Conservative types in the multimedia cineplex, stolid (uptight) too-straight men trying to play the crowd in the latter days of televised apocalypse. I recently returned to the paper I had published on Marshall McLuhan on Cyberpunks.com and reflected on Jordan Peterson's most recent public breakdowns harassing trans movie stars and banishment from twitter and his … Continue reading Reading Jordan Peterson as a Strung-Out (As We All Are Now) Postmodernist Marshall McLuhan
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TIMOTHY LEARY & THE CODE OF THE ‘NEW BREED’ FROM HIPPIES TO CYBERPUNK: IF > WHITE RABBIT \ \ \ THEN > CHESHIRE GRIN
WELCOME TO THE FUTURE: WE’RE ALL MAD HERE Alice is a child confronted by animals who don't help her on her quest but represent the world of adults turned cartoonish in their warped authority. Such, perhaps. is the world of a childlike rebel misfit like Timothy Leary. ALVIN C. KIBEL does an excellent job of … Continue reading TIMOTHY LEARY & THE CODE OF THE ‘NEW BREED’ FROM HIPPIES TO CYBERPUNK: IF > WHITE RABBIT \ \ \ THEN > CHESHIRE GRIN
The Spright Who Lives Between The Wall and the Door: A Poem, Based on Readings of Timothy Leary’s biography by Robert Greenfield
“The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the … Continue reading The Spright Who Lives Between The Wall and the Door: A Poem, Based on Readings of Timothy Leary’s biography by Robert Greenfield
I’m Hoping to Revive Video Dispatches From The Haunted Typewriter In March
I hope to make more video dispatches from The Haunted Typewriter on cyberpunk philosophy and hike the UNCANNY HIGHLANDS™ where literature, art, and technology collide. The 'Quality' Insignia From Robert M. Pirsig's Philosophy Wonder Book, 'Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintainance'. It depicts the idea, much like Heidegger's 'Concern' that Pirsig formulates through his … Continue reading I’m Hoping to Revive Video Dispatches From The Haunted Typewriter In March
R.I.P. to Lawrence Ferlinghetti – Poet and Publisher Who Took a Chance On the Beat Generation
R.I.P. to Lawrence Ferlinghetti - poet and publisher who took a chance and stood up to censorship lawsuits to publish some of the beat generation's best and most daring in the 1960s. Publishing Allen Ginsberg's poetry chapbook 'Howl' which was the subject of a groundshaking censorship trial cemented Ferlinghetti as a generous thoughtful leader of … Continue reading R.I.P. to Lawrence Ferlinghetti – Poet and Publisher Who Took a Chance On the Beat Generation
And Now, Bleeding and Glittering With Broken Glass, The Escaped Prisoner Will Deliver From A Darkened Lightning-Cracked Lectern A Disquisition on The Aesthetics of Hope
I think that optimism is only worth having if it is taken from a very dark seam. - Jim Crace, Interview with Believer Magazine https://player.vimeo.com/video/34734791 SAY ANYTHING - ALIVE WITH THE GLORY OF LOVE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srHyzakgl84 The Hold Steady - How A Resurrection Really Feels - 3/20/2009 - Club de Ville https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZUAlAVBY0M These are the red-eyed politics, the cocktail revisionistsWar room rules, no … Continue reading And Now, Bleeding and Glittering With Broken Glass, The Escaped Prisoner Will Deliver From A Darkened Lightning-Cracked Lectern A Disquisition on The Aesthetics of Hope
The Hexen 2.0 Tarot Deck Weds Cybernetics with Mystic Divination in a Far Out Alchemical Blend
The Following Description is taken from https://www.suzannetreister.net/HEXEN2/HEXEN_2.html HEXEN 2.0 looks into histories of scientific research behind government programmes of mass control, investigating parallel histories of countercultural and grass roots movements. HEXEN 2.0 charts, within a framework of post-WWII U.S. governmental and military imperatives, the coming together of scientific and social sciences through the development of cybernetics, … Continue reading The Hexen 2.0 Tarot Deck Weds Cybernetics with Mystic Divination in a Far Out Alchemical Blend
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