“Messages from beyond” are forms of information, and information is a trickster

The exotic desires uncorked by travel make for a messy romance, blending recognition and projection -- a crush on the Other. Muzaffarabad, Zamboanga, Babdaroon -- for Westerners, can these fail to seduce? (Okay, Babdaroon is from Lord Dunsany). Unfortunately, for the last half millennium, Westerners have courted travel in empire's brothel. Today the recognition of this imperialist imagination has led to a refreshing political deconstruction of exoticism, whether of the "primitive" or the Orient. But in some corners, this has...

There is a difference between psychedelic experiences and psychedelic people

The exotic desires uncorked by travel make for a messy romance, blending recognition and projection -- a crush on the Other. Muzaffarabad, Zamboanga, Babdaroon -- for Westerners, can these fail to seduce? (Okay, Babdaroon is from Lord Dunsany). Unfortunately, for the last half millennium, Westerners have courted travel in empire's brothel. Today the recognition of this imperialist imagination has led to a refreshing political deconstruction of exoticism, whether of the "primitive" or the Orient. But in some corners, this has...

But what if the medium is the message?

The exotic desires uncorked by travel make for a messy romance, blending recognition and projection -- a crush on the Other. Muzaffarabad, Zamboanga, Babdaroon -- for Westerners, can these fail to seduce? (Okay, Babdaroon is from Lord Dunsany). Unfortunately, for the last half millennium, Westerners have courted travel in empire's brothel. Today the recognition of this imperialist imagination has led to a refreshing political deconstruction of exoticism, whether of the "primitive" or the Orient. But in some corners, this has...

It is too close, too far-out, its sacred transmissions too muddled with the scandalous grit of its concrete historical unfoldment

The exotic desires uncorked by travel make for a messy romance, blending recognition and projection -- a crush on the Other. Muzaffarabad, Zamboanga, Babdaroon -- for Westerners, can these fail to seduce? (Okay, Babdaroon is from Lord Dunsany). Unfortunately, for the last half millennium, Westerners have courted travel in empire's brothel. Today the recognition of this imperialist imagination has led to a refreshing political deconstruction of exoticism, whether of the "primitive" or the Orient. But in some corners, this has...

Terminal. What other journey, you might ask, begins at the end?

The exotic desires uncorked by travel make for a messy romance, blending recognition and projection -- a crush on the Other. Muzaffarabad, Zamboanga, Babdaroon -- for Westerners, can these fail to seduce? (Okay, Babdaroon is from Lord Dunsany). Unfortunately, for the last half millennium, Westerners have courted travel in empire's brothel. Today the recognition of this imperialist imagination has led to a refreshing political deconstruction of exoticism, whether of the "primitive" or the Orient. But in some corners, this has...