Halloween Tooth-Shaving in the Pre-Dawn of the Trumposcene
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 Washington, DC,...
View ArticleTHE RESTRICTED AND THE GENERAL
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 of chronoportation made it seem like just...
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Alternating Veracity
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 the...
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ex post facto ex ante
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 followed up. Neither did I. But...
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Not Bill but Joan
Bill, armed 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 other speaker’s talk was on sects. It...
View ArticleTHE PROSODIAC (or, A PRO’S O.D.)
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...
View ArticlePERSONALITIES WITHOUT PEOPLE. Guest Post by Katherine Behar!
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...
View ArticleTS5: Katherine Behar’s Personalities Without People
A preview of the complete set of TS5 talks, coming in the next few weeks on this channel! – xenopraxis
View ArticleTUNING SPECULATION 6: JULY 1 DEADLINE!
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! –...
View ArticleThe Maryanne House, or the extra_musical (Fragments of a Lobe Story)
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 earlier, I had taken a cocktail...
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