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 [...]
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 [...]
Baudrillard Mornings
“We’ve overstepped the threshold of critical mass with respect to populations, events, information, history, politics”
Panel Discussion on Para-Academic Publishing & Book Party
Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 Time: 7:00 PM Admission: FREE Presented by: the Hollow Earth Society, The Public School New York, and punctum books The term “para-academic” captures the multivalent sense of something that fulfills and/or frustrates the academic from a position of intimate exteriority. Para-academia is that which is beside academia, a place whose [...]
Post-Space
Post-Space Conference at the Elsewhere Collaborative Virtual Para-Academic Conference on the Future of the Physical presented by the Hollow Earth Society, Kamomi Solidum, and Elsewhere GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA What is the future of the museum, the library, the university? All these spaces are changing rapidly thanks to the technologies of tele—of distance. With Kamomi Solidum [...]
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 [...]
Baudrillard/Future/Truth/Meaning/Real
From “Baudrillard in the 21st Century (and after)” by Dr. Gerry Coulter: IV. Is Poststructuralism Forever? One thing that is likely to advance Baudrillard’s writings further into the future is the seeming permanence in theory of what we might term a post structural condition. While some will continue to ignore the loss of faith in [...]
