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Becoming Las Vegas
Jordan Poletti, January 2026
If you take the raised pedestrian bridge from the Statue of Liberty, over the 8 Lane Freeway, with the Arthurian Castle on your right, you will find yourself, after being handed a number of call cards for limo-drivers, sex workers and magicians, in the M&M World of Las Vegas Boulevard. Nestled neatly into the facade of the MGM Grand, right next to the world’s second largest nightclub, owned and operated by a high-end Asian Fusion franchise, it is near identical to the many M&M worlds across the world. If you don’t think about it for too long you can make yourself believe you are in Leicester Square, Times Square or Shanghai’s People’s Square. You wouldn’t do this, however, because there is no place in the world you would rather be than right here, the centre of everything and nothingness and very little in between. As you walk through this temple of sugar coated chocolate, peanuts and wafer respectively, you will find yourself no longer in view of the entrance from which you arrived and as you stumble past a 10 foot tube of green candy, you will feel the soft patterned carpet of the MGM Grand Casino...
Shadow Work in Ancient Egyptian Magic
Molly Hankins, January 2026
This shew integration process, which Pearce also calls “dissolving our darkness,”has certain thresholds to cross as our consciousness evolves. With each milestone, we can begin using our will to create effects at a global and even galactic scale. When we reach enlightenment, we gain the ability to co-create directly with Source Energy. Over the course of many lifetimes, if we bring enough of our shew out of darkness we can begin working directly with collective consciousness to affect change on a global scale. Symptoms of having crossed this threshold include drastic upticks in synchronicity and seeing ideas we thought were unique to us expressing within the global collective...
The Soul of the Word (1963)
Marian Zazeela, January 2026
The writhing rising out of the word is a dragon devouring itself. Like a cat cleaning her fur the tongue of the word licks its scales with flame and the body of the word ignites and takes the shape of its destruction, which must be perfect and lie perfectly still in the center of the page. If it happens, as it sometimes has, that the flames are not satisfied by the assumption of the word alone, and continue to writhe and curl, then the soul of the word is imprisoned and must be set free. And the flames must be slowly brought to the edge of the page where the cool sea waters will soothe them and let them rest. When the fires die out and only the record of flame remains the soul of the word will be carried out to sea and be born again in a raindrop. While it falls to earth in this form it perceives everything through the distorted lens of water; then as it hits the ground all these preconceptions shatter...
Tetragrammaton on O’Keeffe
O’Keeffe transformed desert planes into abstract color-fields, turned flowers into psychedelic explorations of form and movement, and skulls into eerie motifs of the American Southwest. She remains in the popular imagination an artist so deeply tied to the land of her adopted New Mexico, that to imagine her is to do so in the context of the great American landscape. It is perhaps surprising that towards the end of her life, she turned her focus to the world above. Flying in planes around the world, she gazed out the window and saw new landscapes made from billowing clouds and horizons dancing in shades of blue...
From Cynicism to Sincerity
Noah Gabriel Martin, January 2026
The purpose of the slacker tone is to distance the speaker from what they’re saying, to show that they can’t be found in their words, that the things they say can’t be used to identify them, who they are, or how they feel. The arc of the pitch descends just as each sentence concludes, like a slash crossing it out as it tumbles off their tongue.
That’s not to say that what they’ve said isn’t true, or even that they don’t believe what they’re saying, just that what they’ve said doesn’t matter to them, and the fact that they’ve said it shouldn’t be taken to mean that that’s how they feel. In short, the slacker tone is a disclaimer that alienates sincerity.
Why say things if they don’t care about them? It’s a puzzle, but the greater mystery is why a whole generation might adopt a tone of voice contrived to undercut each expression, signaling that the things we say are of no importance and shouldn’t be taken seriously. What would motivate us to systematically undermine the power of our own speech?
The slacker tone of voice has frequently been conflated with sarcasm. In fact, the quintessential example of slacker voice is from a 1996 episode of the Simpsons — one punk says “Are you being sarcastic, dude?” to another, who responds “I don’t even know anymore.” He doesn’t know, because he hasn’t decided to be sarcastic; to reject as false and even worthy of ridicule the position he’s aping. The slacker voice is more ambiguous than sarcasm, it doesn’t reject the thing being said, thereby actually taking an affirmative position contrary to it; it refuses to take any position at all...
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Thanks for curating such interesting provocative topics. I always learn a lot. ‘Shew integration’ is next 🙏