http://backend.userland.com/rss092 http://techgnosis.com/ psychedelic futurism av@phong.com (Anson // Phong) Thu, 15 May 2008 11:12:44 MDT http://techgnosis.com/chunkshow-single.php?chunk=chunkfrom-2008-05-12-2336-0.txt Mon, 12 May 2008 11:36:00 MDT The last time I saw Dale Pendell, we got together to plan a weekend workshop that we are doing at the Ojai Foundation with some other cronies. Dale had just gotten back from the Czech Republic, where... http://techgnosis.com/chunkshow-single.php?chunk=chunkfrom-2008-05-08-1247-0.txt Thu, 8 May 2008 12:47:00 MDT Brittany, the northwestern department of France much beloved of French tourists, is one of those enchanted places that form a Celtica countercurrent to the national maps of Europe, bridging the UK... http://techgnosis.com/chunkshow-single.php?chunk=chunkfrom-2008-05-06-1023-0.txt Tue, 6 May 2008 10:23:00 MDT  <<>>   ! Subscribe to Erik Davis' Techgnosis by Email http://techgnosis.com/chunkshow-single.php?chunk=chunkfrom-2008-05-04-1028-0.txt Sun, 4 May 2008 10:28:00 MDT The following is the second installment of The Analog Life, a column  for Arthur magazine.  PDFs of the entire new and cool issue are available from the link above.Last month I ditched my... http://techgnosis.com/chunkshow-single.php?chunk=chunkfrom-2008-04-29-0213-0.txt Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:13:00 MDT When I am in Europe I love visiting churches. They are portals into a resplendent and disturbing imagination, their architecture is fascinating and constantly varying, and, best of all in times like... http://techgnosis.com/chunkshow-single.php?chunk=chunkfrom-2008-04-25-0240-0.txt Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:40:00 MDT Zachary Lazar is one of those fiction writers you might come across in the New Yorker and—if you are anything like me—rapidly flip by on your way to the critics. As the jacket flap of his... http://techgnosis.com/chunkshow-single.php?chunk=chunkfrom-2008-04-22-0256-0.txt Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:56:00 MDT On the eve of flying to France, I asked my pal Layil, who is a refugee from the darkside vampire scenes of New York city and Barcelona, if she knew any night crawlers in Paris who could get me into... http://techgnosis.com/chunkshow-single.php?chunk=chunkfrom-2008-04-19-0524-0.txt Sat, 19 Apr 2008 05:24:00 MDT So the Pilkdown Man, Fer and I trundled out past the Parisian périphérique under glowering and then groaning skies to some tiny hep club tucked behind North African meat joints. The... http://techgnosis.com/chunkshow-single.php?chunk=chunkfrom-2008-04-17-0209-0.txt Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:09:00 MDT Actually all I was doing was packing for a two-week trip to Paris. I don’t like packing. I simultaneously want to be prepared for every contingency and to reduce my stuff to a clean, nomadic... http://techgnosis.com/chunkshow-single.php?chunk=chunkfrom-2008-04-13-2006-0.txt Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:06:00 MDT When I slapped on the forthcoming ESL disc The Alchemist Manifesto, I didn’t know much about Ocote Soul Sounds, or Adrian Quesada, or their various accomplishments, the most notable of which I... http://techgnosis.com/chunkshow-single.php?chunk=chunkfrom-2008-04-08-1710-0.txt Tue, 8 Apr 2008 05:10:00 MDT Tucson, Arizona. The bi-annual conference Toward a Science of Consciousness takes place this year in a downtown conference center pleasantly landscaped with palm trees, barrel cactus, bubbling... http://techgnosis.com/chunkshow-single.php?chunk=chunkfrom-2008-04-04-0928-0.txt Fri, 4 Apr 2008 09:28:00 MST I got something to thank John Darnielle for, and it has nothing to do with his act the Mountain Goats. A number of years ago, my pal Julian Dibbell, who is friends with a pal of Darnielle’s... http://techgnosis.com/chunkshow-single.php?chunk=chunkfrom-2008-04-03-0730-0.txt Thu, 3 Apr 2008 07:30:00 MST Like lots of sonicnauts out there, I have been growing increasingly enthused with dubstep over the last year plus. The first time I heard a good set, I was at a techno-hippie gathering dominated by... http://techgnosis.com/chunkshow-single.php?chunk=chunkfrom-2008-03-31-1343-0.txt Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:43:00 MST When I was writing The Visionary State, my book about alternative spirituality in California, I had the opportunity (and the excuse) to visit scores of sacred and eccentric sites in the state. It... http://techgnosis.com/chunkshow-single.php?chunk=chunkfrom-2008-03-29-1204-0.txt Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:04:00 MST Paul Miller, aka DJ Spooky, has been putting this collection together for quite a spell and now its out! Sound Unbound is certainly one of the more dynamic and eclectic audio culture collections I've... http://techgnosis.com/chunkshow-single.php?chunk=chunkfrom-2008-03-24-1007-0.txt Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:07:00 MST This interview appears in the jam-packed, terrific new issue of Yeti magazine. <> I first time I heard PG Six’s solo album, Parlor Tricks and Porch Favorites,  I had that...