Authority, information organization, and posthumanism in the rhetoric of chaos magic

This dissertation investigates authority, information organization, and posthumanism in the rhetoric of Chaos Magic. It finds that, despite Chaos Magic’s anti-authoritarian disposition, there is a complex acceptance of some aspects of authority and tradition within it, and that its use of authority to persuade may also sometimes depend on information organization and appeals to non-human persons. Chaos Magic, like magic generally, is a rhetorical activity.