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mike jay author and cultural historian writer curator mike jay currently books curating articles contact mike s new book wireheads an unnatural history of technology in the brain will be published by yale in the us and uk in october a new edition of the influencing machine is forthcoming from strange attractor press in september in the meantime the us edition is still available under the title a visionary madness a revised paperback edition of high society is out now from thames hudson uk his most recent book is free radicals out now in the uk and us it s a revised and retitled edition of the atmosphere of heaven originally published in 2009 psychonauts drugs and the making of the modern mind and mescaline a global history of the first psychedelic are both available from yale university press in paperback hardback ebook and audio he writes regularly for the london review of books free access long reads on sleep science madness and revolution edgar allan poe memory hallucinations and perfume the literary review free access piece on philip k dick and new york review of books on mdma the history of anatomy psychedelics and books bound in human skin more free access essays on ketamine for the new statesman the virus and the martians on covid and h g wells for lapham s quarterly fungi folklore and fairyland and the ether dreams of fin de siècle paris illustrated essays for public domain review on coleridge s hypochondria for wellcome collection stranger than fiction a collection of his essays is available in paperback and ebook the unfortunate colonel despard is available in a revised and updated edition characters and storylines from the book featured in the final season of bbc tv s poldark on which mike was the historical consultant this way madness lies an illustrated history of madness and the asylum is published in the uk and usa by thames hudson wireheads forthcoming in october read more influencing machine new edition forthcoming read more free radicals out now in paperback read more 2026 mike jay