The Internet as the Astral Plane. The Internet as Fairyland

from the Philosophical Research Society panel with Tara Isabella Burton, MemeAnalysis, and Gary Lachman

For years—truly years and years and years and years and years and years—I’ve been working on a single insight: “the Internet” behaves less like a tool and more like a portal, a separate plane of existence layered atop everyday life. In other words, it’s the astral plane, or Fairyland. The same charms, rituals, and yes, old superstitions that guide trave…