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  • Weird Studies

    • Weird Studies/Live in Chicago

    10 Jun 2022 - 03 Jul 2025
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      • Potions! Rituals around drug use. "weed head shit" – the pleasurable and unnecessarily ritualized consumption of substances.
      • A railroad train interrupted, feel sure I recognized the Santa Fe...
      • Freud and repitition.
      • The subjective attractions of ritual. Comfort, centering, making people pay attention to important and enjoyable and transient sensation.
      • Experience and "skinbags", well, they bettter not give me shit if I use Minsky's term " Meat Machines ".
      • Magic works when you convince the universe that your preferred narrative just has to happen (poor paraphrase) - has to do with the narraive version of life. To be a real materialist you have to embrace story (YAY)