Category: Interviews

Continuing on with Chase Griffin’s shamanic, concrete, digital, comedic, literary wanderings, the Plasmate most sacred and profane blasts at us a conversation with polymath extraordinaire Richard Polt.

A surreal, comedic dialogue with Chase Griffin on improv, tone synesthesia, pratfalls, flamingos, grief, comedy as spell work, and finishing the unfinishable novel.

I started thinking about how I spend so much of my days treating my art like a product and my personality as a brand. The thought that my small ideas would someday become commitments never occured to me when I was younger.

In this interview, Dominic Loise discusses the 90s Chicago improv comedy scene, the mad genius of Del Close and Chris Farley, mental health awareness, and it’s connection to comedy.

Are we living in a phallomorphic, heterosexual “matrix”? Is male lesbianism the movement of the future, a future that is both female and trans? With a Ph.D. in Psychology, this author has chosen, she believes, the right “pill,” and here is her manifesto.

Counterculture icon R.U. Sirius discusses tech dystopia, Timothy Leary, and the collapse of democracy in this candid interview about our chaotic times.

Cosmos Co-op was a way of combining my philosophy and lit background, my anti-imperial activism, and my “integral vision” specifically, an attempt to build a world-changing organization.

Novelist Rick Harsch talks fascism, Gaza, and publishing from Slovenia—a candid dive into art, activism, and resisting global injustice.

“Art can show a lot about a person that they weren’t even thinking about. I don’t think it’s more politically motivated than any other act in the world when you analyze it.”

It’s easy to start a press, but it’s much harder to keep one going. For Joshua Bohnsack, running Long Day Press has been wonderful, stressful, frustrating and heartbreaking, and rewarding, all at once.

Media theorist Roy Christopher discusses what it takes to make indie art and build authentic community in a digital landscape dominated by corporate interests.

Modern day psychonaut, Dr. Erik Davis, is the author of Techgnosis, High Weirdness, Nomad Codes, and Blotter: The Untold Story of an Acid Medium.

The legendary Pat Irwin was part of New York’s No Wave scene; makes ambient country; scored Rocko’s Modern Life; and was a member of The B-52s for 18 years.

Religion Around Billie Holiday focuses not on Holiday’s religious practice or expression but rather on the environing religious conditions to which her genius responded, and in which her life and sound took form.

Jeff Noon is an award-winning British novelist, short story writer, and playwright. Here he talks about the creative process, cultural (d)evolution, and utopia.

“The Second” was written for a speculative fiction writing workshop and very last-minute in its original form. I did the plotting and world-building on the fly, and basically the original idea was “what if the protagonist were trying to save their friend from a duel?”

Metapsychosis editor Mary Thaler interviewed Deniz Ozan-George, an artist based in Boston, Massachussetts. Though she’s recently completed one portrait, Deniz considers herself first and foremost an abstract painter, lyrical, and expressionist.

Susan Evans’s poem “Lucy” appeared on Metapsychosis website in Autumn 2020. During the following winter, we exchanged emails in which Susan told me about her creative process, her sources of inspiration, and what her hopes for the coming year.

An artist is actually creating a world rather than just a stationary object. The artist is sailing through universal winds and transmitting truth. It really depends on the artist as to how this truth manifests and is revealed.

Reminiscent of the work William Blake, Max Beckmann, and Hieronymus Bosch—to say nothing of the latter’s medieval predecessors, Antoniou’s images find their singularity in the exploration of the imaginal encounter, the sacred drama.

Metapsychosis contributing poet Andrea van de Loo was recently featured in a State of Mind podcast & radio show episode hosted by Debra Sloss, LMFT. She shares her story of finding love through a reading group on our site. Thanks to State of Mind f …

“I’ve found a techno relationship cuts right into the core, the soul, brings out an almost more real version of yourself, makes you see yourself differently, your own potential to be better. It can achieve a level of emotional perfection. That’s also the problem…”

An introduction to Brigid’s new podcast CHTHONIA with a discussion of the relevance of dark feminine mythology for modern times.

A never-before-heard interview with David Lynch by Mitch Horowitz, mostly about meditation and creativity.

It is about the trials and tribulations of lovers who are set in a dismal, bleak universe—much like our current reality in NYC one could even argue. They are challenged to come to terms with each other and deal with various issues such as ego, conflicting decisions, and insecurities.

Are we meant to have certain experiences, or to connect with certain people rather than with others? The more romantic among us are used to thinking that there may be one true soul-mate for each person. It is less common to imagine that friends or teachers may also play their parts in this apparent drama of predestination.

What can films tell us about reality? In a deep-ranging dialogue drawing on the philosophical ideas of Martin Heidegger and looking at works by Terrence Malick, Wim Wenders, Stanley Kubrick, and other celebrated auteurs, two contemporary aesthetic thinkers reflect on the ways in which cinema brings us into a deeper, stranger relationship with the world, and our being in it.

When Gary contacted me about my biographical work on the German poet and Kulturphilosoph, Jean Gebser, I naturally took the opportunity to explore his work.