[Jonathan Allen], Saturday, February 24th, 2007, 16:00 - 16:30
»Once we fully recognise secular magic's role as a cultural agent, our sensitivity to the play of puzzlement, fictiveness, and contingency in modernity will be heightened.« Simon During, Modern Enchantments (Harvard 2002)

"Once we fully recognise secular magic's role as a cultural agent, our sensitivity to the play of puzzlement, fictiveness, and contingency 
in modernity will be heightened.' Simon During, Modern Enchantments (Harvard 2002)

"The purpose of this paper is to instruct the reader so he may learn to perform a variety of acts secretly and undetectably. In short, here are instructions for deception". Some Operational Uses for the Art of Deception,  Commissioned for MKULTRA (CIA) from magician John Mulholland in 1954.