Spirits Of Place: Where The Buddleia GrowsWhere The Buddleia Grows is a talk I gave on 2 April 2016ce at the Spirits Of Place…
Welcome To The Churn(This is the latest issue of my weekly email newsletter, CATERWAULING: you can subscribe to it here. Posted here by request.)
Video of “Under Its Spell: Magic, Machines, and Metaphors”This video is from Theorizing the Web 2015… It contains a wide-ranging conversation about Magick, Technology, Labour, Work, Knowledge, Science, Ritual Initiation, Police Surveillance, and much more.
How We Teach Is Also A LessonI often think about the phrase “Strange things happen at the one two point,” in relation to the idea of humans meeting other kinds of minds. It’s a proverb that arises out of the culture around the game GO, and it means that you’ve hit a situation, a combination of factors…
Go to hell, Bobby Jindal.The xenophobia and/or naked opportunism of US government officials in the wake of the recent attacks in Paris (I’d say, “and Beirut”, if I thought some of these cretins could find Lebanon using Google Maps) — from CIA Director John Brennan and Senator Ted Cruz to anencephalic…
On GOTHAM and Always Being BatmanA good deal of our remit, over here, is to talk about many of the themes of the fringes of things…
IT’S NOT A WAR, IT’S A RESCUE MISSIONThis is a re-release of my essay It’s Not A War, It’s A Rescue Mission — originally published on the now defunct website, Grinding.be, March 7th, 2011.Also available in this PDF version — (thanks lizbt!)
The Many Posthuman Aspects of PACIFIC RIMAKA: The candy-coated human/machine rescue mission.Pacific Rim is many things. Many shiny, spectacular, immersive, self-aware, monster genre mashing, robot smashing, crowd pleasing, city…