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Weaves the evolutionary theory of sexual selection and the study of rhetoric together with the science and literature of psychedelic drugs

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction | Glimpsing the Peacock Angel

1. The Flowers of Perception: Trip Reports, Stigmergy, and the Nth Person Plural

2. Rhetorical Mycelium: Psychedelics as Eloquence Adjuncts?

3. Rhetorical Adjuncts and the Evolution of Rhetoric: Darwin’s Impassioned Speech

4. LSDNA : Creative Problem Solving, Consciousness Expansion, and the Emergence of Biotechnology

5. Hyperbolic: Divining Ayahuasca

6. The Transgenic Involution

7. From Zero to One: Metaprogramming Noise, with Special Reference to Plant Intelligence



Epilogue: In Darwin’s Dreams

Notes

References

Index

About the Author

Richard M. Doyle is professor of English and science, technology, and society at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of On Beyond Living and Wetwares

Reviews

"Darwin's Pharmacy is a significant achievement, a brilliant, ambitious, original piece of pedagogy. I can't imagine anybody but Doyle who could control and mobilize in the name of a single vision the range and dizzying variety of the material on offer." -Brian Rotman, Ohio State University "Darwin's Pharmacy is a beautiful book-poetry in prose and modern music in print. It is a book for all readers who have ever wondered whether dreams are another form or a different part of wakened consciousness and reality. Doyle dispenses with dualism and parallelism, expanding wonder from dreams to ecodelic states and the possibilities and difficulties of communication about these states via language." -Stanley Shostak, University of Pittsburgh