Casey Rae’s Apocrypha

film

Oz Fest, Part One

From automotive mayhem to mystical revelation, a tour through Australian New Wave cinema begins.

Shame

Fault Lines

Internalized judgments can be difficult to loosen. Especially when we’ve mistaken them for ourselves.

spooky season

Monster Mash

Two very different movies offer a fitting farewell to spooky season.

AI

Double Exposure

The artificial intelligence boom could collapse just as the technology becomes harder to control. These aren’t separate problems.

grief

Free to Grieve

Living with loss in an age of perpetual uncertainty.

horror

Right Rubbish

Horror produces so much garbage, but we keep watching anyway.

nonduality

Resistance to Resistance

Sometimes doing nothing reveals a lot about our relationship to activity.

The Exorcist III

Infernal Affairs

Rumpled detectives, the limits of reason, and Mike Flanagan’s turn at The Exorcist.

contemplative practice

Private Weather

Our feelings don’t always need explanations, just room to be.

grateful dead

Occult Americana

The Grateful Dead, Harry Smith and the stranger spirits of American music.

technology

Thrilled to Announce

Professional networking for the ongoing techno-apocalypse.

Dracula

Fresh Blood

Audible takes a satisfying bite out of Bram Stoker’s classic.

comedy

Committed to the Bit

Australian comedy and the virtues of taking nonsense seriously.

artificial intelligence

Care Before Code

Artificial minds, mammalian bodies and the conditions for compassion.

play

Pleasure in Presence

On play, curiosity and the feelings we often overlook.

nostalgia

Creature Features

The things we loved as children can still show us who we are.

Roblox

Playing Along

What I learned by joining my daughter inside Roblox.

toxic masculinity

Tending to Toxicity

On anger, acceptance and meeting men where they are.

Green Lantern

On the Spectrum

Contemplating the luminous possibilities of the multiverse’s strangest superhero.

science fiction

Building the Torment Nexus

Science fiction keeps warning us about the future, and we keep proving it right.

anger

Angry at Anger

There’s plenty to be pissed about right now. We don’t have to fight ourselves for feeling it.

television

Main Title

In search of the greatest TV theme song of all time.

William S. Burroughs

Mind Junkies

William S. Burroughs’ language virus has found a strange new host in generative AI.

aging

Prior Worlds

The longer we live, the more our past loses the context that once made it seem solid.

media

Tape Delay

The future arrived, but not exactly as advertised.