August 28 Rhetoric as a toolbox for asignification; thriving with exteriority

September 4 Merlin Donald and the distributed model of cognition, D&G rhizome

September 11 On some Implications of Reading "Rhizome" Donald redux, Guattari: "Machinic Heterogenesis" and "The Ecosophic Object"

September 18 "Death needs time for what it kills to grow in" Tooling exteriority with Darwin

Darwin, The Origin of Species, CHAPTER IV NATURAL SELECTION; OR THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST

Darwin, The Descent of Man

( focus on chapters VIII, XIII and XIX)

September 25 Charles Darwin, The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals; "Faciality" A Thousand Plateaus

October 2 Distributed Corporealities:"How do you make yourself a body without organs?"; Begin Michaux, Miserable Miracle

October 9 Becoming a Line: Michaux, Miserable Miracle

October 16 "I Had to Struggle to Speak Intelligibly": Albert Hofmann's Writing Experiment,LSD: My Problem Child

October 23 "Informatic Prayer: Psychedelia and the Discourse of Information"The Psychedelic Experience

October 30 "Psychedelic Pragmatics:Creativity and Problem Solving with LSD"Psychedelic Agents and Creative Problem Solving: A Pilot Study

Performance of a Graphic Artist Under the Influence of Mescaline

LSD: The Problem Solving Psychedelic

November 6 "PCR, My Problem Child" - Mullis, "Dancing Naked"(xerox);Khorana, H.G. et al. "Polynucleotide Synthesis and the Genetic Code", Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Quantitative Biology, 31, (xerox)Rabinow, Making PCR

November 13 "Rhetorical Mushrooms, or Colonizing and Decolonizing Consciousness" - Gordon WassonSeeking the Magic Mushroom

BBC Interview, Psychedelic Science, with Mullis discussion of LSD and PCR Psychedelic Science

Henry MunnThe Mushrooms of Language

November 20 "Psychedelic Science and the Problem of the Report" Stanley KrippnerThe Effects of Psychedelic Experience on Language Functioning

LedaTrip Reports: The Case of Ayahuasca

November 27 and December 4 "Shulgin: Toward a Distributed Technoscience?"