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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Cyborgs as we collectively imagine them are a wholly aesthetic construction, and an outdated one at that.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...
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crazybuildculture: NYC underverse
New York City has its skyscrapers and its subways, its parks and its asphalt. It has its Apollonian rooftops and its Dionysian pleasure enclaves, its meatpacking district clubs and absynthy Brooklyn...
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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...
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Melancholy And Cowboys
Artist Tim Schwartz rocks. A while back, he contacted me about participating in a project called Reimagining Wild Bill for which several writers were asked to fill in the missing page of a notable...
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History Of The Grecian Urn, Abridged
Another strange history. This is from a severely backlogged project—I reread just the epigraphs the other day and was amazed how they told a story about the object in question, the urn. Thus, today,...
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Announcing Elsewhen
We’re headed back to North Carolina in mid-April for a month-long residency all about time travel, libraries, and the future of space. Stay tuned!
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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...
View ArticleOur 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)...
View ArticleKip Rosser at Cornelia Street Observatory, next Wednesday night!
At 6 PM next Wednesday, May 30, we’re exciting to once again host thereminist/performer/all-around amazing human Kip Rosser on behalf of Observatory, this time at our monthly Manhattan event (details...
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Angels, Animals and Cyborgs: Visions of Human Enhancement at the Cornelia...
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+...
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