Richard Doyle earned his Ph.D. in Rhetoric at UC Berkeley. He was the Mellon Post Doctoral Fellow in History and Social Science of the Life Sciences at MIT in 1993. Professor of Rhetoric, Doyle holds appointments in English, Science Technology & Society and the College of Information Science and Technology at Penn State University and was Visiting Associate Professor at UC Berkeley, Department of Rhetoric in 2003.
Doyle teaches courses in the history and rhetoric of emerging technosciences - sustainability, space colonization, biotechnology, nanotechnology, psychedelic science, information technologies, biometrics - and the cultural and literary contexts from which they sprout. Professor Doyle has published two books: On Beyond Living: Rhetorical Transformations of the Life Sciences(Stanford, 1997) and Wetwares:Experiments in PostVital Living( Minnesota, 2003) - in a putative trilogy about emerging transhuman knowledges. These knowledges and practices, linked to molecular biology, artificial life, nanotechnology, psychedelic and information technologies render the experiential distinctions between living systems and machines frequently dubious and often indiscernible. This excited and confused rhetorical membrane between humans and an informational universe nonetheless broadcasts a clear message: humans, in co-evolution with the technical matrices transforming the planet, find themselves in an evolutionary ecology that is as urgent as it is experimental.
Continuing his collaborative work on the “transhuman imperative”, Doyle ( aka mobius) has now completed the trilogy with a scholarly book about archaic and contemporary psychedelic media technologies and the evolution of mind: The Ecodelic Hypothesis: Plants, Rhetoric and the Evolution of The Noösphere, currently in press with University of Washington. Other current projects include a book, Admixtures: Dialogues After Genomics with Anthropologist Mark Shriver. The Admixtures Project has grown The Penn State Center for Altered Consciousness, currently investigating the genetics and phenomenology of legally altered consciousness with the help of a flotation tank.
A Somewhat Recent Text - __Divining Ayahuasca__Discourse, 27.1 (Winter 2005), pp. 6–33. Download, read, respond....
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Feet to the Noosphere, or "The Noosphere Is!" March 22, 2009
Radio Free Noosphere - bootstrapping collective consciousness through micromedia, featured on Feet to the Fire, Alternative Talk Radio for the Times.
\"Two Hours of Nothin'\" As is His Want, mobius talks about Nothing for Two Hours, featured on Feet to the Fire, Alternative Talk Radio for the Times.
\"Radio Free Consciousness\" mobius talk radio on consciousness & psychedelics
Just Say Yes to The Noösphere - a talk at Stanford University Law School
Psychedelics R Information Technologies A talk at Rice University Computer and Information Technology Institute
Ayahuasca Montage: Why Psychonauts Should (and Do) Interrupt Themselves Continually - A talk given to the Society for Literature, Science and Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 2006.
A Transmission From the Vast Active Living Intelligent System From Da Grasshopper Lies Heavy, A spoken Wyrd Opera
Biometrics and the Human/Plant Interface - A talk given at the 'Beyond Biopolitics' symposium at the Center for the Study of Women and Society, CUNY Graduate Center of New York, March 2006.
Omphalosophia - Towards a Copenhagen Interpretation of Living Systems in Museums, With Special Reference to John Lilly, presented in telepresence to Copenhagen
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Comments (2)
Heresiarch said
at 9:11 pm on Sep 27, 2006
just to lend a link to Leary revivalism: http://www.starlarvae.org/Star_Larvae_Addendum_Exo-Psychology_Revisited.html
flobius said
at 8:25 am on Oct 18, 2006
checkin' it, may fold into RecentlyBrowsedLinks
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