Psychotropics
Invention and the tekhnēcolor labcoat: Scientific history’s psychotropic trace

Invention and the tekhnēcolor labcoat: Scientific history’s psychotropic trace

This paper examines how LSD — little understood or examined by contemporary science, and almost always comprehended through the lens of its ignominious history — resides interstitially between an unpotentiated tekhnē and an oblique fabula.
Assaying a contemporary epistemology of the ‘self-experiment’ with Neil Burger’s Limitless

Assaying a contemporary epistemology of the ‘self-experiment’ with Neil Burger’s Limitless

This article serves as a summary and review of Neil Burger's Limitless. It also considers the film's central signifier, NZT-48, a neuro-enhancing drug (nootropic) and a true pharmakon whose positive effects coextend with its tendency to induce deliriant hallucinations.