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November 2026
Strange Intelligence is an independent publication investigating magic, consciousness, counterculture, hidden systems, and the increasingly unreliable boundary between consensus reality and everything outside it.
Here’s what’s happening behind the curtain.
Building the intelligence network
I’m reaching out to artists, occultists, historians, philosophers, musicians, and other professional trespassers of intellectual boundaries.
The experiment is simple: ask one unusually difficult question, invite a short recorded answer, and see what emerges.
Historian Mike Jay, author of The Influencing Machine, was the first to respond, examining what happens when yesterday’s psychiatric delusions begin resembling tomorrow’s technological ambitions.
More voices are being recruited.
Assembling the publication
The longer-term ambition is a printed zine: a physical artifact for ideas that don’t sit comfortably inside algorithms, academic journals, or polite conversation.
Expect essays, interviews, visual provocations, historical excavations, and investigations into the machinery that manufactures reality.
The editorial territory includes occultism, forbidden knowledge, cultural engineering, fringe science, artistic experimentation, and the curious ways yesterday’s heresies become tomorrow’s institutions.
Conducting small experiments
On Bluesky and Mastodon, I’m testing questions, polls, short interviews, and fragments of cultural intelligence.
I’m particularly interested in what people believe when there isn’t an obvious correct answer, and what those beliefs reveal about the systems they inhabit.
Not everything needs to become content. Some things deserve to remain strange.
Currently investigating
- Chaos magic and its relationship with contemporary culture.
- The occult history of technology and technological fantasies of transcendence.
- Ritual objects, museums, and what happens when living traditions become exhibits.
- The manufacture of consensus reality.
- Counterculture’s uncomfortable relationship with commerce and power.
- The boundaries between invention, revelation, delusion, and discovery.
The operating principle
Strange Intelligence isn’t interested in proving that everything is connected.
It’s interested in discovering which connections are real, which are manufactured, and who benefits when nobody can tell the difference.
The investigation is ongoing.
Last updated: November 3, 2026.