Tag Archives: reality hacking
Galleria Divinorum
1997 – Inspired by conscious dreaming, a series of paintings made over a 3 year period while working as a screenprinter. Mainly airbrushed acrylics on board. I buy a computer and stop painting, spending the next 6 years in videogames … more…
Inside the Hollow Earth « strange maps
strange maps has an interesting historical run-down, very light on the linkage, but easily remedied by pointing Wikipedia at “hollow earth“. I might have posted on this subject while I was reading the relevant passage in Against the Day, but … more…
links for 2007-08-12: Dick’s universe
How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later PK Dick from 1978 on deoxy.org. Stumbled across this again following a link in a comment on Warren’s latest column (yeah, hyeurgh! Dick-related column!) at Suicide Girls (tags: … more…
RAW Data
Robert Anton Wilson (see many previous posts), paralysed, bed-ridden and “high in oath”, has nevertheless taken up blogging at RAW Data. He recommends the new Hannibal Lecter book (as blogged here previously), which he considers the best of the four; … more…
Tobias Schneebaum
Fascinating interview with Schneebaum by Allan Gurganus over at the Bombsite: The skulls in my apartment keep me in touch with my ancestors. Through them, I absorb the essence of their beliefs. Through them I gain their strength. The skulls … more…
Against Interpretation: Florida’s Fear of History
One way to measure the fears of people in power is by the intensity of their quest for certainty and control over knowledge. By that standard, the members of the Florida Legislature marked themselves as the folks most terrified of … more…
Adam Phillips: Happiness is always a delusion
The psychoanalyst author of On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored has a new one coming out. The subject is the ever-popular pursuit of happiness, and the news isn’t good, but it might set you free. “I don’t want happiness to … more…
Gary Gygax, World Dictator?
You wouldn’t necessarily know it if, like me, you’ve been visiting Charlie Stross’s long-established blog address and waiting for something to happen, but there’s a fairly major post in the provisional post-migration-from-Blosxom version of the blog, on the his work-in-progress, … more…
Magicians in the air tonight
Channel 4 – Real Lives – Jasper Maskelyne In 1941, Maskelyne was involved in an elaborate operation which diverted German bombers from the port of Alexandria by setting up a fake harbour in a nearby bay; this involved constructing dummy … more…
SELFS: Michael Staley on Initiation
Attended another meeting of the South East London Folklore Society last night – Michael Staley gave forth on the subject of initiation, with particular reference to an Austin Osman Spare drawing called The Background of Prescience. I’ve been unable to … more…