1 Lamina Dyre, who called herself my sherpa, said as we stood by the back entrance of the Maryanne House: “We’re in the oldest part. Servant’s quarters.” A few moments…
Occulturists, present and future, The extended Tuning Speculation deadline for occultural papers is July 1, rapidly approaching! Details here. Looking forward to wild and witchy concoctions! - xenopraxis
Editorial note: The Occulture is delighted, in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica revelations, to publish Katherine Behar's extremely lucid diagnosis of the dividualizing mechanisms increasingly modulating collective affordances. This paper was…
DARPA, Defense Sciences Office, is seeking individuals with advanced musical training and expertise with audio software environments for a wide-range of research initiatives tasked with the development of disruptive technologies…
A few months ago, I traveled to the Performing Arts Forum in St. Erme France. I have been thinking about guns ever since. I went to talk about sex. The…
Ah, coffee. The espresso maker hisses at me and I’m glad to interrupt my reverie. A friend once remarked that coffee could be the foundation of an ontology. He never…
Reason, n., an imaginary process onto which the responsibility for thinking is off-loaded. — René Daumal, A Night of Serious Drinking. 1.0—My two cents—though it’s worth recognizing that in Canada…
Deep Throat was slouched against a pillar at the north end of the underground parking lot we used to meet in. It had been over 40 years, but the vagaries…
Halloween Tooth-Shaving in the Pre-Dawn of the Trumposcene[1] On the last night of October 2016, having already considered shaving my teeth, I found myself at a Halloween party in…
