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Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
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Document Type: | Book |
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Richard Doyle |
ISBN: | 9780295990941 0295990945 9780295990958 0295990953 |
OCLC Number: | 682897080 |
Description: | ix. 358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction: glimpsing the peacock angel -- The flowers of perception: trip reports, stigmergy, and the Nth person plural -- Rhetorical Mycelium: psychedelics as eloquence adjuncts? -- Rhetorical adjuncts and the evolution of rhetoric: Darwin's impassioned speech -- LSDNA: creative problem solving, consciousness expansion, and the emergence of biotechnology -- Hyperbolic: divining Ayahuasca -- The transgenic involution -- From zero to one: metaprogramming noise, with special reference to plant intelligence -- Epilogue: in Darwin's dreams. |
Series Title: | In vivo (Seattle, Wash.) |
Responsibility: | Richard Doyle. |
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Weaves the evolutionary theory of sexual selection and the study of rhetoric together with the science and literature of psychedelic drugs
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. . . offer[s] unique insights into the pleasures and desires that animate our relationships . . . The diverse source material Doyle uses serves as a model for the kind of commons he celebrates. He offers wonderfully attentive readings of trip reports from famous users . . . -- Jenna Supp-Montgomerie * Women's Studies Quarterly * Read more...
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