The Dark Continent III

I. The Dark Continent

Chemical Governance, Pharmaceutical Theatre & Sacred Technologies — the plates series

Glandula Politicus — The Substance Receptors of Power

The Last Supper of the Post-Truth Age — A Chemical Eucharist (i)

The Last Supper — The Mother Complex at the Carving Table (ii)

The Last Supper — First: Make them crave. Second: Make them fear. (iii)

The Last Supper — I chose the tree. Not the feast. (iv)

The Last Supper — Awakening / Continue Buffet (v)

Entertainment-Pharmaceutical Complex — Нет снега, нет шоу

Modern Thought Leader Dissection — Patient presents with messiah complex, historical amnesia, and chemical dependency

Politicus Cainus — The Modern Statesman's Elixir. No Snow, No Show.

Dark Continent — Comparative Anatomy. The real dark continent was Freud's ethics.

Architecture of Commodified Intimacy — Grievance Economy / Patriarchy Re-branded (i)

Grievance Economy Chemistry Set — Patriarchy Rebrand: From Raw Domination to Pharmaceutical-Grade Resentment

Chemical Colonisation — From African Eschatology to Western Prescription

The Male Gaze Laboratory — Dugin Prophecy / Algorithmi / Pulvis Albus / Coca Rosa

Psycho-Mechanics of Desire — The Green Cigarette Transformation (i)

The Modern Suffragette — The cage keeps changing shape. First the cigarette. Now the coping mechanism.

Historical Infusion Ward — Treatment of Influential Minds. Freud. Hitler. Mao. Stalin. Churchill.

Architecture of Commodified Intimacy — Childhood Trauma / Content Heat / Loneliness Pandemic (ii)

II. Anthropologia Toxica — 9 Plates

The Final Folio — alchemical succession, historical infusion, philosophical fragments & the chest in the mud

II.i Historical Infusion Ward — Alchemical Succession

II.ii Historical Infusion Ward — Diagnosis Chart

II.iii Anthropologia Toxica — The Final Folio (i)

II.iv Anthropologia Toxica — The Final Folio (ii)

II.v Anthropologia Toxica — The Final Folio (iii)

II.vi Anthropologia Toxica — The Final Folio (iv)

II.vii The Antidote — The Chest in the Mud (i)

II.viii The Antidote — What's in the Box? (ii)

II.ix The Antidote — Remembering the Elves (iii)

III. Treatment of Influential Minds — 7 Plates

Ward 7 — Chemical Lineage Charts. From cocaine to culture. From Freud's drip apparatus to the prophet of brand synergy.

III.i Chemical Lineage — Alchemical Succession (i)

III.ii Chemical Lineage — Alchemical Succession (ii)

III.iii Chemical Lineage — Alchemical Succession (iii)

III.iv Chemical Lineage — The Founders (iv)

III.v Chemical Lineage — Legacy Gauge (v)

III.vi Chemical Lineage — Nurse's Notes (vi)

III.vii Chemical Lineage — The Vertical Flow (vii)

IV. The Heretic's Lexicon — 4 Plates

Vocabula Periculosa — every word they invented to describe the people who refused to stop asking questions

IV.i Latinae Ecclesiasticae — Vocabula Periculosa

IV.ii Moderno / Accademico & Italiano Classico (i)

IV.iii Moderno / Accademico & Italiano Classico (ii)

IV.iv Theological & Pejorative / Colloquial

V. Anatomia Imperii Morientis — 9 Plates

Machina Nationalistica — the internal mechanics of a dying empire. Da Vinci-style engineering schematics of the nationalist suicide device.

V.i The Nationalist Engine — Overview

V.ii Machina Nationalistica — Side View

V.iii Cross-Section — Cranium Tyranni

V.iv Dissipator Aestheticus — The Heat Sink

V.v The Objectivity Myth — Genocide Output

V.vi The Labour Fallacy — Das Ideal vs Die Realität

V.vii War Economy — Krupp Armaments

V.viii Fuel Intake — Absorptio Ex Furtis & Debiti

V.ix The Hate Furnace — Blueprint Inverted

VI. Homo Spectatus — 12 Plates

The Great Forgetting — when we stopped being and started watching. From communion to representation to the spectator trap.

VI.i Communion / Chorus / Spectators

VI.ii Three Brains — The Invention of Pretending

VI.iii Unitas Animae — Three Consciousness States

VI.iv Timeline of Disconnection

VI.v The Age of Representation — Detail

VI.vi The Age of Representation — Dormant Receptors

VI.vii The Breach — Thespis's Innovation, c.534 BCE

VI.viii PRIMUM — The Age of Resonance

VI.ix Cetacean Nation Never Invented Theatre

VI.x Before: The Age of Resonance (i)

VI.xi Before: The Age of Resonance (ii)

VI.xii Before: The Age of Resonance (iii)

VII. Hypatia of Alexandria — 5 Plates

To Question is to Pray. The answer is in the space between the letters where the light gets in.

VII.i Hypatia — Mathematica, Astronomia, Alchemia

VII.ii Hypatia of Alexandria — Philosophia & Alchemia

VII.iii Hypatia — Sphaera Armillaris, Formulae Alchemicae

VII.iv Hypatia — Astronomia, Mathematica, Alchymia

VII.v Hypatia — Orbis Coelestis, Geometria Magna

VIII. Bogaine — The Root of Remembering — 9 Plates

Tabernanthe iboga — from Bwiti origins through colonial suppression to Lotsof's 1962 discovery. The medicine is in the foundation, not the flower.

VIII.i Bogaine — Historical Timeline (i)

VIII.ii Bogaine — Three-Era Layout (ii)

VIII.iii Tabernanthe iboga — Botanical Plate

VIII.iv Ibogaine Pharmacology — Opioid Receptors & Cardiac Effects

VIII.v The Medicine is in the Foundation

VIII.vi Root / Leaf / Rings / Seed — Four Studies

VIII.vii The Journey of Iboga — Sacred Medicine Through Time

VIII.viii Iboga: A Journey Through Time

VIII.ix Bwiti Practice — Tradition, Harvest & Cardiac Screening

IX. The Ceremony — 10 Plates

A Ceremonial Horror — the Sacred Assembly, the purge, the altar, the participants. What they came to lose is not what they found.

IX.i Bwiti Ceremony — Time-Lapse Sequence (i)

IX.ii Bwiti Ceremony — Time-Lapse Sequence (ii)

IX.iii Bwiti Ceremony — Time-Lapse Sequence (iii)

IX.iv Bwiti Ceremony — Time-Lapse Sequence (iv)

IX.v The Sacred Assembly — Altar, Mattresses, Candlelight (i)

IX.vi The Sacred Assembly — Altar, Mattresses, Candlelight (ii)

IX.vii The Purge of the Privileged

IX.viii Altar as Character

IX.ix Participants' Portraits

IX.x Chemical Kevin's Dragon