Archives for March 2017
Perennialism and Primitivism In Psychedelic Religions, Part 2 (Roger Green)
The following is the second of a three-part series. The first installment can be found here. An economic approach that more astutely tracks what’s at stake in emergent ayahuasca religions might combine Luis León’s idea of ‘religious poetics’ with anthropologist, Michael Taussig’s ficto-criticism of Latin American economies. I cite these…
Perennialism and Primitivism In Psychedelic Religions, Part 1 (Roger Green)
The following is the first of a three-part series. The second part can be found here. In this essay I am going to explore New Religious Movements (NRMs) emergent in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries that use entheogens or psychedelic substances as sacrament. This means that the use of mind-altering substances…
On Affect Theory And Art Criticism, Part 2 (Jeremy LeMahieu)
The following is the second installment of a two-part series. The first part can be found here. There are two common methods of writing about this experience. One describes the experience and brings it into the realm of representation. The other explains how the experience was created through a process…