Cyberdelics

The Synthetic Imaginal

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The newest instrument in the oldest sequence. Generative image, immersive environment, cyberdelic media — and the question the archive has been building toward: if awe can be engineered on demand, what happens to the authority of the state it induces?

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Entheogenic Shamanism

The Visionary Pharmakon

The Greeks had one word - pharmakon - for both remedy and poison. This dossier takes the plant as an instrument rather than a sacrament or a drug. The plant arranges a condition. Jonathan Ott, who with Ruck, Bigwood, Staples and Wasson coined the word 'entheogen'. Ott had no patience for the phrase psychedelic renaissance: nothing had died, so nothing was being reborn - the practice has been continuous for ten thousand years and is still going strong.

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Cyberdelics

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The Synthetic Imaginal

Entheogenic Shamanism

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