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Metapsychosis

Journal of Consciousness, Literature, and Art

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Category: Books

See You in Our Dreams

Organizers:
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
  • Maía
  • Marco V Morelli
| 5 Jun 2021 Readers Underground Group

Intimate Reading Performance and Social Dreaming Experiment beginning June 19th The story, set in the 2050s, focuses on an underground community of poets, artists, scientists, and theater geeks (Bard-lovers) who share the weird experience of receiving …

cover image from Medb

Review: Medb, by Brigid Burke

By
  • Mary Thaler
| 13 Nov 2020 Filed Under:
Books, Featured, Reviews

Medb is a novel that draws the reader incrementally toward the mysteries of the human psyche, on its way touching on gender roles, the power of the occult, and the pathologization of difference. It’s a winding, inward journey that begins, fittingly, at …

Synthesis of Yoga Practicum

Organizers:
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
  • Marco Masi
  • Mattéo Needham
| 22 Apr 2020 Readers Underground Group

We are performing an intimate reading of Sri Aurobindo’s Synthesis of Yoga, with a virtual meeting every 2nd and 4th Wednesday until the book is fully read.

Harold Bloom, Heart-Reader Extraordinaire

By
  • Andrew Field
| 21 Oct 2019 Filed Under:
Books, Culture (Transformation), Featured, Poetics (Originary Powers)

What was Harold Bloom? I don’t know, but here is my answer for now.

Visionary Voices Read Aloud: John Milton’s Paradise Lost

Organizer:
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
| 22 Jul 2019 Readers Underground Group

Since Fall 2019, we have been reading works by “visionary poets.” While what constitutes “visionariness” is an open and dynamic question (with intense contemporary relevance) we began our quest to bring visionary voices to life by alternately reading a …

Erin Manning, Saffron (COLLECTIVE FABULATIONS - PROPOSITIONS FOR SOCIAL DREAMING)

The Minor Gesture

Organizer:
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
| 21 Dec 2018 Readers Underground Group

Erin Manning is a friend and colleague who lives in Montreal and heads up the SenseLab at Concordia University. Her book Relationscapes—Movement, Art, Philosophy profoundly influenced my own work at the intersection between the sciences and t …

fdecomite, Stardust

Spheres Reading Group

Organizer: Metapsychosis
| 21 Dec 2018 Readers Underground Group

We are reading all three volumes of philosopher Peter Sloterdijk’s Spheres trilogy: Bubbles, Globes, and Foam. The live-recorded conversations for Bubbles took place between April and August, 2017, and the conversations for Globes took place between October 2017 and May 2018. However, the conversation continues in our forum. A reading schedule for Foam is yet to be determined.

Geek Love

Organizers:
  • Carmen Leilani De Jesus
  • Oliver Rabinovitch
| 21 Dec 2018 Readers Underground Group

Katherine Dunn, the original Freakmother, makes muses of monstrosity in her 1989 masterpiece, about a bizarrely geek-inspired, traveling circus family, born of the stale kernels of boxing reports and advice columns—a celebration of human adap …

The Saddlebag

Organizer: Metapsychosis
| 21 Dec 2018 Readers Underground Group

Bahiyyih Nakhjavani’s poetic prose is a continuation of the Persian tradition of using lush, mystical imagery to awaken the soul. We hope you will join us as we take a journey inward with The Saddlebag.This was the third reading of Readers Underground …

trees in fog, with black bird in foreground

Winter of Origins

Organizers:
  • Jeremy D. Johnson
  • Marco V Morelli
| 21 Dec 2018 Readers Underground Group

This was the second reading of Readers Underground (then #litgeeks). The conversation continues in our forum. In a world racked by vast inequality, climate change, and political upheaval, Gebser’s work so aptly points out that these problems are a …

December of the Dispossessed

December of The Dispossed

Organizer: Metapsychosis
| 20 Dec 2018 Readers Underground Group

This reading took place Dec 1, 2015–Jan 2, 2016, and was the very first Readers Underground (then #litgeeks book club) read together. It served as a beta test of our format, forum software, and other systems. The conversation continues in our forum.

fdecomite, Eclipses

Globes, by Peter Sloterdijk – Conversation 5

By
  • Cosmos
| 13 Apr 2018 Filed Under:
Spheres Reading Group:
Books, Hide from home page, Philosophy (Eteolegeme)

#5 of 6 live conversations on Peter Sloterdijk’s GLOBES: Ch. 7

Gao Xingjian, Inner World, 2007

The Case for Literature, by Gao Xingjian

By
  • Cosmos
| 7 Apr 2018 Filed Under:
Soul Mountain:
Books, Culture (Transformation), Hide from home page, Society (Multitudes), Video

Our reading group on Gao Xingjian’s novel Soul Mountain begins a with a preliminary talk about his Nobel Prize acceptance essay, “The Case for Literature.”

fdecomite, Eclipses

Globes, by Peter Sloterdijk – Conversation 4

By
  • Cosmos
| 9 Feb 2018 Filed Under:
Spheres Reading Group:
Books, Hide from home page, Philosophy (Eteolegeme), Society (Multitudes)

#4 of 6 live conversations on Peter Sloterdijk’s GLOBES: Chs. 5-6 — Readers Underground

fdecomite, Eclipses

Globes, by Peter Sloterdijk – Conversation 3

By
  • Cosmos
| 22 Jan 2018 Filed Under:
Spheres Reading Group:
Books, Hide from home page, Philosophy (Eteolegeme), Society (Multitudes)

#3 of 6 conversations on Peter Sloterdijk’s GLOBES. Chs. 3 – 4

fdecomite, Eclipses

Globes, by Peter Sloterdijk – Conversation 2

By
  • Cosmos
| 19 Dec 2017 Filed Under:
Spheres Reading Group:
Books, Hide from home page, Philosophy (Eteolegeme), Society (Multitudes)

#2 of 6 live conversations on Peter Sloterdijk’s GLOBES: Chs. 1-2

fdecomite, Eclipses

Globes, by Peter Sloterdijk – Conversation 1

By
  • Cosmos
| 17 Nov 2017 Filed Under:
Spheres Reading Group:
Books, Hide from home page, Philosophy (Eteolegeme), Society (Multitudes)

#1 of 6 live conversations on Peter Sloterdijk’s GLOBES: Prologue, Introduction, and other preliminary texts

fdecomite, Eclipses

Globes, by Peter Sloterdijk – Welcome & Overview

By
  • Cosmos
| 11 Oct 2017 Filed Under:
Spheres Reading Group:
Books, Hide from home page, Philosophy (Eteolegeme)

Readers Underground group for Globes, by Peter Sloterdijk – Welcome & Overview page

fdecomite, Stardust

Bubbles, by Peter Sloterdijk – Conversation 9

By
  • Cosmos
| 17 Aug 2017 Filed Under:
Spheres Reading Group:
Books, Philosophy (Eteolegeme)

#9 of 9 live conversations on Peter Sloterdijk’s Bubbles. Topics: Ch. 8, “Closer to Me Than I Am Myself – A Theological Preparation for the Theory of the Shared Inside,” Excursus 10: Matris in gremio – A Mariological Cricket,” and “Transition: On Ecstatic Immanence,” pps. 539–632.

fdecomite, Stardust

Bubbles, by Peter Sloterdijk – Conversation 8

By
  • Cosmos
| 3 Aug 2017 Filed Under:
Spheres Reading Group:
Books, Hide from home page, Philosophy (Eteolegeme)

#8 of 9 live conversations on Peter Sloterdijk’s Bubbles. Topics: Ch. 7, “The Siren Stage – On the First Sonsospheric Alliance,” as well as Excursus 8, “Illiterate Truths – A Note on Oral Fundamentalisms” and Excursus 9, “Where Lacan Starts to Go Wrong,” pps. 477–538.

fdecomite, Stardust

Bubbles, by Peter Sloterdijk – Conversation 7

By
  • Cosmos
| 20 Jul 2017 Filed Under:
Spheres Reading Group:
Books, Hide from home page, Philosophy (Eteolegeme)

#7 of 9 live conversations on Peter Sloterdijk’s Bubbles. Topics: Ch. 6: “Soul Partitions – Angels—Twins—Doubles,” as well as Excursus 6: “Spheric Mourning – On Nobject Loss and the Difficulty of Saying What Is Missing” and Excursus 7: “On the Difference Between and Idiot and an Angel,” pps. 413-476.

fdecomite, Stardust

Bubbles, by Peter Sloterdijk – Conversation 6

By
  • Cosmos
| 6 Jul 2017 Filed Under:
Spheres Reading Group:
Books, Hide from home page, Philosophy (Eteolegeme)

#6 of 9 live conversations on Peter Sloterdijk’s Bubbles. Topics: Ch. 5, “The Primal Companion – Requiem for Discarded Organ” as well as “Excursus 5: The Black Plantation – A Note on Trees of Life and Enlivement Machines,” pages 343–412

fdecomite, Stardust

Bubbles, by Peter Sloterdijk – Conversation 5

By
  • Cosmos
| 22 Jun 2017 Filed Under:
Spheres Reading Group:
Books, Hide from home page, Philosophy (Eteolegeme)

#5 of 9 live conversations on Peter Sloterdijk’s Bubbles. Topics: Ch. 4, “The Retreat Within the Mother: Groundwork for a Negative Gynecology,” along with the following Excursi, pps. 269–342

fdecomite, Stardust

Bubbles, by Peter Sloterdijk – Conversation 4

By
  • Cosmos
| 8 Jun 2017 Filed Under:
Spheres Reading Group:
Books, Hide from home page, Philosophy (Eteolegeme)

#4 of 9 live conversations on Peter Sloterdijk’s Bubbles. Topics: Ch. 3, “Humans in the Magic Circle: On the Intellectual History of the Fascination with Closeness,” and Excursus 1, “Thought Transmission,” pps. 207–268. — Readers Underground

fdecomite, Stardust

Bubbles, by Peter Sloterdijk – Conversation 3

By
  • Cosmos
| 25 May 2017 Filed Under:
Spheres Reading Group:
Books, Hide from home page, Philosophy (Eteolegeme)

#3 of 9 live conversations on Peter Sloterdijk’s Bubbles. Topics: Ch. 2, “Between Faces: On the Appearance of the Interfacial Intimate Sphere,” pps. 139–206. — Readers Underground

fdecomite, Stardust

Bubbles, by Peter Sloterdijk – Conversation 2

By
  • Cosmos
| 11 May 2017 Filed Under:
Spheres Reading Group:
Books, Hide from home page, Philosophy (Eteolegeme)

#2 of 9 live conversations on Peter Sloterdijk’s Bubbles. Topics: Preliminary Reflections and ch. 1, “Heart Operation; Or, On the Eucharistic Excess,” pps. 83–138.

Romare Bearden, Jammin' at the Savoy

Reading Albert Murray in the Age of Trump

By
  • Greg Thomas
| 3 May 2017 Filed Under:
Books, Culture (Transformation), Featured, Reviews

In his near-century of life, Murray confronted race by re-constructing American identity as omni-American—that out of many, we are one.

fdecomite, Stardust

Bubbles, by Peter Sloterdijk – Conversation 1

By
  • Cosmos
| 27 Apr 2017 Filed Under:
Spheres Reading Group:
Books, Hide from home page, Philosophy (Eteolegeme)

#1 of 9 live conversations on Peter Sloterdijk’s Bubbles. Topics: Preliminary Note and Introduction, pps. 9–81.

fdecomite, Stardust

Bubbles, by Peter Sloterdijk – Welcome & Overview

By
  • Cosmos
| 15 Apr 2017 Filed Under:
Spheres Reading Group:
Books, Philosophy (Eteolegeme)

Readers Underground group for Bubbles, by Peter Sloterdijk – Welcome & Overview page

Colin Wilson and “The Robot”

By
  • Gary Lachman
| 14 Sep 2016 Filed Under:
Books, Culture (Transformation), Featured, Longform/Essays, Philosophy (Eteolegeme)

We are the robots. Or rather, we are like people who allow their servants to do everything for them, and subsequently feel they have lost touch with life, but don’t know exactly why.

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    • Masks of Origin
  • Groups
    • See You in Our Dreams – Reading Performance Group and Social Dreaming Experiment
    • Visionary Voices: Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri
    • Synthesis of Yoga Practicum
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    • Chthonia – Worlds of the Dark Feminine
    • Writing Off the Deep End
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