Who the hell
is Eliott Edge?
Eliott Edge is an international speaker, multidisciplinary artist, journalist, humorist, futurist, psychonaut, and author of ‘3 Essays on Virtual Reality: Civilization, Overlords, and Escape.’
Edge has appeared in Medium, Disinformation, Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, The University of Melbourne, The Museum of Computer Arts, Stevens Institute of Technology, Anthology Film Archives, VRTO, and The C.G. Jung Center. He is on the advisory board of The Lifeboat Foundation, a member of Das Unbehagen, the founder of EducatingEarth.
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REVIEWS
“Wow! This is fantastic. I expected some essays about the promise of virtual reality (the headsets) and instead got a real, real, real reality. Edge actually took the effort to cite how everything is virtual reality! Religion (nice!), language (thank you!), and then our own conception of ourselves.
Eliott argues that we all live in virtual worlds, starting with language, written material and religion, and that virtual reality is core to our humanity. Our institutions are ultimately projections that create virtual worlds, whose power exists because we believe in and participate in their propagation. This collection of essays is a short and fascinating introspection into closely held concepts of virtual reality and our own identity as a species.”
Amber Case
"Terence McKenna would have loved Eliott Edge and his plan for escape."
"Eliott Edge reminds me of myself, 25 years ago, when I’d hang out with Timothy Leary, Terence McKenna and Robert Anton Wilson or R.U. Sirius and ponder the wildest possibilities for the emerging digital landscape."
Douglas Rushkoff
"The idea that our most cherished beliefs and deeply held 'truths' are simply symbolic 'virtual realities' is nothing less than an ontological awakening - a realization that we experience reality through a tightly woven matrix of perception and belief. This book shows how deep the rabbit hole goes."
Jason Silva
"Eliott Edge is a vital voice offering a fresh perspective on how we conceptualize our history as well as our future; concepts applicable to the full breadth of human experience from the individual to society to humankind as a whole."
Vanessa Sinclair, Psy.D
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Friends far and wide have seen the light of Overlords, Civilization, and Escape
LECTURES & Speaking
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• Ethics and Artificial Intelligence
Panel Discussion at Block Seoul in Seoul, South Korea
• Our Cyberdelic Concrescence: Exhuming Terrence McKenna at VRTO2018 in Toronto, Canada
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• Celebration of the Trickster King at C.G. Jung Center,
New York City
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• On Magick & Thee Occult at Horizons: Perspectives on Psychedelics, Body Actualized Center, New York City
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• On Sigmund Freud and Dr. Hannibal Lecter at
Feasting on Hannibal: An Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Melbourne, School of Culture and Communication, Australia
• Psychoanalysis, Art & The Occult at Das Unbehagen, Panel Moderator, London, England​
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