Benjamin Breen

Editor in Chief, The Appendix

Benjamin Breen is a history postgraduate at the University of Texas at Austin and the Editor-In-Chief and co-founder of The Appendix. He blogs about early modern history at Res Obscura and lives in Philadelphia.

Written by Benjamin Breen

A long-haired man in brown robes standing beside a decorated vehicle by a beach, hands in prayer, with the ocean and blue sky in the background.

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History of technology

Into the mystic

From Stonehenge to Silicon Valley: how technology nurtured New Age ideas in a world supposedly stripped of its magic

Benjamin Breen

A painting depicting a man with tousled hair and an open mouth, appearing to shout or sing, holding a bottle in his hand.

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Consciousness and altered states

Under the influence

How did enlightenment thinkers distinguish between ‘drugs’ and ‘medicines’? And how should we?

Benjamin Breen