The Banana Peel Project

The increasing pervasiveness of pharmaceutical interventions in our lived experience (whatever being) demands that we reconfigure how we understand identity, and dramatically increases the stakes involved in such an understanding.
1. We must understand identity as experience or whatever being.  We must be psychonauts or adventurers of our literary and semiotic selves.  Terence McKenna, Timothy Leary, […]

The commodification of personality; personhood; identity; self:::
How do we come to know ourselves through personal technologies? Objectification. Discourse is always material; what discourses do individuals participate in, internalize? Swirling, multifaceted, contradictory cultural meanings congeal into narratives that are not necessarily coherent; technologies fragment narratives and unify them. The self is the […]

Let’s all go to hell.
It’s the least expensive vacation spot.
Make reservations at the door.
-Writing on the wall of the first Soteria House, San Jose (ca. 1972).