In the Warp and in the World: Warhammer 40,000 as Occultural Transmission
Warhammer 40,000 was not built in a cultural vacuum. Games Workshop emerged in late-1970s Britain, a milieu shaped by occult revival, chaos magick aesthetics, and the Law/Chaos cosmology of Michael Moorcock’s fiction, and the fingerprints are everywhere: the Warp as a metaphysical plane mapping onto esoteric conceptions of the astral or the collective unconscious, the …
