The short version:
The Disruption Generator is finished!
There is a pre-order for a deluxe hardcover edition here!
There is a smaller, cheaper paperback version available here!
Now, on to the long version.
In the spirit of transparency, I have to admit that I’ve written and rewritten this post a few times. It’s difficult for me to find the voice for it because I am neither a salesman or a revelator. I’m a workman, a cartoonist. I enjoy nothing more than sitting down and letting a pen do what it wants to a piece of paper.
Part of me tried, without much luck, to find a more poetic way to describe what I’ve created but this thing is what I’ve described it as from the start: a simple tool. The thing I’m talking about is The Disruption Generator, my DIY divinitory machine. A cut-up bibliomantic oracle made from the random and unknown.
If you’re reading this than I assume that you’re familiar with it and the daily posts I’ve been releasing for the last six months. If you’re already lost I explain things in much further detail elsewhere.
For as much as I believe that mystery is essential for magick to work properly, I feel that this project deserves a little bit of a post mortem examination. A deep dive into what led me to create this thing and why I’ve made the choices I’ve made in the project itself. For the next six weeks The Disruption Generator: Disassembled will explore a few of the things I’ve found while thinking about what brought me here, to the place, right now.
COCOON
The structure in which metamorphosis occurs; the state of change before a new paradigm emerges
Cocoon, the last Disruption Generator component feels like the best finale I could have asked for. The daily release schedule was, at first, a creation of necessity more than anything else. It was a way to keep myself moving forward, creating. It then became a shelter, giving me the time I needed to feel out and explore what the Generator was telling me. Those six months became what I’m here to talk about today.
Today marks two things: the launch of a preorder for a deluxe hardcover edition of The Disruption Generator and the release of a smaller, cheaper paperback edition called The Portable Disruption Generator.
I’ve chosen to put out two different version of The Disruption Generator for one main reason: the expense of occult exploration. In my early days of reading about magick and the occult, I found that my biggest barrier to reading and discovering new ideas was the cost of the materials I needed to learn more. It felt like an unnecessary layer of elitism laid over nearly the entirety of occult and esoteric literature.
I want to remove that barrier for people interested in the Generator, hence the two distinct versions. Hopefully these can satisfy people of both camps; those who are looking for a truly unique artifact and those seeking a budget priced workbook for divination. The same content is available in both volumes.
Interiors of the hardcover and softcover editions for comparison
The hardcover edition of The Disruption Generator will be more of a ritual package than a single oracular volume. Alongside the signed and numbered book, you will receive a personalized Disruption Generator reading utilizing the cards used by fellow haunts Alexx and Keats here. The cover will also be personalized with a hand painted sigil and the slipcover doubles as an art print.
The pre-order will run from June 10th until July 15th. The final amount of the print run will be determined by how many are ordered. It will be limited to the amount ordered during that period, with a maximum print run of fifty.
This edition will NEVER be reprinted.
The paperback edition, known as The Portable Disruption Generator, will be a meat-and potatoes release. All the art and writing is exactly the same, just in a pocket sized package. This edition is already freely available on Amazon.
I plan to explore the roots and inspirations for the Disruption Generator here, every Monday, until the pre-order is finished.
Talk to you again soon.
HAUNT ON
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