JH Phrydas is an essayist, author of Levitations (Timeless, Infinite Light 2015), and curator of the long-term project X21REQ, which calls for artists and writers to answer the question: “What does the twenty-first century require of you?” Armed with library cards from local universities, he researches, writes, and creates collages for future novels. He conducts his research within the analog and digital divide: in the hopes that, by reconfiguring memory through embodied narrative, queered history, and alchemical ancestries, we might, as a culture, grind towards a new type of knowledge. One felt in bone and written in the stars.