Carl Abrahamsson's Blog, page 4

A great new Eric Kroll book

Just posted a review of Timeless’ exquisite new book by Eric Kroll: HARDCORE…

https://anartapart.substack.com/p/how-hard-is-hardcore

”Throughout his career, Eric Kroll has published numerous books and contributed significantly to discussions about sexuality in contemporary art. His photographs usually push conventional boundaries while maintaining a respect for his subjects, creating a body of work that is both transgressive and deeply humanistic in its exploration of alternative expressions of intimacy and identity. But these early images of an entire display/world of sordid business and emotions are, for me, his real forte. You can literally feel his own compulsion to pruriently investigate the world behind the crackling neon, colored light bulbs, and sticky floors.”

#erickroll #paulschrader #timelesseditions #timeless #anartapart #carlabrahamsson

Are you scared yet?

Do you have your ticket for my new class The Legacy of Horror?

https://www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/p/the-legacy-of-horror-with-carl-abrahamsson

”To begin with horror, one must begin with fear. But to begin with fear is not to begin with hysteria, nor even with fright in the ordinary sense. It is to begin with a primal architecture of the human mind—something more ancient than reason, more foundational than belief. The child who fears the dark does not fear the absence of light; she fears the presence of something imagined within that darkness. The adult who recoils from a corpse does not fear the dead flesh; he fears the suggestion of mortality embodied in that stillness. Fear, in other words, is never merely reactive. It is imaginative.”

#morbidanatomy #thelegacyofhorror #occulture #carlabrahamsson

Full class available now

All sessions of my recent TOPY/ Magick/ Occulture class are now available to watch:

https://thefenriswolf.substack.com/p/the-topy-class

”My recent class about Thee Temple Ov Psychick Youth, “Psychosexual Reverberations,” is now available here at the Fenris Wolf Substack. All four sessions, including guest appearances by Matthew Levi Stevens, Tom Banger, and Paul Bee Hampshire, will give you a good introduction to this very special group and phenomenon in late 20th century occultism and occulture. These episodes reveal TOPY as more than just a magical order – it was an art collective, a psychological experiment, and a network for exploring hidden information. The organization attracted young people interested in transformation, using techniques like sigil magic, cut-up methods, and radical self-exploration.”

#theetempleovpsychickyouth #topy #genesisporridge #occulture #thefenriswolf #matthewlevistevens #tombanger #paulbeehampshire #carlabrahamsson

William Mortensen!

Just posted an introduction to master photographer William Mortensen and his dark, visionary world:

https://anartapart.substack.com/p/visionary-seduction

”Mortensen’s aesthetic philosophy emerged from a profound understanding of what we might call the “rhetoric of the image”—that photographs, far from being neutral documents, are elaborate texts encoded with cultural meanings, psychological projections, and ideological assumptions. His theatrical compositions, with their elaborate chiaroscuro effects and mythological subject matter, set designs and props, constituted a systematic critique of photography’s pretensions to objectivity. Where his contemporaries saw corruption of the medium’s essential nature, Mortensen perceived liberation from the tyranny of the literal.”

#williammortensen #americangrotesque #feralhouse #anartapart #carlabrahamsson

Speak of the Devil

Just posted my lecture about the classic occult novel The Devil’s Footprint:

https://thefenriswolf.substack.com/p/the-devils-footprint-lecture

”Beginning with environmental issues, Satan and his Team roam the planet setting up financing for their ambitious plans: using science to break down plastic trash in the oceans to create manure and other organic substances that will help decompose billions of human bodies placed in the deserts of Northern Africa, irrigated by appropriated and redirected oil pipes now carrying desalinated water. They also make sure the Amazon is immediately reforested. They also challenge tax-evading tech-bros to start recycling computer trash, and turn CEOs for genetic engineering companies into day-laboring farm hands, expose and extort the Vatican and its army of pedophiles, ditto with wife-beating and pecker-directed American televangelists, as well as the intelligence-challenged American president, and also Nicolo Macchiavelli as an inert institution of outdated thinking, etc etc. It basically never ends!”

#thedevilsfootprint #thefenriswolf #occulture #carlabrahamsson

Black Sun Rays

Just posted an appreciation of poet & publisher Harry Crosby:

https://anartapart.substack.com/p/solar-flair

”Such publishing was not a commercial venture, nor even a purely aesthetic one. It was a form of esotericism, a belief that certain books, if made with sufficient care, could become keys to other realms. The Black Sun Press stood against the ”massification” of literature, its books intended for the elect, the initiates, the seekers. In their pages, Crosby hoped to preserve, as in a reliquary, the possibility of transcendence.”

#harrycrosby #caressecrosby #blacksunpress #modernism #occulture #anartapart #carlabrahamsson

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Do you have your ticket for my new class The Legacy of Horror?

https://www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/p/the-legacy-of-horror-with-carl-abrahamsson

”To begin with horror, one must begin with fear. But to begin with fear is not to begin with hysteria, nor even with fright in the ordinary sense. It is to begin with a primal architecture of the human mind—something more ancient than reason, more foundational than belief. The child who fears the dark does not fear the absence of light; she fears the presence of something imagined within that darkness. The adult who recoils from a corpse does not fear the dead flesh; he fears the suggestion of mortality embodied in that stillness. Fear, in other words, is never merely reactive. It is imaginative.”

#morbidanatomy #thelegacyofhorror #occulture #carlabrahamsson

TOPY session 1 of 4

The first session of my recent TOPY Class is now available at The Fenris Wolf Substack, with esteemed guest Matthew Levi Stevens:

https://thefenriswolf.substack.com/p/topy-class-1-of-4

“The conversation is a detailed exploration of the Temple of Psychic Youth (TOPY), a magical network and cultural movement from the 1980s. Carl Abrahamsson and Matthew Levi Stevens share personal experiences of their involvement with TOPY, discussing its origins with Genesis P-Orridge and Psychic TV. They describe it as an experimental magical order that used sigil magic, networked through physical mail, and sought to merge art, occultism, and cultural creation. The group emphasized individual creativity, information sharing, and challenging societal norms. TOPY was characterized by its DIY ethos, interdisciplinary approach, and goal of personal transformation through magical and artistic practices, ultimately influencing numerous artists and thinkers.”

#theetempleovpsychickyouth #topy #matthewlevistevens #genesisporridge #occulture #thefenriswolf #carlabrahamsson

Libido Surfing

In today’s MAGIC MONDAY at our Patreon, I write about the phenomenon of Libido Surfing:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/magic-monday-135049343

”Why is this relevant? Because this extremely simple technique/method builds up a more controlled and powerful transcendental experience which will actually help you with better focus in approaching the crucial moment of ecstatic truth. So essentially it’s a matter of strength and volume attainable by magical method: a quantitative approach to quality, if you will. It’s a fun, healthy and highly magical way of libido-surfing your way to the stars!”

#occulture #magicmonday #vanessasinclair #carlabrahamsson

A Joseph B Intro

Just posted a small introduction to the work of amazing artist Joseph Beuys:

https://anartapart.substack.com/p/art-for-all

”Beuys’s concept of “social sculpture” represents perhaps his most radical contribution to both art and political thought. Unlike traditional sculpture, which shapes inert materials into static forms, social sculpture proposed that society itself could be molded and transformed through conscious human activity. “Every human being is an artist,” Beuys famously declared, not because everyone should make conventional artworks, but because everyone possesses the capacity to reshape social relations and thereby participate in the ongoing creation of culture.”

#josephbeuys #anartapart #carlabrahamsson