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Tag Archives: Terence McKenna
Groan of Drones
Groan of Drones In the early years of ethnology and anthropology scholars were fascinated by the predominance of universal cultural visions; the widespread motifs of the Goddess and the mother-son alliance. These were not particularly popular ideas with the scientists … Continue reading
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Tagged drones, emily nussbaum, game of thrones, Obama, osha, Paul Stamets, Terence McKenna
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Occupy Spaceship Earth or… Downton Abbey?
Here we are, racing through the first quarter of 2012, a year heaving with portents, some good, some bad, some questionable and crazed. We’re seeing alignments of heavenly bodies which haven’t occurred in donkeys’ years and the crumbly end of … Continue reading
Writhing in Sleaze
Rupert Murdoch’s decision to close the 168 yr old News of the World seemed both shocking and appropriate: the sleaziest newspaper in Britain had finally out-sleazed itself with it’s illegal phone-tapping activities and bowed out of the lucrative Sunday trade … Continue reading
Queen Eileen and the Twisted Knickers of Feminism
As soon as I read Susan Faludi’s essay American Electra: Feminism’s Ritual Matricide (Harpers Oct 2010) I felt a little uncomfortable bunching in my undergarments. Faludi tells a lamentable tale concerning the history of the feminist movement where every succeeding … Continue reading
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Tagged cross-dressing, eygpt, feminism, Israel, Palestine, Riane Eisler, suffragettes, susan faludi, Terence McKenna
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Loving the Cyborg and the Mushroom
Two things: Terence Mckenna’s insistence on the human desire to “shed the monkey body” always scared me and then paradoxically the cybernetically enhanced Borg of Star Trek always seemed rather sexy. Early one morning as I trawled fakecrack I found … Continue reading
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Tagged amber case, cyborg, cyborg anthropology, donna haraway, Facebook, marc auge, psilocybin, psychedelic, seven of nine, Terence McKenna
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BILLEE SHARP
FAKECRACK, MICE, MATHBOOKS & MILLER by Billee Sharp Fakecrack. That’s my favorite nick-name for Facebook, although Wastebook, Facedrama and Hatebook also get some play. I’m disparaging about Zuckerberg’s social network mostly because it killed Ravedrama, a harmless little blog that … Continue reading
