Holy Fuck, Katherine. That’s far and away the best understanding and evocation of what the internet was that I’ve ever read. (I got my first modem and dialup account in 1986, which is to say that I’ve read them all.) Having now read this, I don’t think it was possible before; I think we’ve been waiting for someone to have grown up online, to have had that experience at the center of their self, before it could be wrapped into those words. Let us know when we can pre-order the book. I’ll be at the front of the line.
You've brilliantly touched on the ethereal with your words, thank you! I've been drawn to folktales and ways humans have described 'the beyond' lately, and I do think it is because our persistent time 'online' shifts our consciousness to the liminal.
Gary Lachman! My man. Damn, you really are doing your best Art Bell. Have you read Lewis Ungit at all? He did a book on hallucinogenics and demons, but he’s got a great substack post on how the Metaverse is hell that intersects nicely with your interview with the QAnon Shaman.
I call it "Selfastalgia" - the distress caused by technologization of the psyche mixing with our human homesickness for an inner world we can never return to.
Have read it twice. Have cried twice. I also think the phone in particular holds fairy tale qualities…. Cannot wait to read your book.
Thank you Gwen
I loved reading this
Holy Fuck, Katherine. That’s far and away the best understanding and evocation of what the internet was that I’ve ever read. (I got my first modem and dialup account in 1986, which is to say that I’ve read them all.) Having now read this, I don’t think it was possible before; I think we’ve been waiting for someone to have grown up online, to have had that experience at the center of their self, before it could be wrapped into those words. Let us know when we can pre-order the book. I’ll be at the front of the line.
Thank you!
You've brilliantly touched on the ethereal with your words, thank you! I've been drawn to folktales and ways humans have described 'the beyond' lately, and I do think it is because our persistent time 'online' shifts our consciousness to the liminal.
Gary Lachman! My man. Damn, you really are doing your best Art Bell. Have you read Lewis Ungit at all? He did a book on hallucinogenics and demons, but he’s got a great substack post on how the Metaverse is hell that intersects nicely with your interview with the QAnon Shaman.
I haven't! Thanks for the rec.
It's all true.
I call it "Selfastalgia" - the distress caused by technologization of the psyche mixing with our human homesickness for an inner world we can never return to.
Now I'm going to become what you've described, American Hypermodernity - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI9UqRZwa50&t=12s
Keep up the great writing Katherine!
PS. Watch The Substance and Lawrence Lek's Sinofuturism if you haven't seen them. :)
This is incredible, and has found its way to me at the perfect time.
“You not addicted. You are cursed.”