, R. (1996). Virus of the Mind - The New Science of the Meme. Seattle: Integral Press.
Debord, G. (1970). Society of the Spectacle. Black & Red.
Debray, R. (1997). Transmitting Culture. New York: Columbia University Press.
Downing, J. (2001). Radical Media - Rebellious Communications and Social Movements. London: Sage Publications.
Ellul, J. (1965). Propaganda - The Formation of Men's Attitudes. New York: Random House.
Ewen, S. (2001). Captains of Consciousness - Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture. New York: Basic Books.
Ewen, S., Ewen, E. (1997). Channels of Desire - Mass Images and the Shaping of American Consciousness. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Gordon, T., (1997). McLuhan for Beginners. New York: Writers and Readers Publishing.
Gossage, H. (1995). The Book of Gossage. Chicago: The Copy Workshop.
Hager, N., & Burton, B. (1999). Secrets and Lies - The Anatomy of an Anti-Environmental Campaign. New Zealand: Craig Potton Publishing.
Jhally, S. (1990). The Codes of Advertising - Fetishism and the Political Economy of Meaning in the Consumer Society. New York: Routledge.
Jhally, S., Kline, S., Leiss, W. (1997). Advertising - Persons, Products, and Images of Well-being - Social Communication in Advertising. New York: Routledge.
Lasn, K. (2000). Culture Jam - How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge - And Why We Must. New York: HarperCollins.
Levine, M. (1993). Guerrilla P.R. How You Can Wage an Effective Publicity Campaign… Without Going Broke. New York: HarperCollins.
Levinson, P. (1999). Digital McLuhan - A Guide to the Information Millennium. New York: Routledge.
Lynch, A. (1996). Thought Contagion - How Belief Spreads Through Society - The New Science of Memes. New York: Basic Books.
McLuhan, M. (1964). Understanding Media - The Extensions of Man. New York: The New American Library.
Mcluhan, E., Zingrone, F. (Ed.). (1995). Essential McLuhan. New York: Basic Books.
McLuhan, E. (1993). Electric Language - Understanding the Message. Toronto: Stoddart Publishing Co. Limited.
Messaris, P. (1997). Visual Persuasion - The Role of Images in Advertising. London: Sage Publications.
Ohmann, R. (Ed.). (1996). Making and Selling Culture. Hanover: University Press of New England.
Popkin, J. (Ed.). (1995). Media and Revolution. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
Rushkoff, D. (1996). Media Virus - Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture. New York: Ballantine Books.
Salzman, J. (1998). Making the News - A Guide for Nonprofits and Activists. Boulder: Westview Press.
Taylor, G. (1996). Cultural Selection. Why Some Achievements Survive the Test of Time - And Others Don't. New York: Basic Books.
Twitchell, J. (1996). ADCULT USA - The Triumph of Advertising in American Culture. New York: Columbia University Press.
Wark, M. (1994). Virtual Geography - Living with Global Media Events. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Williams, R. (1998). The Wizard of Ads. Austin: Bard Press.
Williams, R. (1999). Secret Formulas of the Wizard of Ads. Austin: Bard Press.
Williamson, J. (1978). Decoding Advertisements - Ideology and Meaning in Advertising. Great Britain: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd.
Virilio, P. (2000). Strategy of Deception. New York: Verso.
MOVEMENT THEORY
Brantlinger, P. (1983). Bread & Circuses - Theories of Mass Culture as Social Decay. New York: Cornell University Press.
Dale, S. (1996). McLuhan's Children: The Greenpeace Message and the Media. Toronto: Between the Lines.
DeLuca, K. (1999). Image Politics - The New Rhetoric of Environmental Activism. New York: Guilford Press.
Foreman, D. (1991). Confessions of an Eco-Warrior. New York: Harmony Books.
Giugni, M, McAdam, D., Tilly, C. (Ed.). (1999) How Social Movements Matter. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Goldberg, R. (1991). Grassroots Resistance - Social Movements in Twentieth Century America. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing.
Greene, T. (1990). Comparative Revolutionary Movements - Search for Theory and Justice. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
Hunter, R. (1979). Warriors of the Rainbow - A Chronicle of the Greenpeace Movement. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
Klandermans, B. (1997). The Social Psychology of Protest. Cambridge: Blackwell Publishers.
Klandermans, B., Johnston, H. (1995). Social Movements and Culture - Protest & Contention. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Le Bon, G. (1960). The Crowd. New York: The Viking Press.
Lee, M. (1995). Earth First! Environmental Apocalypse. New York: Syracuse University Press.
Libby, R. (1998). Eco Wars - Political Campaigns and Social Movements. New York: Columbia University Press.
Marcos, Subcomandante Insurgente (2001). Our Word is Our Weapon - Selected Writings Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos. New York: Seven Stories Press.
Morris, D. (1995). Earth Warrior - Overboard with Paul Watson and the Sea Shephard Conservation Society. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing.
Robbins, T., Palmer, S. (Eds.). (1997). Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem - Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements. New York: Routledge.
Sale, K. (1995). Rebels Against the Future - The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution - Lessons for the Computer Age. New York: Addison-Wesley Publishing.
Scarce, R. (1990). Eco-Warriors - Understanding the Radical Environmental Movement. Chicago: Noble Press, Inc.
Shabecoff, P. (1993). A Fierce Green Fire - The American Environmental Movement. New York: Hill and Wang.
Thomas, J. (2000). The Battle in Seattle - The Story Behind and Beyond the WTO Demonstrations. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing.
Virilio, P. (1990). Popular Defense & Ecological Struggles. New York: Seniotext(e).
ENVIRONMENT
Aveni, A. (1992). Conversing with the Planets - How Science and Myth Invented the Cosmos. New York: Times Books.
Benford, G. (2000). Deep Time - How Humanity Communicates Across Millenia. New York: Avon Books.
Baudrillard, J. (1991). America. New York: Verso.
Baudrillard, J. (1999). Simulacra and Simulation. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press.
Brand, S. (1999). The Clock of the Long Now - Time and Responsibility - The Ideas Behind the World's Slowest Computer. New York: Basic Books.
Brook, J., Boal, I. (Eds.). (1995). Resisting the Virtual Life - The Culture and Politics of Information. San Francisco: City Lights Bookstore.
Carse, J. (1986). Finite and Infinite Games - A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility. New York: Ballantine Books.
Cronon, W., (Ed.). (1995). Uncommon Ground - Toward Reinventing Nature. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.
Denning, P. (Ed.). (2002). The Invisible Future - The Seamless Integration of Technology into Everyday Life. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Eco, U. (1986). Travels in Hyper Reality. Orlando: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Frenkel, J. (2001). True Names and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier - Vernor Vinge. New York: Tom Doherty Associates Book.
Fry, T. (Ed.). (1993). R U A TV? Heidegger and the Televisual. Sydney: Power Publications.
Hersey, G. (1989). The Lost Meaning of Classical Architecture. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Hookway, B. (1999). Pandemonium - The Rise of Predatory Locales in the Postwar World. New York: Princeton Architectural Press.
Horrocks, C., Jevtic, Z. (1999). Introducing Baudrillard. Cambridge: Icon Books.
Kelly, K. (1994). Out of Control - The Rise of Neo-Biological Civilization. New York: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.
Kerckhove, D. (1995). The Skin of Culture - Investigating the New Electronic Reality. Toronto: Somerville House Publishing.
Mander, J. (1992). In The Absence of the Sacred - The Failure of Technology & The Survival of the Indian Nations. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.
Nathanson, P. (1991). Over the Rainbow - The Wizard of Oz as a Secular Myth of America. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Nelkin, D., Lindee, M. (1995) The DNA Mystique - The Gene as a Cultural Icon. New York: W. H. Freeman and Company.
Negroponte, N. (1995). Being Digital. New York: Alfred Knopf.
Powell, J. (1998). Postmodernism for Beginners. New York: Writers and Readers.
Poster, M. (Ed.). (1988). Jean Baudrillard - Selected Writings. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Robertson, G. (Eds.). (1996). Future Natural - Nature, Science, Culture. New York: Routledge.
Steinberg, S., Kincheloe, J. (Eds.). (1998). Kinder-Culture - The Corporate Construction of Childhood. Boulder: Westview Press.
Taylor, B. (Ed.). (1995). Ecological Resistance Movements - The Global Emergence of Radical and Popular Environmentalism. New York: State University of New York Press.
Thompson, W. (1991). The American Replacement of Nature. New York: Doubleday.
Trask, R., Mayblin, B. (Eds.). (2000). Introducing Linguistics. Cambridge: Icon Books.
Vinge, V. (1987). True Names and Other Dangers. New York: Baen Books.
MYTHOLOGICAL & MAGICAL STUDIES
Burtt, E. (1932). The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co.
Bruno, G. (1991). On the Composition of Images, Signs & Ideas. (trans.) Doria, C., New York: Willis, Locker and Owens.
Bruno. G. (1998). Cause, Principle and Unity - And Essays on Magic. (trans.) Blackwell, R., New York: Cambridge University Press.
Campbell, J. (1970). Myths, Dreams and Religion. New York: E. P. Dutton.
Carroll, P. (1997). Psyber Magick - Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick. Las Vegas: New Falcon Publications.
Carruthers, M. (2000). The Craft of Thought - Meditation, Rhetoric, and the Making of Images, 400 - 1200. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Cashdan, S. (1999). The Witch Must Die - How Fairy Tales Shape Our Lives. New York: Basic Books.
Cohn, N. (1957). The Pursuit of the Millennium - Revolutionary Millenarians and the Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages. New York: Oxford University Press.
Couliano, I. (1992). The Tree of Gnosis - Gnostic Mythology from Early Christianity to Modern Nihilism, (trans.) Wiesner, H., San Francisco, HarperCollins.
Couliano, I. (1987). Eros and Magic in the Renaissance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Crowley, A. (1991). Magick in Theory and Practice. New Jersey: Castle Books.
Cunningham, C. (1999). Religion and Magic - Approaches & Theories. New York: New York University Press.
Davis, E. (1998). Techgnosis - Myth, Magic & Mysticism in the Age of Information. New York: Three Rivers Press.
Dundes, A. (1965). The Study of Folklore. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
Eliade, M. (1978). The Forge and the Crucible - The Origins and Structures of Alchemy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Eliade, M. (1976). Occultism, Witchcraft, and Cultural Fashions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Eliade, M. (1991). Images and Symbols - Studies in Religious Symbolism. New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
Fields, R. (1991). The Code of the Warrior in History, Myth and Everyday Life. New York: HarperCollins.
Flowers, S. (Ed.). (1995). Hermetic Magic - The Postmodern Magical Papyrus of Abaris. Maine: Samuel Weiser, Inc.
Fromm, E. (1951). The Forgotten Language - An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales and Myths. New York: Grove Press.
Gonzalez-Wippler, M. (2000). The Complete Book of Spells, Ceremonies & Magic. St. Paul: Llewellyn Publications.
Graf, F. (1997). Magic in the Ancient World, (trans.) Philip, F., Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Hine, P. (1995). Condensed Chaos - An Introduction to Chaos Magic. Las Vegas: New Falcon Publications.
Jung, C. (1964). Man and His Symbols. New York: Dell Publishing.
Kaiguo, C., Shunchao, Z. (1998). Opening the Dragon Gate - The Making of a Modern Taoist Wizard. Boston: Charles E. Tuttle.
Kapferer, B. (1997). The Feast of the Sorcerer - Practices of Consciousness and Power. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Levi-Strauss, C. (1978). Myth and Meaning - Cracking the Code of Culture. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Regardie, I. (1969). The Tree of Life - A Study in Magic. New York: Samuel Weiser, Inc.
Rossi, P. (2000). Logic and the Art of Memory - The Quest for a Universal Language, (trans.) Clucas, S., Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Shermer, M. (1997). Why People Believe Weird Things - Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time. New York: W. H. Freeman & Company.
Starhawk (1999). The Spiral Dance - A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess. San Francisco: HarperCollins.
Stephens, M. (1998). The Rise of the Image, The Fall of the Word. New York: Oxford University Press.
Walker, D. (1958). Spiritual And Demonic Magic From Ficino to Campanella. London: The Warburg Institute.
Weinstein, M. (1998). Earth Magic - A Dianic Book of Shadows - A Guide for Witches. New York: Earth Magic Productions.
Wiseman, B., Groves, J. (1997). Introducing Levi-Strauss and Structural Anthropology. Cambridge: Icon Books.
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