A foray into American competitive eating: Intro: "The first thing to say about Insatiable is that it is a full-length book about the sport - or, if you prefer, the disgusting practice - of competitive eating. I wasn't sure if I wanted to read 300 pages about an activity known as 'gurgitating'. The second thing is that the author, Jason Fagone, is absolutely superb. In many ways, he's like the young Tom Wolfe - he wants to take you somewhere you wouldn't normally go, and then, somehow, with tremendous verve, use it to explain the state of the world. He succeeds brilliantly." 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]