Like the community of psionic machine enthusiasts that developed in and around Astounding Science Fiction (and later, Analog) in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, but more distributed and accessible. I would love to see online, collaborative communities emerge around this sort of thing. The idea is not new to me-I have been mulling it for a few years now-but as my Automagica Theoretica course comes to its official end this week, I am thinking much more about it. I have been reading The Secret Art: A Brief History of Radionic Technology for the Creative Individual, which makes a case for art as radionics (you can read the book’s excellent intro, here), and musing about how open-source and accessible development tools such as Processing and Arduino could facilitate a new era of designs in radionic and psionic machines.
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