Symposium on Neuromatic

The Symposium appears in Religious Studies Review 49: 3 (September 2023): 309-29. The Symposium began as a panel at the 2022 American Academy of Religion (AAR) meeting in Denver. The panel was organized by Finbarr Curtis and moderated by Jesse Lee; Curtis and panelists Tracy Fessenden, Jessica Johnson, Gabriel Levy, and William Robert have all revised their remarks for inclusion here, as has Modern his response.

Tracy Fessenden, “Introduction: Live from Napa State.”

The Cramps, Napa State Mental Hospital (June 1978). credit: Ruby Ray

Finbarr Curtis, “John Lardas Modern’s Neuromatic is a Sign of Global Apocalypse That Will Kill Us All.”

Bad Music for Bad People

Gabriel Levy, “Thinking About John Thinking About Cognitive Scientists Thinking About Religion.”

MindLab, Aarhus Universitet (June 2014). credit: JL Modern

Jessica Johnson, “Blurring the Lines between ‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ Religion: John Modern’s Neuromatic.”

Dr. HC Tien, Michigan Institute of Psychosynthesis circa 1973

William Robert, “My Neuromatic Cut-up.”

Auditing Theodor Adorno

John Modern, “If I Only Had a Brain: A Response to the Reviewers.”