I don’t know if you include replies from readers in the Prophet, but I’d like to respond to Yemanja’s article On the edge of the real: exploring the limits of experience in the issue of Saturday, August 10th. From the authorities that are listed, which tell us information and expect us to believe it, I […]
The internet is dramatically changing human culture. Like the iron age and the stone age before it, many are describing our times as the ‘information age’ (see Manuel Castells) where our ability to share information at an unprecedented scale is transforming the shape of societies worldwide.
The universe we live in is a baffling and mysterious place. While science, religion, and politics have all invariably tried to provide answers to the big questions that surround the mysteries of life, for many these have been insufficient to describe the world they experience.
Ever since the 60s freak culture has cast a powerful critique against the mainstream system – its consumerism, individualism, prohibitionism, and the mechanisms which make us pawns in institutional dominion. The protests and social resistance movements that have raged since then have been inevitably quashed by the dominators, the elites and fat cats that ensure […]
Technology has dramatically changed our lives as human beings. Especially in the 20th century, new technologies and inventions have transformed our experience of the world, and our capacity to act within it. Yet while many people see these changes as making us more distant from nature and each other, we can also see the new […]
THE DANCEFLOOR AS COLLABORATIVE SOCIAL EXPERIMENT – The dancefloor is a diverse and vivacious collaboration – of DJs and dancers, speakers and sound men, UV lights and fluoro T-shirts, psychedelic music and good dancing shoes.
RAJA RAM – Trance music has been going on from the beginning of mankind – since the Caveman started playing with marbles and rubbing two sticks together, then finally hearing the wind blowing through the reeds by the river bank… And then he heard the sound… And started beating out time on animal skins and […]
