Pharmakon embraces duality through sound. For 17 years, power-electronics artist Margaret Chardiet has been making bristling, textural chaos under the name Pharmakon—a Greek word that can mean remedy and poison. Deconstructionist philosopher Jacques Derrida introduced the concept “pharmakon” as a container for binaries central to Western logic traditions, like good/bad and internal/external. Chardiet has composed […] The post Pharmakon revels in human-made havoc on <i>Maggot Mass</i> appeared first on Chicago Reader.