Posted in John Lilly, cognitive liberty, consciousness, epistemology, language, noetic technology, psychedelic science, silence, thesis on 12 June 2008 | 3 Comments »
In a scholarly article, I am permitted to quote another author. The visual cue of quotation marks, or, with a longer quote, an indented block of text, or the italics and right-justification of an epigram mark the change in identity. But what if the same author (could be me) makes an argument in several [...]
Posted in LiveGlide, alien languages, language on 6 June 2008 | No Comments »
I’ll be performing with composer and sound designer Stephan Moore at Roulette in NYC at 8:30 PM, 20 Greene St. on the 21st of June, part of the MIXOLOGY series. Stephan on laptop audio; Diana on visual–LiveGlide performance video. They will be joined by dancer/choreographer Kimberly Young, who will being using a Wii [...]
Posted in DMT machine elves, Henry Munn, John Lilly, LiveGlide, Maria Sabina, Simon Powell, Terence McKenna, alien languages, consciousness, entheogen, entities, epistemology, hallucination, language, noetic technology, perception, psychedelic science, psychedelics, synesthesia, the Other on 22 February 2008 | 5 Comments »
Xenolinguistics: the scientific study of languages of non-human intelligences. Publications in this field tend to be speculative as few people have made the claim to have understood an alien language, at least not reliably.
—Wikuniversity
Hallucinations as Alien Art
The key to this discussion is a conceit of the extraordinary vision-producing ability unleashed in consciousness [...]
Posted in LiveGlide, Tom Ray, alien languages, consciousness, entheogen, entities, epistemology, language, neural plasticity, noetic technology, perception, psychedelic science, the Other on 15 February 2008 | 1 Comment »
Wikiuniversity offers a wry definition of Xenolinguistics: “the scientific study of languages of non-human intelligences. Publications in this field tend to be speculative as few people have made the claim to have understood an alien language, at least not reliably.”
The grand convergence of psychedelics and technology came in the summer of 1998. I [...]
Posted in Andy Clark, John Lilly, John Perry Barlow, LSD, LiveGlide, Tom Ray, Tom Roberts, VR, consciousness, cyborg, deixis, epistemology, genetic engineering, hallucination, interconnectivity, language, neural plasticity, noetic technology, osmose, perception, psychedelics, the R word, thesis on 18 December 2007 | 4 Comments »
Been working on this one for the last month–it’s the final paper for the Electronic Imaging conference upcoming in San Jose, 27–31 January, 2008. This is a giant conference made of of many smaller conferences–the one I’m presenting in is #6804: The Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality 2008.
Virtual Reality and Hallucination: A Technoetic [...]
Posted in DMT machine elves, LiveGlide, hallucinogens, language, psychedelics, synesthesia on 15 October 2007 | 7 Comments »
Everything is deeply intertwingled.
—Ted Nelson
The literatures that touch on synesthesias—scientific, art-historical, literary, phenomenological, ethnographic, psychedelic—vary widely in their definitions, interpretations, and in their degree of comfort with the first-person, subjective nature of experiential reports. The significances given to synesthetic experiences are similarly wide-ranging. This article explores the relationships among synesthesias, psychedelic experience, [...]
Posted in Terence McKenna, language, psychedelics, thesis on 18 July 2007 | No Comments »
Here’s the latest version of my thesis statement. The full document is posted on Google docs and includes a condensed version of my bibliography (very few journal articles listed yet).
Reality is truly made of language and of linguistic structures that you carry, unbeknownst to yourself, in your mind, and which, under the influence of [...]
