WHAT THIS WEBSITE IS ABOUT
About the Author
In my village, being Papuan, being Black, and not belonging to any civilisational religious club was considered wrong, bad, or even evil. Only after I left my village did I discover that the wider reality I was entering had also been constructed to criminalise, demonise, reject, and portray people like me as strange creatures. This was the first accumulation of experiences that gave rise to this website and all of my publications. I wanted to know why. I did not set out to write about myself. Thirty years ago, I set out to understand what had happened to my world—my people, my land, my memory, and ultimately, to myself. Everything I have written since has been an attempt to answer that question. This page is a small piece of that report.
About the Website
This website is not simply a collection of journals, books, articles, images, symbols, colours, or signs. It is a long record of an investigation into what has happened to human existence, beginning from the world that produced me. Every publication, whether written, visual, or symbolic, forms part of a single civilisational inquiry. Together, they attempt to identify, name, and map patterns of destruction that often remain hidden because they have become normal.
Nothing here was produced merely to express opinions or record events. Each journal, book, article, image, symbol, colour, and sign has been assembled to point toward a larger question: What happens when a people lose the conditions through which they recognise themselves, their world, and their future? Everything published here is part of an unfinished report on that question. The Psycho-Cosmocide Paradigm is the language through which that report is being written.
About the NATAKA Research Institute
As my research continued, it became clear that the questions I was asking had grown beyond me as an individual. They required a place where they could continue to develop, be tested, challenged, documented, and shared. NATAKA Research Institute emerged from that necessity.
NATAKA is an independent research institute established to investigate some of the deepest questions confronting humanity, civilisation, the cosmobian world, and the future of life on Earth. Its work explores the relationships between memory, land, language, cosmology, ecology, identity, power, extinction, and the conditions that make human existence possible.
The Institute provides the intellectual home for the development of the Psycho-Cosmocide Paradigm and related research into Indigenous knowledge systems, civilisational transformation, existential risk, ecological destruction, and the survival of Papuan cosmobian world. Through journals, books, working papers, essays, visual works, maps, symbols, colours, signs, and other forms of publication, NATAKA seeks not merely to describe the world, but to develop new conceptual tools for understanding it.
Everything produced through NATAKA is part of the same investigation that began more than thirty years ago with a simple question: Why?
About You
Perhaps you arrived here by accident. Perhaps you were searching for something specific. Or perhaps you have been asking questions that the world around you has never been able to answer. Whatever brought you here, you are now part of this conversation.
You do not have to agree with everything you read. In fact, you should not. The purpose of this website is not to tell you what to think, but to invite you to question how you have come to think, what has shaped your understanding of reality, and whether other ways of seeing have been forgotten, dismissed, or destroyed.
Every person carries a world inherited through language, memory, land, stories, symbols, and relationships. My hope is that something here will encourage you to look again at your own world with greater honesty, curiosity, and care. If these writings leave you with better questions than the ones you arrived with, then they have already done what they were meant to do.