Parallax Newsletter #78
New fall courses and new podcast episodes of Love or Die, The Parallax View and KULTURWANG
Parallax Course: The Teratogenic Mystique
“Teratogenic” names the substances that cultivate mutations & monstrosities. This strange new course from PARALLAX ACADEMY offers an in-depth exploration of the edges of transrational magic where uncanny transformations begin. The infamous post-postmodern shapeshifters Layman Pascal & Scout Rainer Wiley will guide you deep into the dark forest on a practical and theoretical journey into the uncanny, inhuman and unintelligible. Today, many new communities and we-spaces are forming around metamodernity, 4E cognitive science, Systems theory, Integralism, Game B, et al. but these movements are often hesitant to explore the unsavory and primal theater of occultism. Get all infos here
New Parallax Course: O.G. Rose: Look at the birds of the air - How we must unplan our lives
‘I choose the term ‘conviviality’ to designate the opposite of industrial productivity. I intend it to mean autonomous and creative intercourse among persons and the intercourse of persons with their environment […] I believe that, in any society, as conviviality is reduced below a certain level, no amount of industrial productivity can effectively satisfy the needs it creates among society’s members.’-Ivan Illich. Tools for Conviviality
The centipede could walk until the ladybug asked him how he did it; likewise, we knew how to be human until we had to ask how we managed to be human. As discussed in Belonging Again, it was once “given” how we should live our lives, think, and the like, but now we are free, which means we are less vulnerable to mass movements, but that also means we must decide for ourselves how to be human. We’ve often acted like things are still “given,” when they are not, and similarly we’ve applied that “thoughtlessness” to technology, creating a Preplanned world, which Ivan Illich saw threatened our humanity. We must today learn how to be human where it is no longer “given,” and yet nobody thinks they don’t know “how” to be human—that’s part of the problem.
Love or Die #4 - Marc Gafni - Sabbatai Sevi, Sara, and The Messiah
In this passionate conversation, Marc speaks about the unspeakable Sabbatai Sevi: The Jewish Messiah and apostate and his wife Sara. Who was Sabbatai Sevi and why is he important? Where Sex and Eros meet religion and the clarification of desire.
KULTURWANG #10: Vagina Dentata
We find the common element in two ancient movies, a recent Apple ad, and the culture war. You should not be self-congratulatory, but what a banger of an episode. And completely free by the way.
The Parallax View #101: Higher Standards
Tom and Andrew ramble about philosopher kings, and their sex-practices.
Die Zukunft des Romans im digitalen Zeitalter
Welche Bedeutung hat Literatur im digitalen Zeitalter? Ist die Technologie der Literatur veraltet, und was kann sie heute noch bewirken? Was ist Literatur, und was ist überhaupt ein Buch? Matthias Thiele ist Buchautor, Künstler und Psychologe im Gespräch mit Tom Amarque.