Psychedelic Teleology: Would Widespread Psychedelic Use Improve Society?

This is a modified excerpt from Sam Woolfe’s new book, Altered Perspectives: Critical Essays on Psychedelic Consciousness (2024, Iff Books). Continue reading →

From Plato to the Moving Image: Notes on Lynchian Ethics

“The idea is the whole thing. If you stay true to the idea, it tells you everything you need to Continue reading →

Future Reloaded: An Interview with Matt Bluemink and Alessandro Sbordoni

XX121 is a large language model developed in 2021 by a team of researchers at Miskatonic University led by Julie Continue reading →

Self-Tracking: Why We Love Seeing Ourselves in Data

‘Listen to your body: all you have to do is wear it’ This is the promise of the FitBit Inspire Continue reading →

Cybernetic Discourse Analysis: “Mother Was an AI”

This is an edited excerpt from Giorgi Vachnadze’s book Christian Eschatology of Artificial Intelligence published by Becoming Press. At the Continue reading →

TikTok and Taboo: Mysticism in the Information Age

“Animism has endowed things with souls; industrialism turns souls into things.”  — Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment Continue reading →

The Fourth Wall: The Lynchian Aesthetic of I Saw the TV Glow

“We begin in the dark and birth is the death of us.”   — Anne Carson, Antigonick  The fourth wall is, Continue reading →

Empire of Sounds: Reconstructing the Japanese Pop of the 1980s

The anime Megazone 23, directed and written by Ishiguro Noboru and produced in 1985, can be cited as an example Continue reading →