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 …
Patterns: politics
The people we’re supposed to be
Here’s the text of the commercial: You know when you feel the weight of sadness. You may feel exhausted, hopeless, and anxious. Whatever you do, you feel lonely and don’t enjoy the things you once loved. [Symptoms persist every day for at least two weeks.] Things just don’t feel like they used to. These are …
Gatekeepers and drugs
Ed Silverman at Pharmalot has pointed out some interesting research by the Keller Fay Group market research firm indicating that (surprise!) individual drug consumers are more likely to listen to the recommendations of friends and family than to their physicians or psychiatrists when it comes to making choices about what drugs to consume. According to …
