Technoccult TV: Hacktivists Peter Fein and The Doctor
In this video I speak with Peter Fein and The Doctor of the digital activist group Telecomix, which worked to keep the Internet available in the middle east during the Arab Spring by providing dial-up...
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Technoccult Interivew: King City Artist/Writer Brandon Graham
King City by Brandon Graham is a comic book about a guy named Joe and his cat Earthling in a far future metropolis run by spy gangs and evil sorcerers. It’s full of weird drugs, black magic, luchador...
View ArticleNotes from a William Gibson Q&A Session (9/08/10)
These are my notes from William Gibson’s Q&A session after his Zero History reading at Powells Books in Portland, OR on 9/08/2010 (here are some photographs from the evening). I thought initially...
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Vice’s Hamilton Morris Interviewed on Hallucinogenic Fish [Guest Post]
In 2006 two men cooked and ate a fish which they had caught in the Western Mediterranean. Minutes after ingesting the fish frightening visual and auditory hallucinations began to overcome them. These...
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Genesis Breyer P-Orridge Interviewed by Technoccult Part 1: TOPI Status Update
Photo by Seth Tissue / CC Klint Finley: How’s the new TOPI going? What’s the status? Genesis Breyer P-Orridge: Actually, it’s rather gratifying. You’ve probably been to the Ning. And there’s that...
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Technoccult Interview: Open Source Buddhism with Al Jigong Billings
Many Technoccult readers have probably seen Hermetic.com. Maybe you even got your first taste of Aleister Crowley, Austin Osman Spare or Hakim Bey there. What you might not know is that the site’s...
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Excerpt From Psychopomp Volume One: Cracked Plate By Amanda Sledz
“Psychopomp” A chapter from the novel Psychopomp Volume One: Cracked Plate Buy the book from the author here, from Powells Books or from Amazon here. Lola, get out of bed. It’s time to measure your...
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Technoccult Interview: Psychopomp Author Amanda Sledz
In her series Psychopomp, author Amanda Sledz takes a literary approach to writing about urban shamanism, magical thinking, tarot, telepathy and other themes usually reserved for the fantasy genre....
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Genesis Breyer P-Orridge Interviewed by Technoccult Part 2: Pandrogeny
Part two of my conversation with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge. Part one is here. Klint Finley: Can we talk about Pandrogeny? Sure. You already touched on male aggression earlier, but just for any of our...
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Technoccult Interview: Wilhelm Reich Comic Book Biographer Elijah Brubaker
Elijah Brubaker is the writer and artist of Reich, a biography of Wilhelm Reich in comic form. Reich (1897 – 1957) was an Austrian psychotherapist known for his theory of character analysis. He fled...
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Cyborgologist Nathan Jurgenson Interviewed On Mindful Cyborgs
This week cyborgologist Nathan Jurgenson joined Chris Dancy and me on Mindful Cyborgs. Nathan is the co-founder of the site Cyborgology, co-founder of the Theorizing the Web conference, a contributing...
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Arm Cannons and Futurism, an Interview With the Creators of Light Years Away
After a while, most serialized webcomics start to look the same. Just about every series seems to strike a similar balance of influences from anime and western animation. But not Light Years Away,...
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Interview: Sensor Hacking For Mindfulness with Nancy Dougherty on the new...
This week on Mindful Cyborgs Chris Dancy and I discussed the relationship between mindfulness and quantified self with biosensor engineer Nancy Dougherty. Nancy talks about how she came to the...
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Interview with Quantified Self Labs Director Ernesto Ramirez on the New...
This week on Mindful Cyborgs Chris Dancy and I interview Ernesto Ramirez, the program director, editor and community organizer of Quantified Self Labs and the webmaster of quantfiedself.com. We talked...
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Technoccult Interview: Zero and Suicide Squad Writer Ales Kot
Ales Kot writes comics, amongst other things. His first graphic novel, Wild Children with Riley Rossmo, was published by Image Comics last year. He quickly followed this with Change with Morgan Jeske,...
View ArticleMindful Cyborgs Meets Buddhist Geeks: The Vincent Horn Interview
This week on Mindful Cyborgs Chris Dancy and interview Vincent Horn co-founder the Buddhist Geeks community and co-host of the podcast of the same name. Here’s an excerpt: KF: Cool. So let me...
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Mindful Cyborgs Interviews Alex Soojung-Kim Pang on Contemplative Computing...
This week Chris Dancy and I interview Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, author of The Distraction Addiction: Getting the Information You Need and the Communication You Want, Without Enraging Your Family,...
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Mindful Cyborgs and Contemplative Computing, Part 2
The second part of the Mindful Cyborgs interview with Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, author of The Distraction Addiction: Getting the Information You Need and the Communication You Want, Without Enraging Your...
View ArticleKZSU Interview with Klintron, Recording and Transcript
If you missed me on 90.1 KZSU Stanford ThermoNuclear Bar last week you can now check it out on SoundCloud, or read the transcript below. We talked about the occult, conspiracy theory, EsoZone,...
View ArticleMindful Cyborgs: Power and Privilege in the New Working Order
This week Chris Dancy and I talked to Shanley, a tech product manager and feminist in the Bay Area, about sexism and micro-aggression in the work place. KF: How can people be more aware of what’s...
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