Manifestoes

Crazyology is an evolving theoretical framework for understanding the relationship between irrationality, creativity, and technology. Beginning with its etymological root – "craze" meaning "crack" in Middle English – Crazyology proposes that these cracks in conventional reality are not flaws to be fixed but promising portals to be explored, and their occurrence not merely random accidents, but systematically significant phenomena to be intentionally engineered.

The word "crazy" itself gives us a clue. It comes from "craze" – a crack, a fissure. In Middle English "crazes" described the fine network of cracks that would appear in pottery glazes, those delicate fractures that paradoxically marred yet graced the symmetry of the potter's art.

Crazyology calls this "lie that reveals the truth" phenomenon "Pseudocism" - to believe in things that you cannot prove to be true. Pseudocism is without a doubt the most popular belief system of all, but it is not a belief system properly speaking but rather a construct of consciousness that facilitates belief.

Every culture draws its lines. It marks off the sacred from the profane, the done from the not-done, the sane from the crazy, and it draws these lines with such conviction that we mistake them for the edges of the world itself. They are not the edges of the world.