In Cortex Vortex, Matt Furie returns to his psychedelic roots with a gooey vengeance. At the center of the book's neural spaghetti is Orange Goo—a semi-sentient, bio-digital slime that oozed out Furie's mind and became self-aware as NFT art. As Cortex Vortex’s narrative unfolds, we learn the Goo is Furie's ultimate metaphor: liquidity, absurdity, and transformation all in one blorpy blob.