Angels, Animals and Cyborgs: Visions of Human Enhancement at the Cornelia Street Cafe
Angels, Animals and Cyborgs: Visions of Human Enhancement at the Cornelia Street Cafe An illustrated lecture by Salvador Olguín ***IN MANHATTAN at The Cornelia Street Cafe as part of the HUMAN+ series*** Date: Sunday, July 22 Time: 6 PM Admission: $10, includes one drink Presented by the Hollow Earth Society, originally presented by Morbid Anatomy [...]
“Hey, Where’s My Robot Girlfriend?” at the Cornelia Street Cafe
We have our second-to-last scheduled Cornelia Street Observatory event coming up this Sunday with the erudite and intriguing Laura G. Duncan: “Hey, Where’s My Robot Girlfriend?” An Exploration of Sexual Robotics, Teledildonics, and Carnal Technology at the Cornelia Street Cafe An illustrated lecture with sexual health researcher, educator, and writer Laura G. Duncan *IN MANHATTAN [...]
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 [...]
Suspicious (Real) Anatomy: The Hemangioblast
From Wikipedia: The hemangioblast was first hypothesized in 1900 by Wilhelm His. Existence of the hemangioblast was first proposed in 1917 by Florence Sabin, who observed the close spacial and temporal proximity of the emergence of blood vessels and red blood cells within the yolk sac in chick embryos. In 1932, making the same observation [...]
The Pathological Sublime & Anatomical Unconscious With Mark Dery
Part 3 of Cornelia Street Observatory: BODY AS FUNHOUSE MIRROR Celebrating the publication of his essay collection, I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-By Essays on American Dread, American Dreams cultural critic and cult author Mark Dery will lecture—with unforgettable slides—on the hallucinatory Crypt of the Capuchin monks in Rome, the uncanny wax mannequins at La Specola in [...]
Class at Genspace! Genetically Modified Storytelling
Genetically Modified Storytelling: Can Science Fiction Prognosticate Our Biotech Future? Classes will be held Tuesdays at 7:30pm, March 6, 13, 20. Never before attempted! Genspace will cross a literature course on science fiction with an intro to biotech. Get ready. It’s hands on. Sci-fi writers write our future. Jules Verne gives us Captain Nemo and [...]
Swords-As-Cybernetics
This passage comes from “Count Roland: Heroes Every Child Should Know,” about the Twelve Peers of France (who were among the first knights): Next to Roland for valour and hardihood came Oliver, his companion. Many a heathen warrior did he slay, till at last his spear was shivered in his hand. “What are you doing, [...]
The Anatomy Of Mortal Kombat
Saw it on YouTube thanks to my younger brother, who was once a professional video game player (yes, for real!). But the YouTube video is down, so I found this again on Street Anatomy, one of the Society’s favorite sources of fact, disinformation, and strange aesthetics. For more wonderful X-ray art, check out the Street [...]
I Are Cyborg: Design Edition
Cyborgs as we collectively imagine them are a wholly aesthetic construction, and an outdated one at that. That’s ok! We love our retrofutures here at HES and the lovely effects they have on our eyeballs. The quaintness of a process that relies entirely on the addition of artificial body parts means we get to indulge [...]
