Androids and Other Undead: The Vampire as a Product of the Enlightenment: Article by Lavie Tidhar. Quote: "In this paper, I would like to take an admittedly whimsical route through the historical narrative of the Enlightenment, in order to suggest both the link between Enlightenment thinking and practices to the vampire, while briefly examining the possible links between sexual practices, the emerging genre of pornographic fictions and the vampire. In order to understand these links it is useful first to analyse the central core of the vampire myth, and see how it relates to - indeed central to - the goals of the Enlightenment." Link
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]