Adam Rothstein
How to Conjure Friends and Influence Yourself
A free 10-day online course in chaos magick aims to change your life and evolve the way we talk and think about magick online.
What Sci-Fi Gets Wrong, Design Fiction Could Get Right
Waving our hands at the future, from 'Minority Report,' to tablets, to drones in our faces.
How the Most Extreme Trips on Erowid Transformed Modern Drug Culture
How Erowid harnessed the communitarian spirit of the early web to change the way we use and understand drugs.
The Original Mobile App Was Made of Paper
To understand modern mobile apps, we need to turn to their centuries-old grandparent: the volvelle.
Meet the Artists/Occultists Channeling the Death of Monsanto
Coyotel Church is magically cutting the cord—and the flesh—from corporations.
The Internet Looks Like Nothing
We visualize the internet like a vast circuit board, but the stories that make up the internet’s infrastructure have much more depth than a simple diagram.
Digging Up the Seedy Roots of the Surveillance Noir
The 1970s surveillance noir explored the man against the system, predicting that reporters would deliver us from the government’s transgressions. Today, the climate that birthed it has returned.
Conjuring the Internet: Art and Contemporary Magic
A look inside attempts to form community, cope, and learn about history and ourselves through art and crowdsourced patronage.
[First Look] Inside This Year's Burning Man Temple
The Dreamers Guild's 'Temple of Promise' design depicts basic human needs through outlandish architecture.
The Cities Science Fiction Built
When we look at the future city in SF film, we are really looking at our own city. We just don’t know it yet.