Month: September 2023

Talk: Jason Day, Psychedelic Theory: Attention & Experience

In this episode of YBOS, Zarmeen speaks with PhD candidate Jason Day about his thesis work which looks to understand the phenomenology of the psychedelic experience. Jason theorizes a change in attention as a crucial aspect of the psychedelic experience. In this episode he explains his theory and also introduces a more controversial take on … Read moreTalk: Jason Day, Psychedelic Theory: Attention & Experience

(Article) Lucie Mercier, The Translatability of Experience: On Fanon’s Language Puzzle

Fanon considered that colonial alienation produced multiple forms of relational pathologies, many of which expressed themselves in and through blockages in communication rather than through explicit conflict. Exposing the role of language as a vector of racial violence and colonial oppression, Fanon also presented it as a potentially revolutionary medium of decolonization. The article has … Read more(Article) Lucie Mercier, The Translatability of Experience: On Fanon’s Language Puzzle