In Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology, Eric Drexler outlines what promises to be the technology of the 21st century. In a nutshell, Drexler describes how the genetic…

When NASA’s first images of the “big blue marble,” planet Earth, hit television in 1966, the philosopher Martin Heidegger was overcome by a wave of existential nausea. “The uprooting of…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Swarming insects are the defining symbols of our newly emergent global culture. Assailed by a raging sea of pictures, icons and branded coding, the humanity of the new millennium is…

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…