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…

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…

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…

“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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…