Erik Davis

Apr 17, 2024 | slate.com | Erik Davis

Skip to the content History This piece was originally published by the MIT Press Reader and has been republished here with permission. The image that follows is not of actual Kodak film but rather of a clever and gently satiric stealth packaging for underground LSD made by the New Yorker Eric Ghost—aka Eric Brown—in 1968. Ghost first took LSD in the Lower East Side around 1965, after a peripatetic life of military service, armed robbery, and prison.

Mar 4, 2024 | flipboard.com | Erik Davis

The Institute of Illegal Images (III) is housed in a dilapidated shotgun Victorian in San Francisco’s Mission District, which also happens to be the home of a gentleman named Mark McCloud. The shades are always drawn; the stairs are rotting; the door is peppered with stickers declaring various …

Oct 1, 2023 | thereader.mitpress.mit.edu | Erik Davis |Geoffrey Engelstein |David Nye |Marc Wittmann

BeeLine Reader uses subtle color gradients to help you read more efficiently. Listen to this articleBrought to you by Curio, an MIT Press partner... As far as I can make out, the term “doomscrolling” started making the rounds in 2019, and became, for obvious reasons, far more infectious in 2020. We’ve had two more years of pandemic, and a yearish of whatever this next thing we are in is, and the term does not seem to be losing much luster.