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The METACOGSEC Library. ☿

The METACOGSEC Library is a working archive for the five literacies that meet in this project: chaos magick, witchcraft, immanentist philosophy, cybernetics, and media studies. It gathers books and practices that help explain how cognition is composed, steered, loosened, protected, and rebuilt under pressure. The shelves are not a canon so much as a set of working instruments: texts for understanding gnosis and ordeal, ritual container and elemental craft, assemblage and transduction, feedback and autopoiesis, platform control and media reality. Each entry is treated operationally: what does this let you perceive, refuse, compose, or repair? The archive is partial, alive, and being written.

Reading paths

All* Chaos Magick* Witchcraft* Immanence * Cybernetics* Media Studies* Altered States* Collective Sensemaking

Chaos Magick

Operational belief, gnosis, sigil work, paradigm-shifting, and the techniques by which conviction becomes a tool rather than a prison.

Start here The compact root text for chaos-magick practice.

Technique Probability, ritual engineering, and sorcery as applied model.

Cybernetic bridge Advanced chaos methods with technological metaphorics.

Pattern Meaning-making, model drift, and useful paranoia.

Cosmology Eightfold magical physics and late Carroll system-building.

System Esotericon and Portals material for constructed magical worlds.

Late work Metaphysics, magical physics, and constructed esoteric systems.

Context Retrospective statements on practice, theory, and chaos magic.

Manual Practical chaos methods with scene-level clarity.

Practice Ritual, group work, and post-dogmatic magical method.

Language Semiotics, culture, and magic after stable metaphysics.

Image work Vision, trance, drawing, and symbolic access.

Witchcraft

Ritual container, seasonal intelligence, circle, grounding, elemental work, and solitary practice as a technology of safety.

Lineage Modern witchcraft with practical ritual grammar.

History A practitioner account of Wicca’s modern emergence.

Solitary The accessible base text for self-directed practice.

Elements Natural magic techniques across the four surfaces.

Body Energy work as attention, perception, and charge discipline.

Threshold Solitary craft, boundary practice, and local relation.

Elements Elemental operators and ritualised force-mapping.

Origins Source currents, mythic inheritances, and craft genealogy.

Collective Ritual, politics, and group atmosphere.

Map American pagan scenes, lineages, and social forms.

Immanence

Assemblages, planes, affects, becoming, ontology, and the philosophical vocabulary for reality under its intensive aspect.

Ground Immanence, affect, power, and adequate ideas.

Assemblage Rhizomes, strata, machines, becoming, and capture.

Depth Difference, repetition, intensity, and individuation.

Concepts Planes, concepts, affects, percepts, and creation.

Plane Late short texts on life, immanence, and event.

Transduction Individuation, metastability, and structure propagating through a field.

Use A practitioner’s Spinoza for ethics as capacity.

Affect Movement, sensation, and virtual force in experience.

Relation Short-form thought on affect, politics, and event.

Experience Activation, appearance, and the politics of perception.

Spinoza Expression, substance, and modes as practical ontology.

Cybernetics

Feedback, control, autopoiesis, system boundaries, second-order observation, and the loops that govern without needing a governor.

Anchor Information, embodiment, cybernetics, and posthuman subjectivity.

Origin Control and communication in animal and machine.

Ethics Automation, information, and human consequences.

System Variety, regulation, black boxes, and control.

Mind Feedback across organism, culture, and environment.

Pattern The pattern that connects and recursive sensemaking.

Boundary Living systems, autonomy, and self-production.

Organisation Viable systems and institutional nervous systems.

Governance Control, autonomy, and democratic system design.

Practice Cybernetics as performance, experiment, and adaptation.

Media Studies

Platforms, interfaces, protocol, attention, spectacle, simulation, and the infrastructures that compose social reality at scale.

Medium Media as extensions that reorganise sense ratios.

Form A field guide to media environments as felt experience.

Spectacle Social relation mediated by images and separation.

Reality Simulation, signs, and the collapse of referential ground.

Network Control after decentralisation and distributed governance.

Interface Where control becomes experience and action.

Infrastructure Information processing as the answer to social speed.

Software Code, visibility, habit, and programmed worlds.

Planetary Computation as accidental megastructure.

Apparatus Technical media as conditions for discourse.