{"id":645224,"date":"2024-11-25T20:43:51","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T17:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-divine-transfiguration-of-pharmakon\/"},"modified":"2024-11-25T20:43:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T17:43:51","slug":"the-divine-transfiguration-of-pharmakon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-divine-transfiguration-of-pharmakon\/","title":{"rendered":"#The divine transfiguration of Pharmakon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3664c3dcc73\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" 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ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-divine-transfiguration-of-pharmakon\/#The_industrial_noise_artist_talks_Maggot_Mass_her_fifth_studio_album_about_death_and_the_site_of_her_own_artistic_regenesis\" >The industrial noise artist talks Maggot Mass, her fifth studio album about death and the site of her own artistic regenesis.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"deck\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_industrial_noise_artist_talks_Maggot_Mass_her_fifth_studio_album_about_death_and_the_site_of_her_own_artistic_regenesis\"><\/span>The industrial noise artist talks <i>Maggot Mass<\/i>, her fifth studio album about death and the site of her own artistic regenesis.<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"content_blocks\">\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265732\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1877_j5pu2u\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1877_j5pu2u\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1877_j5pu2u\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1877_j5pu2u\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1877_j5pu2u\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1877_j5pu2u\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1877_j5pu2u\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1877_j5pu2u\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1877_j5pu2u\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1877_j5pu2u\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1877_j5pu2u\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"The divine transfiguration of Pharmakon\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><\/p>\n<p>      Mariano Cayo<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265725\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            The cemetery groundskeeper has locked Margaret Chardiet and I inside by accident, meaning we have to scale a wrought-iron fence covered in sharp spikes. The task is no problem for the industrial powerviolence artist known as Pharmakon, an avid subway surfer who\u2019s spent many a night here, contemplating the fleshy grotesque of the corporeal form. Conversely, I\u2019m a few inches away from multiple puncture wounds that would require a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> to a nearby hospital for an emergency tetanus shot. The vaccine is synthesized with methanal, the same chemical used in the embalming process which we\u2019d just spent two hours deriding in relation to Chardiet\u2019s latest album, <i><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/2BmSVv9dZcezNwoQDfQKIZ?si=BWeP3PYRRBanQv-f-AbyXA\">Maggot Mass<\/a><\/i>. In retrospect, I can\u2019t help but feel as if the bodies beneath our feet didn\u2019t <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>reciate being used as symbols of human selfishness and capitalistic consumption while they turn into toxic waste with the help of greedy technocrats and pharmaceutical execs.\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265726\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            Death and decay have always been at the forefront of Chardiet\u2019s mind, something she\u2019s made exceedingly clear over the past 17 years as Pharmakon. Similar to her other releases, <i>Maggot Mass<\/i> is part of a life-long wrestling match that pits a mind bound by society against the powerful urges of the physical body. With its thorny textures and gnashing distortion, Chardiet\u2019s work is ruled by confrontation, destructive agony, and feral rage, expressed from her own corporeal form through blood-curdling screams and animalistic howls. But <i>Maggot Mass<\/i> is also her most accessible work to date, with its rhyming lyrics and more traditional arrangements to connect with a broader audience. Per Chardiet, the project is a reflection of \u201cthe dysfunctional relationship humans have developed with our environment and the rest of life on earth,\u201d and how we\u2019re all affected by \u201cthe technological isolation of our species from the rest of the world.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            As we sit on the mossy steps of a weatherbeaten mausoleum, Chardiet expounds on the idea. \u201c[We] impose our will by manipulating the world around us to suit our needs,\u201d she says. These disruptions to nature, she argues, \u201care actually very self-destructive,\u201d as we\u2019ve become blind to \u201cwhat these manipulations and interventions are actually doing to our landscape and our own ability to survive.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265733\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1808_dab7fs\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1808_dab7fs\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1808_dab7fs\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1808_dab7fs\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1808_dab7fs\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1808_dab7fs\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1808_dab7fs\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1808_dab7fs\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1808_dab7fs\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1808_dab7fs\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1808_dab7fs\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"The divine transfiguration of Pharmakon\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><\/p>\n<p>      Mariano Cayo<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265727\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <i>Maggot Mass<\/i> uses modernized death rituals as an example of how we continue to \u201cseparate human life from the rest of life on Earth,\u201d she says \u2014 how we artificially prolong our lives with synthesized drugs; mindlessly consume sweatshop-made garbage; and pay morticians to turn us into \u201cmethanal dolls,\u201d our bodies injected with toxins and placed in a tiny box so detritivores like maggots, nematodes, and fungi cannot return your body to the earth.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            From the festering dirge that is \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cbx4pDuAXBc\">Methanal Doll<\/a>\u201d to the percussive assault powering \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w0R2zIe4lQw\">Splendid Isolation<\/a>,\u201d her productions are \u201cmeant to induce a trance\u201d grounded in natural bodily instinct. It&#8217;s to show how far we\u2019ve strayed from our original purpose on this earth for microplastic junk and our own egos, unable to even give back to the soil that bore us by allowing our flesh to just decompose into hope for new life.\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265736\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left pull_quote\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"pull_quote\"><p>\u201c[We] impose our will by manipulating the world around us to suit our needs.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265728\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <i>Maggot Mass<\/i> started with a dream, where Chardiet was dead and every aspect of her \u201cself\u201d had ceased to exist.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cWithout memory, identity, or ego. Suspended outside of time \u2014 no before\/after, arc, or story \u2014 only [the] present moment. Oblivion,\u201d she wrote in a press statement about the opening track \u201cWither and Warp.\u201d While non-sentient, she felt vague sensory bliss about being \u201ca single link in the daisy-chain of life,\u201d where she was \u201cuseful\u201d through \u201cthe divine transfiguration of decay.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            \u201cI was more content in this mode of being than I ever was with life as a human,\u201d her statement continued. \u201cThis is dream-logic hinged upon the hope that when we die, the body merely breaks down back into the energy that was trapped inside its\u2019 [sic] matter. And whatever bacteria, nematodes, flesh-fly larvae, fungi, and carrion-eaters might devour \u2018you\u2019 will surely take \u2018you\u2019 into \u2018them,\u2019 rendering your death back into the folds of life.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265737\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1924_kkqcy5\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1924_kkqcy5\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1924_kkqcy5\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1924_kkqcy5\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1924_kkqcy5\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1924_kkqcy5\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1924_kkqcy5\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1924_kkqcy5\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1924_kkqcy5\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1924_kkqcy5\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1924_kkqcy5\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"The divine transfiguration of Pharmakon\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><\/p>\n<p>      Mariano Cayo<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265729\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            When she sings about our \u201cdebt\u201d being due on \u201cMethanal Doll,\u201d you can hear the despair and dismay in her voice, strong enough to eclipse the burdensome textures of the brutal production. Compared to \u201cthe decomposers that take our matter and turn it into nutrients that go back to the soil,\u201d she says, humans are \u201cuseless\u201d as our egos refuse to let our precious bodies rot.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Chardiet calls the detritivores process of \u201cliterally taking death and transforming it into life through redistribution\u201d one part of a \u201csame-class society.\u201d For many, maggots are considered \u201cthe lowest form of life\u201d (though Chardiet prefers to use terms like \u201cunderdog,\u201d \u201coverlooked,\u201d and \u201cthe downtrodden\u201d). She sees the maggot also representing other humans with less money and resources. She talks of the corpses of the poor that are thrown into a city-owned incinerator, the life of a Congolese child being worth less than the cobalt powering your computer, and how the monied and powerful believe they have \u201cprimacy over everything around us, even over other humans.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            It\u2019s a selfishness that Chardiet says was on full display during the COVID-19 pandemic, with its <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC9480470\/#:~:text=Recent%20data%20showed%20that%20one,in%20645%20for%20Black%20individuals.&amp;text=Compared%20with%20White%20children%2C%20AI,COVID%2D19%E2%80%92related%20death\">disproportionate impact<\/a> on marginalized communities, the government having to pay <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC8426978\/#:~:text=In%20total%2C%20over%20%2418%20billion,and%20continuing%20to%20the%20present.\">Big Pharma for a vaccine<\/a>, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2772481\">health insurance companies<\/a> thriving as policyholders suffered and the uninsured drowned in debt. Where we should\u2019ve been seeing equitable care for others, Chardiet only saw hospital hallways filled with gurneys and biomedical and tech industries rake in billions of dollars, which caused her to spiral into a five-year depressive spell. Throughout the experience, she could only feel a profound sense of grief and moral confusion, torn by her desire to make music from the isolation of her room while \u201cmillions of people were dying.\u201d \n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265730\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            \u201cI was deeply questioning what the purpose of being an artist was,\u201d she says. \u201cBut I also thought, why live if not [to make art]? For me, the process of making this record was kind of reiterating, \u2018Yeah, that&#8217;s who I am, this is why, and it isn&#8217;t fucking important, because I&#8217;m not changing the world or anything like that.\u2019\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            Chardiet says her purpose as an artist is to engage in collective action with her community and the like-minded people around her who make her feel like \u201cthere&#8217;s something to be said for changing the culture and the way that we talk about these things, even if it\u2019s a drop in the bucket.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\n            She adds, \u201cAnd it&#8217;s worth shedding that fucking tear.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265734\" class=\"content_block paragraph image triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1722_rybvsf\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1722_rybvsf\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1722_rybvsf\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1722_rybvsf\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1722_rybvsf\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1722_rybvsf\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1722_rybvsf\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1722_rybvsf\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1722_rybvsf\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1722_rybvsf\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1722_rybvsf\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"The divine transfiguration of Pharmakon\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><\/p>\n<p>      Mariano Cayo <\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265731\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            In his 1968 essay \u201cPlato\u2019s Pharmacy,\u201d philosopher Jacques Derrida wrote that the ancient Greek thinker using the word \u201cpharmakon\u201d as \u201cdrug\u201d denotes that it is both \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/shc.stanford.edu\/arcade\/publications\/occasion\/intellectuals-and-state\/aesthetic-education-and-pharmacology-state\">medicine and\/or poison<\/a>.\u201d More recently, philosopher <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/shc.stanford.edu\/arcade\/publications\/occasion\/intellectuals-and-state\/aesthetic-education-and-pharmacology-state\">Bernard Stiegler has argued to expand the application of \u201cpharmakon\u201d<\/a> to encompass technological and pharmacological advances. As our world becomes increasingly dependent on both, Stiegler writes that tech can be helpful and harmful depending on your perception: It can be good for communication and entertainment, but has also directly contributed to shorter attention spans in children and unchecked consumerism. Others have since applied Stieglerian thinking to these industries\u2019 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_new\" href=\"https:\/\/journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org\/index.php\/mt\/article\/view\/863\">negative impact on the environment and humanity<\/a>, arguing that while advances in technologies like smart sensors or cloud computing provide a more comfortable user experience, it\u2019s through \u201cexploiting labor, extracting resources and destroying ecosphere,\u201d per <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> theorist Jakko Kemper. <\/p>\n<p>These recent philosophical arguments are so perfectly aligned with the message of <i>Maggot Mass<\/i> it makes you question whether the record says something about Chardiet\u2019s overall identity as Pharmakon. Whether it was clairvoyance or pure coincidence, the 34-year-old chose her stage name when she was 17, completely unaware she would be undergoing a meaningful regenesis another 17 years later. And while the conceptual content remains similar, after spending the past five years wondering \u201cwhat is industrial music and the purpose of this project,\u201d her subsequent sonic switch-up on <i>Maggot Mass<\/i> feels fated. Akin to natural law, there was a death, transformation and a birth into something new: a project that\u2019s direct and outwardly confrontational during a time when that\u2019s exactly what\u2019s required.\n          <\/p>\n<p>\n            \u201cPersonally, the entire thing is this \u2018coming back to the basics\u2019 moment for me, where it&#8217;s me being more obvious. Like, this is exactly what I&#8217;m talking about and who I&#8217;m talking to,\u201d Chardiet explains. \u201cFor me, there always has been a sense of desperation and urgency, but especially now.\u201d\n          <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-265735\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1969_w920yq\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1969_w920yq\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1969_w920yq\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1969_w920yq\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1969_w920yq\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1969_w920yq\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1969_w920yq\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1969_w920yq\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1969_w920yq\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1969_w920yq\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/8P1A1969_w920yq\/pharmakon-maggot-mass-album-interview.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"The divine transfiguration of Pharmakon\"><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><\/p>\n<p>      Mariano Cayo<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Sandra Song<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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