[Metalab] monochrom #26-34: Pre-Order starts now
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jg at monochrom.at
Tue Feb 9 11:16:19 CET 2010
monochrom #26-34: Ye Olde Self-Referentiality
The phatzine monochrom #26-34 (Goat of 1k Young)
is an impossibility in an impossible universe --
an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe
work, pop attitude, subcultural science and political activism.
500 pages (55 ounces) of outrageous printed bestiality.
Official release: March 11, 2010.
But pre-order starts now: EUR 18, USD 24.
Mail to: mono AT monochrom.at
Release events in Vienna, Hong Kong, SFO, LA, New
York, Munich, Berlin, London...
Details here: http://www.monochrom.at/mono/monochrom26-34/
Content:
Screws and astronauts. Roundworms and Columbia.
Cannibalism at sea. Conlanging 101. The basic
mechanisms of New Economy and Neoliberalism. The
sketchy world of Elffriede. The status of martial
law. RFID. Henry the Halibut. Rieseberg and the
emergence of work. Dracula (a poem). Historicity,
temporality, and politics in the cinema
aesthetics of Deleuze, Rancière and Kracauer.
Or-Oms call to the children. The problem with
social robots. An (anti)history of Rave. The life
of a Swiss banker and fascist anti-imperialist.
Considerations by Martin Auer. The Stepford wives
and stereotypes of putative perfection. Noise and
talk. A little potpourri about amok runners, mass
homicide and 80s pop songs. Scratching means
life. Mae Saslaws 10005. Kiki and Bubu and
Orwells 1984. Cybernetics and whatever happened
to it. The integrating of the Fringe. Witchcraft
and lesbianism. The weirdness (and PR) of the
wonders of Oz. Rachel Lovingers personal journey
towards datameaningfulness. Revolution, ads and
revolt. A pilot study on the philosophy of life
of schizophrenics. Pro Asylum. Bird Ball.
Medicine in the Dark Ages (humor, leeches, charms
and prayers). Reflections about Ivan Grubanov and
Paul Chan. Communism, anti-German criticism and
Israel. Surprise findings. Hot, hard cocks and
tight, tight unlubricated assholes. Dubbing
(Casablanca and forged movies). The treatment of
media in H. P. Lovecrafts cosmic horror. The
relationship of books and films explained via
Capricorn One. Stories about our friends (e.g.
whales). The history of Pinball machines. Italy
and the incubation of fascism. Consider Phlebas
and The Waste Land. The implicit ideology of
media activism and its current opportunities.
Urban Pilgrims touring Vienna. Ronald McDonald
slapping a guy in the face. Text adventures. The
Shining (Jack of all Trades, Master of None).
Reappropriating architecture and playing with the
built city. Recoding LOLcats. Sitcom as Endgame,
Tatort out of the Volksempfänger (an attempt to
understand the culture industry). Gender, race
and film comedy. Neon Bible and its hidden
agenda. The SNAFU principle and how hierarchies
inhibit communication. The power of disposition
over (global) space as a new dimension of class
structuration. Lustgas. Stammlager 217 and
Israels popular culture of the 1960s.
Supertheory(TM). Adopt a highway. X-Wing
penetration, dominatrix fathers and phallic light
sabers. Europanto. The Unicorn and the Maiden.
Leben macht Spass. How to build a magnificent
Boom-Boom. Lots of reviews of deities,
personalities, questions, states of mind, culture
(as opposed to nature), nature (which cannot be
divided from culture), words, social practise,
future(s), technological artefacts, experiences,
things on a keyboard, and matter. The short story
of Pocahontas and Avatar. Walled World. Hacking
the Spaces. Sally Grizzell Larsons No. 29. The
tyranny of structurelessness. Jack Kirbys top 20
creations. The need of Change (keep your coins).
Fehler and Fairchild Semiconductor. Richkas
Answering Space and the question about Home.
Worm. Future 42.0. Doctorows row-boat. Bare life
innovation. A mnemonic of longing. Etiology of
Romero-Fulci Disease (and the case for prions).
Campaign for the abolition of personal pronouns.
Yahooking. A social-centric, canine-inspired
perspective on the placebo effect. Helpless
machines and true loving caregivers. Information
doesnt work (thats why we need information
workers). The myth of Xanadu (reconsidered). John
Wilcock and the Manhattan Memories. The Cult of
Done. Looking at Gene Wilder. Sweet Home Alabama
(and why diamonds are a girls worst nightmare).
Pretesting the idea of apparative hermeneutics.
Ignorantism. Artistic fears in the age of
religious fundamentalism. Smoking against
America. The Things of Eternity. After warfare in
Yugoslavia (or: moral order of recognition).
Existential game-show experiments. The epic of
Gilgamesh. Mozart as public relations hype. Las
Vegas and its casino traditions. Sikhs.
Pornographic coding. Invader and public tiles.
Splasher, street art and the Situationist
International. MakerBot. Long live the porn
flesh. The three rules of sidewalk junk
giveaways. Melcus and his maps. Mister
plomlompoms embracing of post-privacy. Catty
(the baseball player). John Duncan (in: Blind
Date). Michayluks crush of worship of the copy.
The Telecommunications History Group. monochroms
initiative for the accomplishment of Total
Population. The medieval agricultural year.
Office Art. A cartoon that makes neoliberals
laugh. A rough guide to number stations. The
digital age and ubermorgen.com. Mobile phones and
for whom the SAR tolls. A call for more
science... and giant dinosaurs who bite each others head off.
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