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Michael received his BA in African and African Diaspora Studies & Women and Gender Studies from UT Austin. His work seeks to unravel the underlying antagonism between blackness and the psychedelic, focusing on how film and science orient the structure of the psychedelic. Through his engagements with black critical theory, continental philosophy, and Lacanian psychoanalytic thought, he reads for the constitutive lack that blackness must occupy for psychedelic discourses to find and orient their aesthetic projects.
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