Semantrix Pilot (Schedule)

THE SEMANTRIX SESSIONS PILOT - SCHEDULE
Week 1: Why are we here? How does Language shape thought?

Categories, Perception, Projection, and Reception;
Tues 20 Sept 19:00-20:15 (BST) Introduction: The biases of English (and the footprints of Plato);
Reanne
The importance of ‘effing’ psychedelics.
Week 2: ’To carry across’; How metaphors are psychoactive;

Is THE MIND A CONTAINER?
Tues 27 Sept 19:00-20:15 (BST) Metaphors (We Sieve By): Is MEMORY A STOREHOUSE?
Reanne
Is TIME A RIVER? …(do you SEE what I mean?)
Invisible levers: Latent semantic keywords and hyperlinks;

Week 3: Throwing White Powder on the Google rankings that drive stigma, when they could be saving lives;
Ros
Tues 4 Oct 19:30-20:45 (BST) Ghost - “Drugs” and the Media: Despite the Best Intentions: The pernicious precedents thwarting journalism “conducive to drug policy reform”;
The Master's Tools: How we can psychedelicise mainstream media to transcend the 'War on Drugs’.
THE BRAIN RESET; BOUNDARIES DISSOLVE; CLEANSING THE FILTER; MORE REAL THAN REAL;
Week 4: Psychedelic Platitudes of the 21st OTHER WORLDS and what you BRING BACK?
Reanne
Mon 10 Oct 19:30-20:45 (BST) Century: ‘Medicine’, ‘healing’ - are these useful terms?
(Taking a moment to remember that fungi are not ‘plant medicine’).
Week 5: The poesy of sleep deprivation;

Iain McGilchrist’s ‘divided brain’ theory and the right hemisphere’s role in language processing;
Tues 18 Oct 19:30-20:45 (BST) Language and the Hemispheres: Psychedelics and semantic flexibility;
Reanne
Some variations of Scrabble to try at home.
Week 6: The labyrinths of translation;

Why monolingualism may be an impediment to psychedelic preparation/integration;
Tues 25 Oct 19:30-20:45 (BST) Translation (Non-indigenous): Te quiero vs. te amo; Chinese radicals; Japanese count words; gendered languages and the qualities of bridges;
Reanne
γρουσούζης.
Week 7: The first person plural;

Yarning in Arnhem Land; language without colours; sound-symbolism in Pastaza Quechua;
Tues 1 Nov 19:30-20:45 (GMT) Translation II (Indigenous): ‘Ekila’: menstruation; blood; taboo; a hunter’s meat; health; and sanity;
Reanne
Linguistic reflections of relationship in nature.
The cultural history of ketamine;

Week 8: K-Talk:
The konvoluted konnotations of ‘dissociation’;
Reanne
Paradox and ambiguity;
Mon 7 Nov 19:30-20:45 (GMT) Ketaphors.
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A brief introduction to panpsychism;
Week 9: Speaking Panpsychist: Alfred North Whitehead’s linguistic journey;
Reanne
The power of lexical defamiliarisation.
Tues 15 Nov 19:30-20:45 (GMT)
Special guests: Dr. Matt Segall & Dr. John Buchanan.
Coffee, cannabis, amphetamines and opiates;

Week 10: The Emperor’s New Drugs:
Medicine (administrators and eaters) through the ages;
Ros
Metaphors as packaging and the messages on the packaging;
Tues 22 Nov 19:30-20:45 (GMT) “Wave” Culture and its moons and tides.
Finnegan’s Wake;
Week 11: Language Disruption:
Babelian Babble: Idioglossia and an Unquiry into Epistlemadethemology;
Maya
Oceanic Boundlessness and the collective unconscious Mind at Large;
Tues 29 Nov 19:30-20:45 (GMT) Neurodivergence, languish, and writing as a psychedelic journey.
Week 12: Semantrix in Conversation (Pt. I -

The sublime and the splendour of uncertainty;
Poetry on drugs.
Tues 6 Dec 19:30-20:45 (GMT) Symposium
Poetry): Special guests: John Constable (with Mark Juhan, Maya Bracknell, Dolly Turing &
Ros Stone)
Symbols, meaning, and the imaginal;

Week 13: Semantrix in Conversation (Pt. II - Dreaming with datura;
Tues 13 Dec 19:30-20:45 (GMT) Lucidity. Symposium
Dreams): Special guests: Sarah Janes (with Dr. Sam Gandy, Pascal Michael, and Dr. William
Rowlandson)
Week 14: Semantrix in Conversation (Pt. III - Eileen Garrett and her ‘unwritten language’;
Tues 20 Dec 19:30-20:45 (GMT) Using absolutely anything as a divinatory tool; Symposium
Divination): Special guests: Julian Vayne (with Adam Malone and Philip Horvath)
Week 15: Balderdash, bumf, bilge, other balliteratives…

Tues 27 Dec 19:30-20:45 (GMT) Semantrixmas Special: A QUIZ!
Shelves
Week 16:
Tues 3 Jan 19:30-20:45 (GMT) Psychedelic Consensus and Consent: TBC Ros
Stammering;
Week 17: Re-animating Language & Mattering Semantic satiation. Semantic satiation. Semantic satiation;
Reanne
Tues 10 Jan 19:30-20:45 (GMT) Words: ‘Grammars of animacy’;
Icaros.
White Vampires;
Week 18: Vampire Money, Trojan Horses, and The Dangers of Trojan Horses: When linguistic containers become traps;
Ros
Tues 17 Jan 19:30-20:45 (GMT) Venus Fly Traps: Recognising Venus Fly Traps: Reading writing for what it is, and when psychedelic
capitalism shines through.
Wixárika reversals on the road to Wirikuta;

Week 19: State-based Code Switching:
Language-twisting-twisting and the Yaminahua ayahuasqueros;
Reanne
Tues 24 Jan 19:30-20:45 (GMT) The Mazatecs and the ‘Mushrooms of Language’.
Hypnosis: Milton Erickson’s curious afternoons with Aldous Huxley.
Followed by The Semantrix Dialogues…

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THE SEMANTRIX SESSIONS PILOT - SCHEDULE

Week 1: Why are we here? How does Language shape thought?

Week 2: ’To carry across’; How metaphors are psychoactive;

Invisible levers: Latent semantic keywords and hyperlinks;

Week 5: The poesy of sleep deprivation;

Week 6: The labyrinths of translation;

Week 7: The first person plural;

The cultural history of ketamine;

Coffee, cannabis, amphetamines and opiates;

Week 12: Semantrix in Conversation (Pt. I -

Symbols, meaning, and the imaginal;

Week 15: Balderdash, bumf, bilge, other balliteratives…

Wixárika reversals on the road to Wirikuta;

Followed by The Semantrix Dialogues…

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