Viral video is a recent development, having first made an impression in the search engines around 2005. Examining Google Trends for ‘Viral Video’ provides a real-world version of a meme adoption pattern. As producers heard about this idea of viral video, more and more came online looking for, as well as producing, viral video. The [...]

Not to mention the countless black metal homages being paid to Cthulhu, Nyarlathotep, and the various other crawly forces at the edge of math. H. P. Lovecraft’s mythos is a complex, interconnected fictional mastermind session that will not die. Return to Page

Much more about using triggers can be found in Kevin Hogan’s book Covert Persuasion and Joseph Sugarman’s book Triggers. Dave Lakhani released his book on Persuasion after we’d completed the manuscript for The Art of Memetics, or we would have included it in our print edition’s bibliography. We include it here to rectify that oversight. [...]

See Spare, A.O. “Automatic Writing” to begin. Spare is one of the most important proto-chaos magicians of the last hundred years, and his artwork lies not fully anchored in this plane. Return to Page