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Host Architectures and Expressive Ecologies
Check out continent‘s new call for a massive scholarly wiki version of A Thousand Plateaus >> From the official call: We suggest “2012-2017: Host Architectures and Expressive Ecologies” as the working title of this particular plateau, a project in which the complete English-language text of A Thousand Plateaus is converted to a wiki-based application. In this latest [...]
Our Favorite Obscure Adventurers
This list was drawn up for a friend but never used. I want to share it now, because I am excited about the possibility that a) my own Society’s past is irrecoverably clouded by time and fictions and b) someday, my own involvement in the Society will be as well. Also, c) perhaps I could [...]
Living Books About Life
This incredibly new book series from Open Humanities Press has got me all hot n bothered. Open Humanities is amazing; even moreso, the promise of a continually updated set of resources on the intersection of the humanities and sciences. Here’s the official description: Funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), and published by Open [...]
The Future of Energy
Weeks ago, I attended this talk on energy as a living thing, held at the New School. The conversation was enlightening, but no one addressed the possible applications of biotechnology—such as engineered algae. That aside, the event is worth watching, and I still invite readers to cross these various perspectives with the biotechnological one, that [...]
Elsewhen Flyer: “Your Guide to Enjoying (Read: Surviving) the Library of the Future”
Download this informative, printer-friendly, grayscale, 8.5″ x 11″ manual TODAY! >> We are so into library science right now. Word up to all my librarians. Raise your horn-rimmed glasses proudly, ladies. And dudes (Andrew). You guys are seriously smart and in-tune with both the internet and the Common Reader. You have shown us, in our [...]
Elsewhen: The Hollow Earth Society at Elsewhere
—being a report of our work for Elsewhen at the Elsewhere Collaborative in Greensboro, NC. As part of this unusual residency, we’ve generated stories, videos, classes, happenings, and even a new para-academic conference: The Longest Story Ever Told – Saturday, April 21, 2012/ongoing – Almost as soon as we arrived in the Greensboro of 2012, we helped [...]
GMStorytelling Group: Get Your Biofuture Fiction On, Y’all!
Announcing Genetically Modified Storytelling, an ongoing forum for discussing the intersection of biopunk fiction, theory and ethics of biotechnology, and emergent biotechnologies. Based on the class writers Daniel Grushkin and HES co-founder Wythe Marschall led at Genspace recently, the site hopes to collect some of the conversations we’ve tapped into around biotechnologies in real and [...]
Guest Writer Audrey Tran on Art: Jason Martin’s sound work for “Special Delivery”
Special Delivery began in 2010 as a New York based mail art project involving artist friends, who were sharing photos, drawings, letters, and sculptural multiples through the mail. Art from the Mailbox is a series of blog posts that reflect on the individual pieces received from Special Delivery. The series originally appeared on thefanzine.com’s blog, [...]
Ludovico D’Amore
Hollow Earth Society member and frequent Observatory alumnus Ted Enik reviews strange, new books for us: Cultural critic Mark Dery’s new collection of essays, I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts The Ludovico Technique is a form of compulsory deprogramming featured in both the book and film A Clockwork Orange. It consists of forcing a patient [...]
Elsewhen: The Story of the Living Library
As part of the Hollow Earth Society’s time here at Elsewhere—inhabiting a library, workshopping the notion of library/museum/site of education—we’ve developed an Elsewhen Tumblr to showcase our fictions and other responses to the books in the Living Library. Read our stories; share them; write your own! We will be posting titles periodically that still need [...]
Post-Space
BAM—here’s some teaser copy for our documentary on how the virtualization of different archives and learning experiences is affecting the library/museum/university, courtesy Atlas Obscura founder Dylan Thuras: The collapsing of the the virtual and the real into one “space” I would argue that virtual space has never been less “real” than space-space, only different. The [...]
Kulturpark
Our friends at Elsewhere have been up to some very cool work in Germany. Check out their new project, Kulturkpark: In the Treptower Park forest in East Berlin, along the Spreeriver, there is an abandoned amusement park. The park, originally called Kulturpark Plänterwald, was built in 1969 by the GDR and was a rare site [...]
The Congress For Curious Peoples 2012
Our friends Joanna Ebenstein and Aaron Beebe are yet again producing a faboulous Congress For Curious Peoples, April 13-22 at Coney Island USA. Here are all the details: Presented by Morbid Anatomy Library and Coney Island USA, the 2012 Congress of Curious Peoples is a 10-day series of lectures, performances, and a 2-day symposium devoted to [...]
