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Mike’s most recent book is The Influencing Machine, available in paperback and Kindle – details here. Originally published as The Air Loom Gang (2003), it has been fully revised and updated with newly discovered material.
A US edition is forthcoming under a new title, A Visionary Madness – advance details here.

He has also contributed to recent and forthcoming volumes including Ghosts in the Machine (here), Breaking Convention and Entheogens and the Development of Culture (here). His book reviews have been appearing in the London Review of Books (here, here, here and here), the Wall Street Journal (here, here and here) and Nature (here). He can be seen talking about flying potions here, influencing machines here and the history of opiates here.

Some recent/upcoming talks and events: Nottingham Contemporary, May 7 (here), Sunrise Festival, May 31 (here); Casa del Lago, Mexico City, June 5 (here), Morbid Anatomy, London, June 26 (here), Intoxication 2013, Paris, 28 June (here) and Latitude Festival, July 20 (here).

Emperors of Dreams (originally published in 2000) is back in print in a new, fully revised and updated edition – details here.

Also out in paperback is High Society, an illustrated global history of drugs, published by Thames & Hudson (UK) and Inner Traditions (US) – publishing details, media and reviews here. The book accompanied the High Society exhibition, which he curated for Wellcome Collection in London in 2010-11.

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