The last 13,000 years of human history is a mere nanosecond on a geological timescale. In terms of human evolution, it represents a mere 1% of…

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.

At the dawn of the 21st century, we seem to be living in on a Euro-American planet. The phenomenal expansion of western civilisation from its spiritual heartland in western Europe…

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…

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…

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…

Apocalypse culture surpasses the usual sardonic postcards from the abyss such as Manson-style pop Satanism, kiddie porn, and iconic serial killers. The tipping of society's sacred cows is a time-honoured…

More than skin and bones, the body is a hotly contested item. Without it we wouldn’t exist, yet our efforts to transcend it, escape it and control it are as…

Trance parties, festivals, squat-parties and ‘alternative’ cultural events’ are highly contested spaces. Aside from the invariable troubles they pick up with authorities, they are often prone to internal conflicts over…

Whether natural or artificial, psychedelics can be strong and hard-hitting psychological tools provided they are used correctly. Psychedelics raise noise levels in the nervous system, and thereby in consciousness itself.…