Erik Davis’s Techgnosis Investigates the Technosoul
“With pills modifying personality, machines modifying bodies, and synthetic pleasures and networked minds engineering a more fluid and invented sense
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Go Gonzo Journal
Fake news with a spin of Truth
Month: February 2012
Welcome to the Gonzo Lecture
There’s a whole bunch of crap talked about Gonzo by a lot of people who ought to know a lot
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NDAA: Indefinite Detention and Unending Warfare
On New Year’s Eve 2011, as people around the world celebrated the arrival of a new year, President Obama signed
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Polemics by Alain Badiou
To French philosopher Alain Badiou, philosophy is more than intellectual arm wrestling; it doesn’t merely serve to ask questions about
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The Faith of the Faithless by Simon Critchley
“When I think of religion at all, I feel as if I would like to found an order for those
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The Dominance of Fiction: Discourse and the Birth Pangs of New Political Fictions
To proliferate cultural or political traditions, those seeking to dominate discourse are usually concerned with pragmatic “truth”—with the usefulness of concepts, which are determined useful if they seem to appeal to the instincts of groups.
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Been There, Done That, Burned the T-shirt
Marcel Proust is an acquired taste, and it only took nearly 200 pages for me to acquire that taste. Perhaps
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Raped by Rick Santorum
A few weeks ago my friend, let’s call him Dave, was aware of my incredible knack for predicting the GOP
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Love Through Magic, Confidence Through Faith, Divinity Through Memory
“The talisman is an object imprinted with an image which has been supposed to been rendered magical, or to have
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The Rise of Dogmatic Brainwashing
“We try to rediscover in things, now precious because of it, the glimmer that our soul projected on them; we
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