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Where neomythism departs from the chaos-magic frame is on the question of agency. The chaos-magic position is broadly voluntarist (choose a paradigm, run it as long as it serves you, then it goes back on the shelf). In clinic and studio, I do not see that as the whole story... I see practitioners who are not choosing the myths they end up serving. The myths find them. What the practitioner chooses is whether to attend to the finding and take responsibility for what it opens. The Orthodox vocabulary of obedience fits this better. Paradigm shift does not. The honest answer is that the practice is both. You are doing chaos magic in the technical sense. In the older theological sense, something is being done to you.
Neomythism names this condition within planetary computation, where symbolic literacy becomes less a stylistic skill than a mode of survival, and computation itself can no longer be treated only as infrastructure or instrument but as a new engine of myth-making, a machinic field through which subjects, images, worlds, and obligations begin to form each other.
Its wager is that to work mythically now is to expand the jurisdiction of the possible. To make futures available that cannot be derived from the present's exhausted grammars of extraction, prediction, control. Myth, here, is not an escape from reality but one of the means by which reality is enlarged, a discipline for making futures livable before the present has authorized them.
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