ERIK DAVIS

Erik Davis is a San Francisco-based author, journalist, and cultural critic. He has contributed to 21C,Wired, Lingua Franca, The Wire and The Nation, but is best known for his work at the Village Voice, where he has written about television, technology, music, philosophy, and the subcultural landscape. Davis also writes regularly for Gnosis, a magazine devoted to Western esoteric religious traditions. His essay "Techgnosis: Magic, Memory, and the Angels of Information" appeared in Mark Dery's Flame Wars, and he has lectured internationally on topics ranging from jungle music to techno-spirituality to millennialist subcultures. He is currently writing *Techgnosis*, a book investigating the occult, spiritual, and religious undercurrents of the "information age" (Harmony Books, Spring, 1998).

INTERVIEW

with Erik Davis
by Konrad Becker

Spiritual Telegraphs and the Technology of Communication:
Tuning into The Electromagnetic Imagination