Remi Sussan

just verified (I was not sure) : Sister Ray is also the final song of the Velvet Underground's White light/White Heat album. And it's obviously the piece de resistance (17 mn !)

New preprint with Léo Pio-Lopez:
www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...

"Multi-Scale Longevity: Defeating Aging from Cells to Embodied Human Minds, and the Future of the Species"

a broader view of longevity research.

YouTube video by Music Sphere Metal Machine Music - Lou Reed (1975) (Full Album)

youtu.be/PB1cEyy0fKs?...

👍!

Remember "Visit Port Watson" in Semiotext(e) ? the short story (by "Anonymous", was it Peter Lamborn Wilson himself ?) was simultaneously a reference to Hakim Bey, Burroughsian pirate utopias, and at the same time foreshadowing the future "crypto-libertarian" trend..

Remember "Visit Port Watson" in Semiotext(e) ? the short story (by "Anonymous", was it Peter Lamborn Wilson himself ?) was simultaneously a reference to Hakim Bey, Burroughsian pirate utopias, and at the same time foreshadowing the future "crypto-libertarian" trend..

even older (sorry) : Won't you try/Saturday afternoon Jefferson Airplane (after bathing at Baxter's)
Desolation Row (Bob Dylan, highway 61)
You can't always get what you want (Rolling Stones, Let it bleed)

I found interesting the relationship between D'Olivet and Levi. Not really surprising (D'Olivet was a great influence on Levi's French successors such as Papus), but I didn't know for sure that Levi himself knew d'Olivet. I wonder if Hoëne Wronski was a possible intermediary between the two.

No relationships between Aleister Crowley and Golden Dawn rituals ? Curious, Aleister Crowley being almost a subset of the Golden Dawn...

Are there a lot of MAGA witches in America? I know of course about MAGA ceremonial or chaos magicians (living in France where René Guénon is an idol, this right-wing turn doesn't surprise me), but I thought witches were more or less immune...

Quand j'écoute Justin Sledge avec des sous-titres anglais générés automatiquement par Youtube, "esotericism" est retranscrit en "terrorism"...

Autonomous Zones and the Weird Rise of Authoritarian Anarchism From Hakim Bey’s Temporary Autonomous Zones to today’s crypto-libertarian strongmen, decentralisation has morphed into a volatile mix of deregulation, police power and anti-democratic ambition.

== A DIFFERENT SET OF INTENTIONS ==

“It was the intention of counterculture warriors in the US...to blow up the vague consensus around the warfare state and let the pieces fall wherever they might. I mean, HOW could things get worse? .”

R.U. on the rise of Authoritarian Anarchism

Perfect ! Thanks a lot !

The part two is open access, but not the part one ?

Inside the quixotic team trying to build an entire world in a 20-year-old game Stories and lesson learned from an impossibly large community modding project.

Inside the quixotic team trying to build an entire world in a 20-year-old game arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/...

"Any sufficiently crude magic is indistinguishable from technology" (Cookie Clicker News)
orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/

Meditation And Mindfulness Have a Dark Side We Rarely Talk About Since mindfulness is something you can practice at home for free, it often sounds like the perfect tonic for stress and mental health issues.

Surprise, something efficient can have side effects !
www.sciencealert.com/meditation-a...

The Socialist Roots and Utopian Dreams of Eliphas Lévi - The Thinker's Garden The legendary Eliphas Lévi was originally a socialist radical. We spoke to Dr Julian Strube to learn more about the political origins of the man Helena Blavatsky once described as "the most learned Ka...

Une interview de Julian Strube sur les racines socialistes (au sens du socialisme français d'avant 1848, dit "utopique" par Marx) d'Eliphas Lévi:

thethinkersgarden.com/the-socialis...

Magical AI Grimoire: A Book of Shadows for Contemporary Chaos Magical AI Grimoire: A Book of Shadows for Contemporary Chaos [Davezilla, Carroll, Peter J.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Magical AI Grimoire: A Book of Shadows for Contemporary Chaos

A grimoire of chaos magic dedicated to AI, and prefaced by none other than Peter J. Carroll... I guess it was bound to happen.

www.amazon.com/Magical-AI-G...

Conjuring the Algorithm: Magic, AI, and the Hidden Internet with Dr Shira Chess YouTube video by Angela's Symposium

This Sunday, 2/22 I'll be livestreaming with @drangelapuca.bsky.social about all things dark academia:
www.youtube.com/live/TFx1WDU...

The “Epstein Files” and the anatomy of hidden social networks How secrecy reshapes structure and why its analysis is conditional on the data

I almost never post about politics, but this article intersects with my interests.
manlius.substack.com/p/the-epstei...

Another definition came to me from my mentor Owen Rowley:
"Reality is that which will kill you if ignored long enough."

Between those two there's a lot of room to play

Heraclitus: “The Aeon is a child at play with coloured balls." I reckon most of reality is that sort of play

—Mark Pesce

This’ll sort the Arianists from the Trinitarians

Gamma waves seem increasingly correlated with higher levels of consciousness in meditation, lucid dreaming and even as a possible Alzheimer's treatment, and now altruistic behavior !
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Me holding a copy of my new book THE UNSEEN INTERNET.

Today my newest @mitpress.bsky.social, THE UNSEEN INTERNET, is officially out in the world.

Here’s the argument:
At the dawn of cyberculture a lot of people on online were intentionally doing magic. And now it feels like we’re all kind of doing magic.

I find this quite reassuring.
Me, currently suffering through the Khan Academy math program, and wondering if it's really necessary after all...

Brain train game may help protect against dementia for up to 20 years Adults who played a specific type of cognitive speed training were found to have a dramatically lower risk of developing Alzheimer’s, new research finds.

Seems interesting and promising. But this game (like other brain games, such as the famous "dual n-back") is utterly boring. It seems to me that these kinds of tasks should be integrated seamlessly in real video games, with a real scenario and a real universe.
www.nbcnews.com/health/aging...

Does neurofeedback for meditation work? ⤵️

Dr Justin Woodman Justin’s interests are in speculative fiction, popular culture and racism and extremism within cultures of conspiracy.

Yes, I was impressed by Justin Woodman's thesis ! I just visited his home page and discovered that he has written some recent papers on the topic, I will check them out.
www.gold.ac.uk/global-chang...

I like this sentence! ;-)