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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,…
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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…
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“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…
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Mandalas function by re-tuning perceptual phenomena. As cosmic tuning forks, they attune minds and hearts to the frequency of the infinite. As diagrams, they retune reality by acting as visual…
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Drugs shape the laws and write the very rules they break, they scramble all the codes and raise the stakes of desire and necessity, euphoria and pain, normality, perversion, truth…
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Welcome to the postmodern present where reality is remixed ‘live’ to CNN theme-muzak. In a world where the real is no longer hip enough, there can be no talk of…
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When the infamous radio production of War of the Worlds convinced thousands of credulous New Yorkers that the Martians had landed, it became obvious that the world was squarely in…
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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.
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During the last
one-millionth part of Earth’s history, the biosphere has undergone a dramatic
change. Since the evolution of agriculture 10,000 years ago, eco-systems have progressively
made way…
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Alongside the emergence of standardised tools and art, writing is one of the most important
cultural revolutions undergone by our species. Yet, the emergence of script
marked the end of…