RIP Rongovian Embassy

Merzbow with 1 chicken

Merzbow with one chicken. For every like he gets another chicken.

Notice from Publishers Marketplace: “IN THE PROVINCE OF THE MOND by Jeffrey Mathias. Imprint: University of Chicago Press. Historian of science and practicing psychoanalyst Jeffrey Mathias’ In the Province of the Mind, a narrative history of experiments in human isolation, from clandestine government funded operations at the height of the Cold War to endurance trials conducted in the early days of the space race, to sensory deprivation tanks, psychedelics assisted mediation and the cartel systems use of solitary confinement, a tale of the hidden corners of consciousness and of science at its most far reaching, to Karen Darling at university of Chicago press by Nate Muscato at aevitas creative management.

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Notice from Publishers Marketplace: “IN THE PROVINCE OF THE MOND by Jeffrey Mathias. Imprint: University of Chicago Press. Historian of science and practicing psychoanalyst Jeffrey Mathias’ In the Province of the Mind, a narrative history of experiments in human isolation, from clandestine government funded operations at the height of the Cold War to endurance trials conducted in the early days of the space race, to sensory deprivation tanks, psychedelics assisted mediation and the cartel systems use of solitary confinement, a tale of the hidden corners of consciousness and of science at its most far reaching, to Karen Darling at university of Chicago press by Nate Muscato at aevitas creative management.

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What a brilliant idea. Maybe Michael Taussig’s mimesis and alterity or devil and commodity fetishism are relevant?

Still consult slipbase from time to time: www.phrazz.com/slipbase/

Yes, I am a cop.

I was at this gig and didn’t see anyone obviously taping. Rich Mix, the venue, might tape off sbd tho. They’re nice people so would probably respond to a query or two

What an impressively ignorant comment.

A lot of the literature on migration and displacement is really good on nostalgia. Salman Akhtar’s “the immigrant, the exile, and nostalgia” is the classic

One of my favorite things that happened in my tenure in community radio was discovering that the station manager was Teitelbaum’s nephew after melting the airwaves with MEV. “Thanks for playing Uncle Richard.”

In 1958, John Lilly and a few other neurologists stumped for putting a dolphin in space as a neurophysiological analogue for humans

An edit of the "Yes... ha ha ha... YES!" sickos meme to replace the sicko with Cathy (from the syndicated newspaper comics) saying "Ack... ha ha ha... ACK!" with an expression of distress on her face. Her shirt also now reads "Ackos"

i think, unfortunately, that this may be my masterpiece

The first time I felt at home in London was seeing a baldponytail jazz dad type guy wearing a rush shirt and blazer.

My phd supervisor tried to get me to write a dissertation on general semantics

SOLITUDE IS ENRICHING

What a cool project!

Not literature but an example: mustard oil, pretty much the biggest staple of Bengali cooking, is always marketed in the US and UK as for “external use only,” which everyone knows to ignore. I think it skirts import restrictions this way or something.

Keep me posted! We should get a beer

You coming to London, bruv?

IIRC there’s some bits in Matt Ingram’s ‘retreat.’ Also in some of the scholarship on Osho cf Hugh urban.

G.I.Gurdjieff (1866-1949): Sacred Hymns / Piano Music - YouTube https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_I._Gurdjieff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gurdjieff G.I.Gurdjieff (1866-1949): Sacred Hymns / Piano Music https...

The only Gurdjieff you really need is Keith Jarrett’s recording of his compositions. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Since the Unabomber is in the news today, here's a piece I wrote with @cheffmathias.bsky.social in which the FBI believed the terrorist was an academic historian.

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

I’d like to post on this app I think but I feel like I’ve forgotten how. I had finally stopped thinking in tweets after abandoning twitter a while back and yet here we are.

I can think of a few reasons why not.

The Psychosocial Foundation

Today, we are relaunching The Psychosocial Foundation's website, enrolling new spring time courses and our 6th Seminar (on Resistance), and announcing our clinical expansion, set for early next year.
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I think Bruno Clarke is writing something on him now that should at the very least be appropriately bonkers.

So anyway, I says to Mabel, I says-