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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.
If E-Books Rule, What About Margin Notes?
These scribbles in the margins already seem like messages from a dying age. Will the next generation of writers leave similar guides to the workings of their minds for the future? Perhaps – but not in a format we can currently comprehend. Link
Deconstructing Prince Charles: Coffee enemas and kingdom
Like Mount Vesuvius but at briefer intervals, Prince Charles erupts in high dudgeon over various and sundry affronts to his very particular and sometimes very peculiar notions of how life should be lived. The ghastliness of modern architecture and the superiority of homeopathic medicine—in 2004 he endorsed an alternative cancer treatment that prescribes, among other … Read more
Americans Are WEIRD
Let me urge you to watch or to read the transcript from psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s recent presentation at the Edge.org conference. Haidt, a prominent social psychologist and researcher (see his website here) spoke on “The New Science of Morality,” in which he discussed what neuroscientists and others are learning about how humans reason morally. It’s … Read more
Our Neandertal Brethren: Genome sequencing has revealed our common humanity
I always suspected that Neandertals and anatomically modern humans interbred, based on a simple observation: humans are the most sexual of all the primates, willing and able to do it just about anywhere, anytime, with anyone (and even with other species if the Kinsey report is to be believed in its findings about farmhands and … Read more