The Air Loom Gang by Mike Jay7/1/2023 ![]() ![]() Jay allows that Matthews showed unmistakable schizophrenic tendencies in his vision of a mind-control machine-the so-called Air Loom and its "gang" of spooky operators. He unfurls a stranger-than-fiction tale of a bizarrely autonomous double agent, and then elegantly segues into a philosophical discussion of agency in its psychiatric context. Examining what were taken to be Matthews's delusional accounts of high-level political intrigue, Jay finds evidence that his claims were founded in reality. ![]() Jay takes as his starting point Matthews's 1796 arrest for publicly accusing Lord Liverpool, the home secretary, of treason. ) weaves a miscarriage-of-justice drama around the shadowy case of James Tilly Matthews, a smalltime political operative in the tumultuous aftermath of the French Revolution, who was detained for more than 14 years in Bedlam, the notorious London madhouse. Jay ( Emperors of Dreams: Drugs in the Nineteenth Century ![]()
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