<a href="http://www.forteantimes.com/events/uncon2010/" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2115" style="vertical-align: top; border: 0; margin: 8px;" title="uncon_header" src="http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/uncon_header.jpg" alt="uncon_header" width="400" height="84" /></a>

I've joined the line up for this years's <a style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; color: #0066cc; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" href="http://www.forteantimes.com/events/uncon2010/" target="_blank"> Fortean Times Unconvention</a> with a talk entitled ‘Mirage Men: The Abuses of Enchantment’. It's a spinoff from <a href="http://miragemen.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">my book</a> and contains quite a lot of new material:

<em>Mark shows how military and intelligence operators have shaped and exploited beliefs in UFOs, ghosts, monsters, vampires, and elements from folklore and conspiracy theory to create an armoury of supernatural weapons of mass deception. The inspiration for these toys, tools and techniques has come from a range of sources including fiction, cinema, stage magic, advertising and occultism.</em>

I’m on at 12pm on Saturday and there are some <a href="http://www.forteantimes.com/events/uncon2010/3952/talks_and_speakers.html" target="_blank">fantastic speakers</a> over the weekend - see you here!