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Richard Doyle earned his Ph.D. in Rhetoric at UC Berkeley. He was the Mellon Post Doctoral Fellow in History and Social Science of the Life Sciences at MIT in 1993. Professor of Rhetoric, Doyle holds appointments in English, Science Technology & Society and the College of Information Science and Technology at Penn State University and was Visiting Associate Professor at UC Berkeley, Department of Rhetoric in 2003. Doyle teaches courses in the history and rhetoric of emerging technosciences - sustainability, space colonization, biotechnology, nanotechnology, psychedelic science, information technologies, biometrics - and the cultural and literary contexts from which they sprout. Professor Doyle has published two books: On Beyond Living: Rhetorical Transformations of the Life Sciences(Stanford, 1997) and Wetwares:Experiments in PostVital Living( Minnesota, 2003) - in a putative trilogy about emerging transhuman knowledges. These knowledges and practices, linked to molecular biology, artificial life, nanotechnology, psychedelic and information technologies render distinctions between living systems and machines frequently dubious and often indiscernible. This excited and confused rhetorical membrane between humans and an informational universe nonetheless broadcasts a clear message: humans, in co-evolution with the technical matrices transforming the planet, find themselves in an evolutionary ecology that is as urgent as it is experimental.

Continuing his collaborative work on the “transhuman imperative”, Doyle ( aka mobius) is currently completing the trilogy with a scholarly book about archaic and contemporary psychedelic media technologies and the evolution of mind: Ecodelic! Plants, Rhetoric and the Evolution of The Noösphere. Other current projects include a novel about the life of Philip K. Dick and a book, Admixtures: Dialogues After Genomics with Mark Shriver. The Admixtures Project has grown The Penn State Center for Altered Consciousness, currently investigating the genetics and phenomenology of legally altered consciousness with the help of a floation tank.

Doyle directed the Penn State Composition Program from 2004-2006, and serves as Expert, Wetwares and Human/Machine interaction for international organizations and a volunteer to the Penn State Center for Sustainability More about mobius' work and teaching can be found by browsing his web site.

A Recent Text - __Divining Ayahuasca__Discourse, 27.1 (Winter 2005), pp. 6–33. Download, read, respond....

Williams S. Burroughs, Life Scientist", in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Publication of Naked Lunch ( A draft - comments welcome!)

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Podcasts

Just Say Yes to The Noösphere - a talk at Stanford University Law School

Psychedelics R Information Technologies A talk at Rice University Computer and Information Technology Institute

Ayahuasca Montage: Why Psychonauts Should (and Do) Interrupt Themselves Continually - A talk given to the Society for Literature, Science and Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 2006.

A Transmission From the Vast Active Living Intelligent System From Da Grasshopper Lies Heavy, A spoken Wyrd Opera

Biometrics and the Human/Plant Interface - A talk given at the 'Beyond Biopolitics' symposium at the Center for the Study of Women and Society, CUNY Graduate Center of New York, March 2006.

Omphalosophia - Towards a Copenhagen Interpretation of Living Systems in Museums, With Special Reference to John Lilly

Mobius available as hapticlattice on Skype and IM. IM and Skype office hour Wednesdays 3:30-4:40 pm Eastern.

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