From the efficacy of zodiacal astrology to so-called “synchronicities,” there is considerable evidence to suggest that we are inside some kind of programmable information processing system – a computational cosmos that materializes from out of the relationship between chaos, logos, and psyche. To call it a “simulacrum” may be somewhat inaccurate insofar as it makes implicit and unjustified ontological claims about an ‘objective Reality’ that does not exist.

We are probably not living “on a planet” at all – in anything like the sense that people have customarily interpreted that since Copernicus and Galileo. The “reality” of our situation is much more like some cross between Videodrome and Dark City. Or, if we do live on a planet, that planet is not Earth. It is Solaris.
There is no earth. Only fire.

— Jason Reza Jorjani, Satanaeon

Images: Patrick Woodroffe, 1970s-80s