David Drexler

During the past few years, I've been publishing an illustrated zine called Out of Control-a journal of abiotic vampirism. Each issue deals in some way with the idea of ascribing agency or active, malicious, exploitive intent to things generally considered non-living, such as technology or social systems.

The first issue explores the suspiciously common paranoid schizophrenic belief that machines are being used to torture and spy on the patient. It turns out that this delusion has a surprisingly long history, dating back at least to the very early 19th century. I follow the development of this particular delusion and correlate it with the intrusion of schizophrenic thought into consensus reality during the past 200 years. Here I develop my idea that technology itself is an active, living, viral force which has parasitized humans for its own purposes of control and endless proliferation.

The second issue is an investigation of the horrific subject of compulsive hoarding, and the general human tendency to amass risible quantities of useless extruded plastic crap. People seem to enjoy this issue most.

In the final issue, I investigate parasitism as one of the defining dynamics of the interactions of complex systems. Parasitism dominates the Biological, Human, Astral and Divine realms. Gods are shown to be dull, parasitic entities from the lower astral that have colonized humanity. This fairly massive document is really my final word on what I think is basically going on in this world of ours.

Many people find these writings a bit difficult to get through, perhaps due to my penchant for Johnsonian sentence structure and obscure terminology, not to mention the loathsome and repellant nature of the subject matter. But I hope you will at least have a look. Here are the results of one mind's efforts to figure out the nature of our reality.

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