How to be a Rebel in a Digital Age w/ Mitch Horowitz

The Digital Void Podcast

English - June 13, 2023 11:00 - 20 minutes - 28 MB
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What does it mean to be a rebel in a digital age? PEN Award-winning author Mitch Horowitz provides us with three strategies to move forward. Recorded live at Digital Void's Meme in the Moment Festival in New York City on Wednesday, October 26, 2022.

🎟️ You can see Mitch and an incredible lineup of speakers including Shannon Liao, Allegra Frank, Douglas Rushkoff, Ena Da, and Ryan Broderick at Memes, Myths, and Magic on Wednesday, June 21, 2023 at New York City's Caveat. Click here to purchase tickets and livestream!

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📰 You can read excerpts of Horowitz's talk, What Does iI Mean to Be a Rebel In a Coarse Era?, on Medium.

About Mitch Horowitz

Mitch Horowitz is a historian of alternative spirituality and one of today’s most literate voices of esoterica, mysticism, and the occult. Mitch illuminates outsider history, explains its relevance to contemporary life, and reveals the longstanding quest to bring empowerment and agency to the human condition. Mitch is a writer-in-residence at the New York Public Library and the PEN Award-winning author of books including Occult America; One Simple Idea; The Miracle Club; Daydream Believer; Uncertain Places; and the forthcoming Modern Occultism.

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