This Nick Carr post is closely related to two essays of mine (one of which he quotes): “Something Happened By Us” and “Some Enchanted Evening.” As I write in the first essay, “Any freedom from what torments us begins with a proper demonology. Later we may proceed to exorcism.”
My massive essay on Thomas Pynchon covers the same territory, as it should, since Pynchon is our greatest demonologist.