The Banality of Psychedelics
The central truths revealed to me by psilocybin were all the things my mother tried to teach me.
My Name Is Jim
I have been drinking alcohol since I was 15.
A Funeral for Bruno Latour
What makes this so difficult is that time has a way of eroding the power of words.
Autocomplete
We all must adapt to a new textual culture made by GPT-3.
Hunting the White Goddess
Posted on November 18, 2022
Image: Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing, ca. 1786. William Blake.
It seems that neo-paganism is attractive in part because it offers an identity to those who have rejected postmodern, deracinated versions of Christianity.
Pretending to Destroy Art to Save the World
by
Chiraag Shah
Posted on November 9, 2022
Image: Just Stop Oil activists throw tomato soup at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, National Gallery, London, October 2022.
What we are seeing, then, is a fictional spectacle—a pseudo-iconoclastic event.