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 [...]
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 [...]
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Cyborgs as we collectively imagine them are a wholly aesthetic construction, and an outdated one at that.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 [...]
A Designation Of One’s Own Limits: Arguments For (Auto-)Constraint
1. “The success of a revolution should not be measured by the sublime awe of its ecstatic moments, but by the changes the big Event leaves at the level of the everyday, the day after the insurrection.“ (Slavoj Žižek) This shift requires us to equip ourselves with a less simplistic notion of freedom as self-determination. [...]
