Laughlin & Throop (on experience and reality)
“The forms of knowledge that technologies mediate is integral to both a society’s cultural information pool, and to the extramental reality in which they live. Technology itself constitutes an alteration of that relationship — especially as it intervenes in the experiential aspects of that relationship . . . Technologies are in a sense ‘artifacts of [...]
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Andy Letcher at Horizons 2009
I looked forward to hearing Andy Letcher speak at Horizons. I hadn’t heard of his work or his book “Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom,” but the synopsis for his presentation sounded interesting: For those who have encountered the sacred mushroom, the psilocybin experience is like an ancient codex whose glyphs are at [...]
Horizons
The 3rd Horizons conference in New York City was September 25th, 26th and 27th. Although I wasn’t able to attend all the sessions, I was able to attend the performances at the opening reception, see William Richards and Franz Wollenweider on Saturday and Andy Letcher and Bob Jesse on Sunday. Horizons is a “forum for [...]
