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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…
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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…