Abstract:This article examines cognition, identity, and agency as distributed across biological, microbial, and algorithmic systems. It challenges the notion of the individual by framing humans as holobionts—complex assemblages of human cells, symbiotic microorganisms, and increasingly, machine intelligence. Through interactive installations such as Scatter Surge, Enteric Consciousness,...
Abstract:This article examines a collection of "cybertrance" devices, originating in the 1960s and 1970s. These devices are based on the reappropriation of instruments from the academic world in order to place users in modified states of consciousness. They draw on the heritage of American cybernetics, and its mechanical philosophy, in order to explore what is machinelike in man. Their goal is...
Rhizome of Boehme and DeleuzeEsoteric Precursors of the God of Complexity Mark Bonta (bio) 1. Deleuze and the Occult Though it has been claimed that Deleuze sought to delink his thought from all religion (Bryden), a close examination of his major writings, as well as his collaborative work with Guattari, shows that he was closely attuned to the subterranean mystical currents that pervade...