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The work of Erik Davis

Erik Davis is an American writer, scholar, journalist, and public speaker whose writings range from rock criticism to cultural analysis to esoteric explorations of California’s history.

I’ve been publishing stuff for over three decades, and most of it—with the exception of my books—resides on this site, which I have maintained through various iterations since the late 1990s. With Burning Shore now disseminating my fresher communiqués, Techgnosis.com acts more than ever as an archive of my work, including lectures, interviews, personal reflections, and almost a decade of the Expanding Mind podcast. Like Techgnosis itself, still in print and more relevant than ever, my stuff combines deep research with vivid writing and oracular aims that resonate through the years. For this revamped trans-temporal site, I and my team have introduced more robust searching and cross-linking of materials, as well as a roll-the-dice feature, which will hopefully allow for richer, more entertaining, and more synchronistic wanders through this wunderkammer.  — Erik

  • Books

    Blotter

    The Untold Story of an Acid Medium

    The Untold Story of an Acid Medium

    Blotter by Erik Davis is the first comprehensive written account of the history, art, and design of LSD blotter paper, the iconic drug delivery device that will perhaps forever be linked to underground psychedelic culture and contemporary street art. Created in collaboration with Mark McCloud’s Institute of Illegal Images, the world’s largest archive of blotter art, Davis’s boldly illustrated exhibition treats his outsider subject with the serious, art-historical respect it deserves...

A Random Selection

Citizen Science Trips
Expanding Mind Podcast
Citizen Science Trips
Expanding Mind

Emotional Trauma
Expanding Mind Podcast
Emotional Trauma
Expanding Mind

Remote Control
Mind and Philosophy
Remote Control
The car speaks

Cybernetic Psychedelica
Media
Cybernetic Psychedelica
MU Gallery, Eindhoven, NL, May 2011

Born in the Kali Yuga
Media
Born in the Kali Yuga
Sounds for the Bardo

N. Katherine Hayles’ Posthumanism
Mind and Philosophy
3 min
N. Katherine Hayles’ Posthumanism
How We Became Posthuman

The Gorey Details
Expanding Mind Podcast
The Gorey Details
Expanding Mind

The Polar Cosmos
Expanding Mind Podcast
The Polar Cosmos
Expanding Mind