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.
== monochrom #26-34: Ye Olde Self-Referentiality == == Release performance as part of REcon Party (@ Petit Cafe Campus, 57 Prince Arthur City, Montréal) == == With Special Guest Readers: Chris (Zeke) Hand, Molly Steenson, Cindy Poremba, Amanda Williams == July 10, 2010, 8:30 PM == The phatzine monochrom #26-34 (Goat of 1k Young) is … Read more
For more than a century, neuroscientists believed that the brains of humans and other mammals differed from the brains of other animals, such as birds (and so were presumably better). This belief was based, in part, upon the readily evident physical structure of the neocortex, the region of the brain responsible for complex cognitive behaviors. … Read more
Too much modern fiction is dreary, slow-moving and downright boring, argues Harry Mount. People have been declaring the death of the novel ever since the first novelist, Petronius, held the first launch party 2,000 years ago, in Rome. The latest doom-monger is Lee Siegel, a witty columnist on the New York Observer – one of … Read more
Languagehat on “America”: I presume we all know about the first appearance of the word America on the Waldseemüller map of 1507; what I, at any rate, didn’t know was that the text of the map and accompanying book, and hence the coining of the word, is thought to be the work of Waldseemüller’s friend … Read more