Description
Book SynopsisWeaves the evolutionary theory of sexual selection and the study of rhetoric together with the science and literature of psychedelic drugs
Trade Review". . . offer[s] unique insights into the pleasures and desires that animate our relationships . . . The diverse source material Doyle uses serves as a model for the kind of commons he celebrates. He offers wonderfully attentive readings of trip reports from famous users . . ."
-- Jenna Supp-Montgomerie * Women's Studies Quarterly *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction | Glimpsing the Peacock Angel
1. The Flowers of Perception: Trip Reports, Stigmergy, and the Nth Person Plural
2. Rhetorical Mycelium: Psychedelics as Eloquence Adjuncts?
3. Rhetorical Adjuncts and the Evolution of Rhetoric: Darwin’s Impassioned Speech
4. LSDNA : Creative Problem Solving, Consciousness Expansion, and the Emergence of Biotechnology
5. Hyperbolic: Divining Ayahuasca
6. The Transgenic Involution
7. From Zero to One: Metaprogramming Noise, with Special Reference to Plant Intelligence
Epilogue: In Darwin’s Dreams
Notes
References
Index
