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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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Electronic music is a kind of rhythmic intelligence that escapes the boundaries of the
tonal. Operating as a kind of sonic life-form, electronica incorporates a host of
samples, wavelengths and…
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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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“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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November 2008's Mandala Project was a massive
success, with official numbers well exceeding the 2000 mark. On the main floor,
under specially commissioned Mandala-themed banners, guest-stars Logic Bomb and
Tranan…
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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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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…
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In the midst of incessant technological and social upheavals, ecological disasters, and capital excess a band of modern primitives are downloading designer wetware (another term for drugs) and cataleptically conspiring…
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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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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…