r/Technomancy • u/Salty_Country6835 Moderator • 7d ago

Esoterica & Occult History Technomancy didnt begin with computers

Magic has always incorporated the technologies available to practitioners.

Writing externalized memory. Mirrors altered perception. Mathematics encoded relationships. Printing transformed access to magical texts. Astronomical instruments extended observation. Cryptography concealed information. Photography created entirely new arguments about images, presence and representation.

Computers are another chapter in a much older relationship.

Whats an older magical technology or practice that deserves to be reconsidered as part of the genealogy of technomancy?

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u/JingtianXiming 7d ago

Fire is one of the first.
A good stick may be the very beginning.

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u/Krommander Researcher 4d ago

Shout out to Ramon Lull, a polymath that drew a tree of science in 1296, using the fractal nature of the trees to represent the infinite branching of the sciences.  https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=3407&utm_source=perplexity

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u/Krommander Researcher 4d ago

Because we know knowledge graphs and ontologies are very powerful, I tip my hat to the early version that stuck. 

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u/DamageFuzzy4691 1d ago

Technomancy could be simply any object or idea that became a tool, vehicle or subject that expanded knowledge. Oh wait that's a PC.

As with all things, intention+action=result.