The sublime connection between Kant and Krautrock, from Black Dog's great new book on the latter.

A selection from my introduction to a new book of photography.

A look at Joss Whedon's Dollhouse, for h+ magazine.

Does the economic slowdown herald a change in time itself? From Arthur.

A Bookforum review of the San Francisco poet's long-awaited poetry collection.

New Arthur column: Can psy-trance save the world?

My latest Arthur column, on MP3 mania

A 1989 overview of Gilles Deleuze

My latest Arthur column, on digital vs. analog TV.

A sorta prescient 1992 review of the Magnetic Fields

My new column for Arthur magazine.

My recently published intro to a classic collection of 60s articles on psychedelics

An overview of Philip K. Dick written back in the day

A 2002 review of an artist and record I love.

A 1995 look at the cross-over of Krishna consciousness and the American hardcore scene.

In which the author submits to the pleasures of a transgender spirit possession festival in Burma.

A visit to Druid Heights, a hidden mystic Beatnik Zen lesbian colony that lingers on in the wilds of Marin County.

A definition and overview of Visionary Art, with a brief meditation on tradition.

An indepth review of the LA MOCA show that explored the connection between altered states and art.

A sacred (and profane) exploration of some of California's visionary collage and assumblage artists, including Wallace Berman, Jess, and Simon Rodia.

A lengthy exploration of the sacred dimension of Burning Man, which can seem about as profane as it gets.

A meditation on Descartes, The Matrix, and the question of who we are when the reality around us is a virtual illusion.

An essay from Zig Zag Zen that offers a tantic reading of psychedelics in American Buddhism. "No-one's logging any numbers, but I suspect that a healthy chunk of self-identified practicing American Buddhists keep at least occasional dates with the writhing, world-rending void lurking in the heart of psychedelic hyperspace. But I also suspect that, if asked to render judgment on such activities, most dharma teachers would deliver a fat thumbs down."

Information metaphysics in the Western religious tradition.

An in-depth look at Goa's classic trance scene: neo-tantra, electronic beats, and the psychedelic travelers unite.

A study of the magick in the master. "For Lovecraft, it is not the sleep of reason that breeds monsters, but reason with its eyes agog."

A fat magazine feature on Tolkien fandom and the creation of Peter Jackson's epic films.

A review of Edward Whittemore's amazing, hilarious, and occult-savvy Jerusalem Quartet.

Neil Gaiman later told me that this three-way discussion with SF writer Rachel Pollack was the favorite interview he had given.

Perhaps the first national magazine coverage of the vinyl toy phenomenon.

A review of Van Burnham's fascinating Supercade: A Visual History of the Videogame Age, 1971-1984.

A brief history of the evolution and decline of one of the twentieth century’s liveliest machines.

An alchemical Deleuzian ode to a kiddie goop toy called Gak; perhaps my maddest piece.

The lucrative mythic iconography of the Lucas films.

A cultural overview of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, the hottest media meme/kiddie-toy infection of the mid-1990s.

Beaming up with hardcore Klingon Trekkers.

This 1995 piece was the first national feature about Burning Man.

One of my earliest features, this 1991 article about the Rainbow Gathering prompted High Times' Steven Hagar to call me "an intellectual twit."

Millions of amateur astronomers have pored over pictures of the Red Planet. Experience the thrill of discovery - or self-delusion - for yourself!

A broad theoretical exploration of the interpenetrating issues of space, acoustics, and digital sound.

A review of Steven Johnson's fascinating Emergence

A review of a juicy Bucky Fuller book.

An essay on making Baby smart through technology.

A look at "The science of Star Trek" books.

A media-saturated essay of the curious conjunction of the comet-Jupiter collision with the twenty-fifth anniversary of Apollo 11.

Anthropological notes from a summer of MUD addiction, circa 1993.

Dispatches from the Net in the days following the destruction of the Albert Murrah Federal Building in 1995.

An interview/essay on James Burke, the delightful British maestro of science TV.

A look at the classic computer game and its religious and mythic underpinnings.

It was only a matter of time before toy companies turned from plush interactive hairballs to digikinetic babies. Yours will be arriving shortly.

Futuristic cyber-mettalurgy meets the ancient alchemical art of the forge.

Canadian artist Char Davies turns virtual worlds into opportunities for transport, vision, and insight.

A defining essay that argues that human experience itself has now become a central object of design.

A review of the crucial book How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics, by N. Katherine Hayles

"The business of envisioning the future should not be a business but a calling for artists, mystics and soccer Moms alike."

An essay on limits and technological possibility, penned just before 9/11 but still, I hope, relevant.

An millennialist essay from the SFMOMA catalog for the art show 010101: Art in Technological Times.

A first-person account of the electromagnetic uncanny opened up by the new wireless reality.

The first in a series of essays on "the Posthuman Condition" for Feed.

"We have entered an era that sanctions the psychoactive use of commercial chemicals, not just to cure disease or even to relieve suffering, but to reformat who we feel we are."

A study of the relationship between technical communication and the West Africa's trickster god of messages, sex and deceit.

Selections from the wisdom literature of the ngHolos, as discovered by Lance Daybreak.

Philosophical encounters between the sage Lance Daybreak and his Buddhist computer interface.

An exploration on the spiritual tension between immanence and transcendence--the snakes and ladders of the soul.

The introduction to "Chaos Spirituality," an issue of Fringeware Review co-edited by Erik Davis and Spiros Antonopoulos. "Chaos stirs."

An interview with and essay on Peter Lamborn Wilson, the mystic nomad and renegade historian of spiritual heresy.

The literary subgenres of UFOlogy, a rumor of god stitched into the dark web of our military-industrial-media complex.

A Bookforum review of Slavog Zizek's The Puppet and the Dwarf, which turns Christianity upside down.

An essay on the roots and literature of modern Neopaganism.

A look at the inner workings of Luc Jouret's apocalyptic esoteric cult, which came to a suicidal end in Switzerland in 1994.

An award-winning profile of Joe Firmage, Silicon Valley entrepreneur and UFOnaut.

A visit to the National Religious Broadcasters convention during the first Gulf War.

Meet Hermes, the god of scholars and techgnostics.

A popular essay on Deleuze and Guattari's final book of "virtual philosophy."

A brief look at electromagnetic voice phenomena.

A brief look at the brilliant spiritual surrealist, writer, and Sanskritist Rene Daumal.

A Wired feature about the religious roots of the Mormon Church's technological obsessions with genealogical data.

A neo-tantric reading of the role entheogens have played in American Buddhism.

A personal essay: what happens when you follow up a Zen retreat with full immersion in the SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference?

The close encounters of Buddhism and neuroscience.