Chemical Poetics

Chemical Poetics

Home
Archive
About
Announcing: The Psychedelic Syndicate
How Silicon Valley Used Veterans to Hijack the Psychedelic Industry
 • Neşe Devenot and Psymposia
Vindication for Psymposia; and what the MDMA CRL discourse has missed
Reflections on the FDA's Complete Response Letter to Lykos Therapeutics
 • Neşe Devenot
TEDxMidAtlantic: Why Ethics Matter in the Debate Around Psychedelics
A time capsule from the 2024 FDA Advisory Committee meeting on MDMA-assisted therapy.
 • Neşe Devenot
Jonathan Ott's Amicus Brief
An old head's resistance to MAPS's psychedelic medicalization project.
 • Neşe Devenot
Veronika Gold's unsuccessful request for corrections
After a year of attacks, the core of my critique of MDMA-assisted therapy passed a review by the editorial board at The American Journal of Bioethics.
 • Neşe Devenot
SXSW 2025 (Part 2): Unexpected Support from Heroic Hearts
In March 2025, I returned to the conference that sparked my plans for last summer. In Part 2, I describe the panel and its unexpectedly positive…
 • Neşe Devenot
SXSW 2025 (Part 1): The Lead-Up
In March, I returned to the conference that had sparked my plans to oppose MDMA-assisted therapy last summer. This is Part 1, about a June 2024 event at…
 • Neşe Devenot
Chemical Poetics
Chemical Poetics
A place for updates about my psychedelic humanities research, spanning critiques of corporadelic billionaires, the literary history of trip reports, psychedelic bioethics, and the occasional high weirdness.
Recommendations
View all 6
Ecstatic Integration
Ecstatic Integration
Jules Evans
User Mag
User Mag
Taylor Lorenz
Psychedelic Press
Psychedelic Press
Psychedelic Press
Blood in the Machine
Blood in the Machine
Brian Merchant
How To Do Things With Memes
How To Do Things With Memes
Aidan Walker

Chemical Poetics

AboutArchiveRecommendationsSitemap
© 2026 Neşe Devenot · Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start your SubstackGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture