5 papers in the library · 16 citations · publishing 2017-2025
Critique of Anthropology September 1, 2025 Joshua Falcon 2 citations
The medicalization of psychedelic drugs has gained significant momentum over the past two decades in the United States, ushering in new forms of scientific, medical, and clinical practice and training. As an increasing number of research programs and academic institutions focus on the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs, it is important to recognize that the emphasis on medical import is...
Anthropology of Consciousness April 20, 2025 Joshua Falcon 5 citations
ABSTRACT Anthropologists have studied the use of psychedelic drugs across cultures for over a century; however, this literature has yet to be compiled. In providing a brief survey of ethnographic research produced in the Global North on the ‘classic psychedelics’, this article suggests that there not only exists a robust subfield that can be called the anthropology of psychedelics, but that the...
Culture, Theory and Critique April 3, 2021 Joshua Falcon
ABSTRACT Traditional understandings of extraterritoriality have overlooked human consciousness as an intimate province of territorial governance. Whereas traditional approaches to extraterritoriality often adopt a modernist understanding of territory, this article expands on the concept by referring to extraterritoriality as the process and practice of discovering, reifying and intervening in...
Design and Culture October 13, 2020 Joshua Falcon 9 citations
Abstract Ontological and decolonial designers have called for a reorientation of the fundamental relations between humans, things, and the world away from their entrenchment in modernist and colonial thought. Both ontological and decolonial design therefore share the vision of transcending design’s modern philosophical inheritances to allow for the flourishing of new ontologies of...
2017 Joshua Falcon
The term entheogen refers to drugs—including the artificial substances and active principles drawn from them—which are known to produce ecstasy and have been used traditionally in certain religious and shamanic contexts. The entheogenic experiences provoked by entheogens are described by users in myriad ways, including in spiritual, religious, philosophical, and secular contexts. Entheogenic...