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Commons

Beyond Life Inc: Talking with Douglas Rushkoff

Peggy Nelson

Media ecologist Douglas Rushkoff tells how the corporation has made us over into its own image, and how we can take it back. He also illuminates the Dark Ages, reveals why there's a God on our money, and explains what we're really buying into when we buy that mortgage. (more)

7-1-09

Commons

Chicago: A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Shaw

Obama's success and Blagojevich's shame flow from the two wrestling motifs of Chicago's history: radical politics, and corrupt cronyism. (more)

12-16-08

Arts

Maps of the Metaphysical Double: In the Footprints of de Chirico

Brian George

De Chirico's images of deserted town squares and empty headed manikins are iconic. Discovering his paintings was like discovering a new world, or being altered by a drug which had the power to rearrange my entire way of seeing. (more)

3-7-08

Arts

Shamans and Charlatans: Assessing Castaneda's Legacy

ST Frequency

When first published in 1968, Carlos Castaneda's The Teachings of Don Juan was hailed as a groundbreaking ethnographic account of Native American shamanism. With fame came scrutiny, however, and a debate clouded Castaneda's legacy. But there's no doubt that both Castaneda and Don Juan shaped the Western world's understanding of entheogens and Native American culture. (more)

1-10-08

Arts

Magnetic Field Music

Bill Machon

A blind geophysicist reveals the history of Earth's magnetic field reversals through a curious sound interpretation.

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12-14-07

Psyche

History Lessons with His Holiness: The Story of Tibet

Adam Elenbaas

Journalist Thomas Laird spent three years in Dharamsala with the Dalai Lama, interviewing him – and arguing with him – about the vast span of Tibetan history. The book that emerged from their conversations, The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama is at once intimate and far-ranging, a unique combination of oral history and journalistic mission. (more)

10-26-07

Psyche

Mapping New Lands Amidst Daemons

Kevin Dann

[Daemonic Dispatches] • An introduction to the column "Daemonic Dispatches," which aims to describe with the cartographer's discerning eye and interpret with the mythographer's spirited clairvoyance the new daemonic lands breaking in upon human consciousness. . . in the spirit of the classic cartographers Samuel de Champlain and Charles Fort. (more)

4-21-07