THE SEMANTRIX SESSIONS PILOT - SCHEDULE
Week 1:
Tues 20 Sept 19:00-20:15 (BST)
Week 2:
Tues 27 Sept 19:00-20:15 (BST)
Week 3:
Tues 4 Oct 19:30-20:45 (BST)
Week 4:
Mon 10 Oct 19:30-20:45 (BST)
Week 5:
Tues 18 Oct 19:30-20:45 (BST)
Week 6:
Tues 25 Oct 19:30-20:45 (BST)
Week 7:
Tues 1 Nov 19:30-20:45 (GMT)
Week 8:
Mon 7 Nov 19:30-20:45 (GMT)
Introduction:
Metaphors (We Sieve By):
Throwing White Powder on the
Ghost - “Drugs” and the Media:
Psychedelic Platitudes of the 21st
Century:
Language and the Hemispheres:
Translation (Non-indigenous):
Translation II (Indigenous):
K-Talk:
Why are we here? How does Language shape thought?
Categories, Perception, Projection, and Reception;
The biases of English (and the footprints of Plato);
Reanne
The importance of ‘effing’ psychedelics.
’To carry across’; How metaphors are psychoactive;
Is THE MIND A CONTAINER?
Is MEMORY A STOREHOUSE?
Reanne
Is TIME A RIVER? …(do you SEE what I mean?)
Invisible levers: Latent semantic keywords and hyperlinks;
Google rankings that drive stigma, when they could be saving lives;
Ros
Despite the Best Intentions: The pernicious precedents thwarting journalism “conducive to drug policy reform”;
The Master's Tools: How we can psychedelicise mainstream media to transcend the 'War on Drugs’.
THE BRAIN RESET; BOUNDARIES DISSOLVE; CLEANSING THE FILTER; MORE REAL THAN REAL;
OTHER WORLDS and what you BRING BACK?
Reanne
‘Medicine’, ‘healing’ - are these useful terms?
(Taking a moment to remember that fungi are not ‘plant medicine’).
The poesy of sleep deprivation;
Iain McGilchrist’s ‘divided brain’ theory and the right hemisphere’s role in language processing;
Psychedelics and semantic flexibility;
Reanne
Some variations of Scrabble to try at home.
The labyrinths of translation;
Why monolingualism may be an impediment to psychedelic preparation/integration;
Te quiero vs. te amo; Chinese radicals; Japanese count words; gendered languages and the qualities of bridges;
Reanne
γρουσούζης.
The first person plural;
Yarning in Arnhem Land; language without colours; sound-symbolism in Pastaza Quechua;
‘Ekila’: menstruation; blood; taboo; a hunter’s meat; health; and sanity;
Reanne
Linguistic reflections of relationship in nature.
The cultural history of ketamine;
The konvoluted konnotations of ‘dissociation’;
Reanne
Paradox and ambiguity;
Ketaphors.
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Week 9:
Tues 15 Nov 19:30-20:45 (GMT)
Week 10:
Tues 22 Nov 19:30-20:45 (GMT)
Week 11:
Tues 29 Nov 19:30-20:45 (GMT)
Week 12:
Tues 6 Dec 19:30-20:45 (GMT)
Week 13:
Tues 13 Dec 19:30-20:45 (GMT)
Week 14:
Tues 20 Dec 19:30-20:45 (GMT)
Week 15:
Tues 27 Dec 19:30-20:45 (GMT)
Week 16:
Tues 3 Jan 19:30-20:45 (GMT)
Speaking Panpsychist:
The Emperor’s New Drugs:
Language Disruption:
Semantrix in Conversation (Pt. I -
Poetry):
Semantrix in Conversation (Pt. II -
Dreams):
Semantrix in Conversation (Pt. III -
Divination):
Semantrixmas Special:
Psychedelic Consensus and Consent:
A brief introduction to panpsychism;
Alfred North Whitehead’s linguistic journey;
Reanne
The power of lexical defamiliarisation.
Special guests: Dr. Matt Segall & Dr. John Buchanan.
Coffee, cannabis, amphetamines and opiates;
Medicine (administrators and eaters) through the ages;
Ros
Metaphors as packaging and the messages on the packaging;
“Wave” Culture and its moons and tides.
Finnegan’s Wake;
Babelian Babble: Idioglossia and an Unquiry into Epistlemadethemology;
Maya
Oceanic Boundlessness and the collective unconscious Mind at Large;
Neurodivergence, languish, and writing as a psychedelic journey.
The sublime and the splendour of uncertainty;
Poetry on drugs.
Symposium
Special guests: John Constable (with Mark Juhan, Maya Bracknell, Dolly Turing &
Ros Stone)
Symbols, meaning, and the imaginal;
Dreaming with datura;
Lucidity. Symposium
Special guests: Sarah Janes (with Dr. Sam Gandy, Pascal Michael, and Dr. William
Rowlandson)
Eileen Garrett and her ‘unwritten language’;
Using absolutely anything as a divinatory tool; Symposium
Special guests: Julian Vayne (with Adam Malone and Philip Horvath)
Balderdash, bumf, bilge, other balliteratives…
A QUIZ!
Shelves
TBC Ros
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Week 17:
Tues 10 Jan 19:30-20:45 (GMT)
Week 18:
Tues 17 Jan 19:30-20:45 (GMT)
Week 19:
Tues 24 Jan 19:30-20:45 (GMT)
Re-animating Language & Mattering
Words:
Vampire Money, Trojan Horses, and
Venus Fly Traps:
State-based Code Switching:
Followed by The Semantrix Dialogues…
Stammering;
Semantic satiation. Semantic satiation. Semantic satiation;
Reanne
‘Grammars of animacy’;
Icaros.
White Vampires;
The Dangers of Trojan Horses: When linguistic containers become traps;
Ros
Recognising Venus Fly Traps: Reading writing for what it is, and when psychedelic
capitalism shines through.
Wixárika reversals on the road to Wirikuta;
Language-twisting-twisting and the Yaminahua ayahuasqueros;
Reanne
The Mazatecs and the ‘Mushrooms of Language’.
Hypnosis: Milton Erickson’s curious afternoons with Aldous Huxley.
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