The Witching Other Explorations & Meditations on the Existential Witch by Hamilton-Giles, Peter - 2017

Atramentous Press, 2017. First Edition limited to 891 edition standard hardcover. A standard hardcover edition in green cloth with green foil-pressed dust jacket, limited to 891 signed and hand-numbered copies, 160 pages. Napura endpapers with green bookmark ribbon, gilt lettering. new/new. signed by author on title page, "To propose there is something 'other' to the witch might seem counter-intuitive, especially so since conjugating the witch into witching suggests particular agentive actions and decisions have already been made about the topic. One where the action of witching is then further hyphenated with the other must then result in increasing this level of obfuscation to new heights. Yet in Peter Hamilton-Giles' most explorative book to date he suggests by explicating the Witching-Other a wholly new and more profound way for understanding the witch is revealed, one which opens up the possibility for establishing an altogether more intimate and innovative relationship. This has the potential to liberate the witch icon from the shackles of history and practitioner narratives, and because of this Hamilton-Giles has preferred to concentrate on metaphysical absences than physical presences. Why this is an important re-directive proposition is that it allows individuals to move towards creating an identity which does not necessarily rely on historical location or accounts alone, but rather looks to the person's ability to unfix or unsettle the taken for granted so as to discover progressive ways for developing a new rationale about the witch.