Visualizing the Language of Drug Experience

By melody | November 26th, 2012 | 7

We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like “I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive….” And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge bats, all swooping [...]

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Reality, that seamless stream

By melody | September 19th, 2012 | 1

“The influence, upon our thinking, of a comprehensive scientific theory, or of some other general point of view, goes much deeper than is admitted by those who would regard it as a convenient scheme for the ordering of facts only. …scientific theories are ways of looking at the world; and their adoption affects our general [...]

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The Launch of the Psychotronic Girl

By melody | July 5th, 2011 |

“Electricité, électronique, cybernétique‥et ensuite?‥Proposons Psychotronique, utilisation de la pensée et de la volonté.” (Toute La Radio, N° 192 du 12 janvier 1955.) Welcome to The Psychotronic Girl, a freshly-minted blog on the science and politics of language. What does it all mean? In English, psychotronic is a word that has its origin in 1980′s B-film [...]

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