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Ecology, Cosmos & Consciousness lecture series presents: Mike Jay’s High society – Mind-altering drugs in history and culture

Tuesday, 31st January, 2012

October Gallery, 24 Old Gloucester Street, London, WC1N 3AL

Please RSVP on Facebook(afraid so) so that we can anticipate numbers – Please pay on the door.

https://www.facebook.com/events/211229202301171/

Entry £7 /£5 Concessions,Arrive 6pm for a 6:30pm Start – Wine available

Drawing on themes and images from the exhibition he curated at the Wellcome gallery in 2010-11, Mike Jay will survey humanity’s engagement with psychoactive plants and chemicals and explore why ‘drugs’ have developed such a controversial image in the modern West.

Mike Jay is an author and curator who has written widely on the history and culture of drugs. His books include Emperors of Dreams: drugs in the nineteenth century, The Atmosphere of Heaven (on the discovery of nitrous oxide) and the illustrated cultural history, High Society.

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Rob Dickins is the Editor-in-Chief of the Psychedelic Press UK online magazine and the PsypressUK: Anthology of Pharmacography. In 2012, he received a Masters of Philosophy in English, with the University of Exeter. His thesis examined the proliferation of psychedelic literature between 1954-1964. It primarily dealt with texts on the psychotherapeutic use of LSD and mescaline, and the development of the psychospiritual narrative. Rob's other interests include alternative British histories, festival fun, anarchic approaches and pocket poetry. He has also pubished a novel called Erin.

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