Richard Metzger is Conjuring Magick for the AI Age: An Interview
Apr. 02, 2025.
13 mins. read.
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Richard Metzger (Disinformation) unveils Magick Show—Kenneth Anger’s last interview, Grant Morrison, and AI as the ‘21st-century Ouija board.’ Reality hacking meets tech sorcery. The future of occultism is now.
Late last summer, Richard Metzger launched a project called Magick Show on Kickstarter. In his own words, Magick Show is intended to be a “serious, in-depth exploration of magick–not pulling rabbits out of a hat, but the kind that can change reality itself.”
The project–executive produced by Metzger’s longtime friend media theorist Douglas Rushkoff--secured interviews with over 50 modern occultists, experts, authors, artists and witches in Los Angeles, New York and London. But then the company that had funded the shoot went under.
Metzger achieved his Kickstarter goal and Magick Show: A Masterclass in Modern Occultism was thus activated. Those interviewed include the late Kenneth Anger (in his final interview), Grant Morrison, Gary Lachman, Bri Luna the Hoodwitch, Mitch Horowitz, Maja D’Aoust, Luke Haines, Amanda Yates Garcia and Robert Shehu-Ansell. It’s presented like a big conversation, cutting from one speaker to the next over trippy visuals and music sourced from the London-based Library of the Occult record label.
Metzger is best known for Disinformation, his notorious UK TV show on Channel 4, which brought counterculture and high weirdness into British living rooms, and for the NYC-based website and publishing company of the same name. His follow-up project, the outsider arts blog Dangerous Minds (2009-2020) co-created with his wife Tara McGinley was a longtime part of the VICE media group. These days Metzger is returning to his Operation Mindfuck roots. Magick Show‘s first episode has just been released and he’s started giving monthly occult lectures online. Metzger also has a book in the works, which he told me is “the new Cosmic Trigger, but this time the synchronicities have a bigger budget, it’s sexier and there’s artificial intelligence.”
You can keep track of Metzger’s magical doings at MagickSchool.net (note the Crowleyan “K” in the URL.)I interviewed Metzger about Magick Show, Magick School, the current state of the world and his memoir-in-progress Higher Revolutionary Mutation.

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