This self-published essay explores the phenomenon of “witchcraft as self-care” which — popularised in the world of self-help books and social media — is often connected to the further-reaching market of spiritual commodities. It is argued that the project of “witchcraft as self-care” is a result of greater neoliberal logic which urges to privatise feelings of suffering in order to dismantle networks of care.
Transgressing such understanding of magic the book proposes how magic could be understood as a caring and collective method. It creates an archive of examples of magical practices which provide communal healing, restore caring infrastructures and help to redistribute the knowledge of magic as a tool of resistance.
