“This post brings together a number of areas of interest for me, including the increasing interest in fantasy with the counterculture of the 1960s, the connection between fantasy and Neo-Paganism, and the expression of elements related to Paganism and esotericism in film. We will explore issues related to these facets courtesy of an interview with Peg Aloi. Peg is a Pagan and a scholar who works in both the academic and popular arenas. She is a writer on Paganism and the media for Witchvox, is the co-editor with Hanna E. Johnston of the new volume ‘The New Generation Witches:Teenage Witchcraft in Contemporary Culture (Ashgate, 2007)’, and is currently co-authoring a book with Hannah titled The Celluloid Bough: Cinema in the Wake of the Occult Revival.”

(via TheoFantastique)

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Chris Arkenberg, aka LVX23, appears on this week’s R.U. Sirius Show!

Update: didn’t realize that Jason was in the interview too, by phone from New York (thanks Brenden).

MP3 on The R.U. Sirius Show.

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Breaking occulterati gossip, from the Disinfo newsletter:

At the end of last week, Disinfo Books editor Jason Louv decided to leave us to focus on some new Ultraculture projects, which will include animation and a new collaborative book. Many of you know Louv as the editor of Generation Hex, the influential anthology on next generation magicians. It’s a book that TDC co-founder and ‘wicked warlock’ Richard Metzger raved about for months as one of the most alchemical we’ve released. I agree and want to thank Louv for bringing some inspiration and renewal to the TDC team at an important transition. I’ve posted some thoughts on Louv’s Disinfo stint here, also check out his Viking Youth Power Hour podcast, and visit the Ultraculture site. Given Louv’s emphasis on real-world projects and physical manifestations of magick, we’ll be no doubt hearing from him soon.

Update: I e-mailed Jason, and he’s mum on the details of what’s he’s working on now. But I consulted my tarot deck, and it says that whatever Jason’s working on, lots and lots of crunk juice is involved. That is all.

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This week we talk to Jason Louv editor of “Generation Hex” a new anthology from the Disinformation Company on magic and initiatory experiences. We talk to Jason about his book, his new website Ultraculture, what happened in the ’90’s, what didn’t happen in the 90’s, how magic and the development of magic has changed in a post-9/11 world, and where we might be carried by the currents of the new magical renaissance taking seed world wide. Oh yes, we also discuss the magical efficacy of Aquaman.

51 minute MP3 38 megs.

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Jason Louv et al. speaking at Vox Pop on October 8.

MP3.

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Jason Louv’s much anticipated (and hyped) anthology Generation Hex: New Voices from Outside Reality is available for pre-order on Amazon.com.

Update: Generation Hex web site is live.

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Borges’s story about a map as big as the territory it represented compared to Google Maps:

It is in these days that we are witnessing the collective creation of a map even more exact that Borges could imagine; one that describes the limits, the roads, and the shores of every territory on the planet. At the same time it uncovers another ambition more perfect and occult: that every shepherd or “emperor” can edit their own map as they wish, they can forge their own version of the world. In that map we will have a blueprint of human life: Things moving, crimes, thefts, migrating animals, childhood memories, imaginary battles between good and evil, hookers and ogres, real-time weather. In all, anything that can be pointed down to the soil and be named. (Mira!)

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