BEN VICKERS is active as an independent curator, author, and publisher. Together with Sarah Shin he runs Ignota Books, which is described as “an experiment in the techniques of awakening.” The independent imprint’s catalogue boasts an impressive range including, among other titles, a collection of occult poems of the twenty-first century, a treatise on the self, ecology, and intelligence written with the help of an AI, as well as Ursula K. Le Guin’s Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction.