Information rises to the surface … precise biochemical pathways become kinetically stimulated.  Movement spreads chemical information through & among dancers, feeding into a higher level of species-evolution.

In the course of a research expedition to Sicily in 1638, the alchemist Athanasius Kircher had himself lowered into the crater of Vesuvius. There, perched on a rock in the…

At trance parties partygoers are undertaking journeys into the web of interconnected living reality. In a psychedelic fusion between dance and idea they are experiencing an ancient shamanic…

Hyperstition describes the effects and mechanisms of apocalyptic ‘phase out’ or ‘meltdown’ culture. As a neologism it combines the words ‘hyper’ and ‘superstition’ to describe, in the words of the…

Machinic phylumis a term coined by French post-structuralist philosophers Deleuze and Guattari to describe the universe’s reservoir of self-organising principles. They reason that whenever a crystal grows, a foetus begins…

Smoking, taking drugs, Sado-masochistic activities, and wild thumping music are all means of building a Body Without Organs (BoW).  Quite simply, these activities (and others like them) signify attempts to…

“We have extended our central nervous system itself in a global embrace, abolishing space and time as far as our planet is concerned,” wrote Marshall McCluhan…

Contemporary technologically advanced societies appear to have actualized magic. Humans living in these cultures harness energies that were once the providence of sorcerers: they can fly, communicate instantly, cure ailments…

The scientists working on the world’s first nuclear weapon are said to have betted on the apocalypse. Half of them believed that their bomb, when detonated,…

When NASA’s first images of the “big blue marble,” planet Earth, hit television in 1966, the philosopher Martin Heidegger was overcome by a wave of existential nausea. “The uprooting of…