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 [...]
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Those engaged in psychedelic science—legit or outlaw flavors—assume, as the ancient profession of shaman has always presumed, that the discoveries, the observations, the affordances, and the actions available to a person in an altered state are useful to the community. How useful?
Certainly the insights of psychedelic science—at least the raw observations—have penetrated the zone [...]
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Posted in LSD, psychedelics on 25 July 2007 | No Comments »
The title a knock-off, of course, of Albert Hoffman’s book, LSD: My Problem Child.
Terminology
Psychedelics: the discourse of the unmentionable by the disreputable about the unspeakable. Legitimizing the discourse becomes a cottage industry: placing the black sheep within a disciplinary fold: medical, psychotherapeutic, bio-chemical, spiritual, anthropological, ethnobotanical, neuroscientific, consciousness studies, and even [...]
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Starting this blog for several reasons.
To soften the brittleness of the “high academic” discourse I’m involved in, working toward a Ph.D. on psychedelics and language.
To keep in touch with what I really think, and to the act of thinking it, so I can fold back into the academic thing with more integrity.
To sift the [...]
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