# TRANSMISSION: Staying with the Work **URL:** \ **Category:** Metapsychosis journal\ **Tags:** newsletter\ **Created:** [February 8, 2026, 8:01pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/transmission-staying-with-the-work/7644 "2026-02-08T20:01:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![madrush](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/infiniteconversations/user_avatar/www.infiniteconversations.com/madrush/32/6452_2.png) [@madrush](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/madrush)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2026, 8:01pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/transmission-staying-with-the-work/7644/1 "2026-02-08T20:01:21Z")
Dear friend, Welcome to a new season of Metapsychosis. It is not only a new calendar year, but the early phase of a new cycle for our journal and creative community, which will gradually expand and unfold over the coming months as we move toward our tenth anniversary. Since our last Transmission (“[Body Horror and the Beast](https://metapsychosis.com/?na=view&id=109),” 23 November 2025), we’ve been busy working on core infrastructure for [Cosmos Co-op](https://cosmos.coop/), as well as continuing to work with contributors on their upcoming publications, which you’ll get to see soon. Personally, I was overwhelmed at the end of an extra-intense few months, and with the process of finishing [my book](https://untimelybooks.com/book/i-am-the-singularity/). (I’m feeling much better now; thank you.) However, that didn’t stop our stellar editorial and production team from publishing new work in December—indeed, some of the most substantial and rewarding pieces of the year. Below you’ll find links and short blurbs about each of these contributions. But first, here’s what’s most new: ## Acousmatic Crossings Returns This past Thursday, we published the latest installment in our experimental music series, curated by editor Michael Eisenberg. “[Sound as Passage, Passage as Sound](https://metapsychosis.com/sound-as-passage-passage-as-sound/)” features Daniel Burke’s _Lost and Profound Version 2.0_, an acousmatic journey through internal transformation. Burke (performing as Illusion of Safety) constructs cinema for the ears—a slow-burn interior film where field recordings, extended techniques, and electronics trace a path through altered perception and imaginal terrain. ## A Reading Group Devoted to Samuel R. Delany Metapsychosis senior editor and novelist Gennifrey Edwards is hosting a reading group devoted to the fiction of Samuel R. Delany, one of science fiction’s most visionary and formally adventurous writers. We’ll be diving deep into _Dhalgren_, _Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand_, and other works that bend language, consciousness, and possibility. **[Register here](https://metapsychosis.com/groups/delany/)** to join us. All are welcome to participate free for the first three sessions, after which you can decide whether to continue as a Metapsychosis Subscriber (Patron) or Cosmos Co-op Supporting Member. No one will be turned away for lack of funds—if you need support, please [reach out to us](https://metapsychosis.com/contact/). Gennifrey is also author of _[Messioph: The First Book of Ido](https://untimelybooks.com/book/messioph-the-first-book-of-ido/)_—a space opera where living whale starships carry humanity through the stars and generational trauma threatens to consume an entire society. It’s the second installment in the Ido Chronicles series (after _[Plenum: The First Book of Deo](https://untimelybooks.com/book/plenum-the-first-book-of-deo/)_, 2022). * * * ## What You May Have Missed December was dynamic and fruitful. Here’s what we published while the year turned: **[On Hitchcock’s Vertigo: Jungian Alchemy](https://metapsychosis.com/on-hitchcocks-vertigo-part-1/)** — Devon Hansen reads _Vertigo_ as a trans allegory and alchemical working, where Scottie’s vertigo mirrors the dizzying experience of dysphoria. This is Part 1 of a three-part series exploring queer synchronicity and the nature of gender; the [Introduction](https://metapsychosis.com/on-hitchcocks-vertigo-jungian-alchemy-queer-synchronicity-and-the-nature-of-gender/) was previously published, and Parts 2 and 3 are coming soon. **[Somnambulating the Singularity](https://metapsychosis.com/somnambulating-the-singularity/)** — Cat Celebrezze’s mind-bending philosophical essay tracks how “the singularity” has morphed from mathematical tool to sci-fi prophecy to end-times mythology. Rather than sleepwalking toward AI apocalypse, Celebrezze invites us to become “weird historians,” tracking the ghostly assemblages of our digitalis age and the psyche-physics that shapes our experience of time, space, and reality. **[Alchemizing Exile](https://metapsychosis.com/alchemizing-exile-part-1/)** — In this remarkable collaboration, Alexandra Rozenman and Brian George weave together visual art, autobiography, and poetic fragments. Rozenman inserts herself into the lives and studios of canonical painters, while George engages the psychic space around each artist’s work through cut-up process and philosophical meditation. [Part 1](https://metapsychosis.com/alchemizing-exile-part-1/)and [Part 2](https://metapsychosis.com/alchemizing-exile-part-2/) are live now; Parts 3 and 4 are coming soon. **[Micro-Events, Macro-Ghosts: Theta and the Schaeffer Transmission](https://metapsychosis.com/micro-events-macro-ghosts-theta-and-the-schaeffer-transmission/)** — Another Acousmatic Crossings pairing: Daria Baiocchi’s _Theta_ tracks sound as a living system negotiating entropy, while Wayne Mason’s two-minute _Transmissions Psychiques_ uses scrap metal, radio, and a single oscillator to honor Pierre Schaeffer’s radical vision of musique concrète. **[Trickster Signals and Dark Rooms: Two Paths Through Acousmatic Night](https://metapsychosis.com/trickster-signals-and-dark-rooms-two-paths-through-acousmatic-night/)** — More experimental sound work exploring the boundaries between signal and noise, between the heard and the felt. **[Coincidences, Red Herrings, Being: A Conversation with Richard Polt](https://metapsychosis.com/coincidences-red-herrings-being-a-conversation-with-richard-polt/)** — Chase Griffin talks philosophy, phenomenology, and the surprising connections that structure our experience with philosopher Richard Polt. (Chase is also now The Caretaker of [Ramble House](https://ramblehouse.com/), publisher of the legendary Harry Stephen Keeler—congratulations on the new gig!) **[Moving With: A Review of Scivias Choreomaniae](https://metapsychosis.com/moving-with-a-review-of-scivias-choreomaniae/)** — This poetry review moves with remarkable grace between critical attention and lyric responsiveness. (From a purely poetic perspective, one of my favorite publications of the year.) **[A Winter Night by a Lake](https://metapsychosis.com/a-winter-night-by-a-lake/)** — Doge Kamki’s three refractions of the same winter scene, each rendering transformed by a different emotional register: disgust, laughter, wonder. And Michael Eisenberg’s signal boost: **[A Winter Playlist for the Acousmatic](https://metapsychosis.com/a-winter-playlist-for-the-acousmatic/)**. * * * ## Join Us as a Patron **[Become a Metapsychosis Patron](https://metapsychosis.com/become-a-patron/)** to access reading and writing groups (including the Delany group), exclusive events like Acousmatic diffusions (more coming this year), the full features of Infinite Conversations, and early releases of new work. Your support helps us continue publishing visionary voices and building creative community. With gratitude, Marco V Morelli Editor-in-Chief, Metapsychosis