WHAT: Dery lecture in Bethesda, Maryland, at the National Library of Medicine’s “History of Medicine Seminars” series: “The Anatomical Unconscious: X-Ray Specs, Visible Women, and the Eros of the Unseen.” Open to the public. WHEN: November 4, 2010 (Thurs) 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. WHERE: National Library of Medicine 8600 Rockville Pike Bethesda, MD 20894 (301) […]
Photographers: A call for six (6) photos, to be reproduced in black and white, as illustrations in a forthcoming Brazilian (Portuguese-only) anthology of my work, I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Essays on American Empire, Digital Culture, Posthuman Porn, and the Sexual Symbolism of Madonna’s Big Toe (Editora Sulina). The book will be launched at […]
READ IT NOW, BEFORE IT’S REDACTED: “Goodbye to All This: On Leaving True/Slant.” TEASER: The unspoken goal, in too much American journalism, is not to tell people what they don’t know, or never even imagined they might want to know, but to tell people what they already know, since it logically follows that anything they […]
HELP WANTED NEEDED: A webdesigner with some coding skills (Movable Type, Perl) OR a coder with some design literacy. JOB DESCRIPTION: 1. Migrate the contents of my extensively built-out website (www.markdery.com) to a new, user-friendly, free-hosting platform such as WordPress, Blogger, MT, or Tumblr. (Your informed opinion on which platform is best will help determine […]
WEEKEND UPDATE: Apparently, some Bronze-Age bible troll reported my Facebook link to this essay as “abusive,” presumably because Twain was an atheist and Huckleberry Finn, one of the most banned books in a nation that stinks to heaven of god-bothering, is the devil’s handiwork. Now, due to Facebook’s guilty-until-proven-innocent logic—a rule of thumb that wins […]
But seriously: the debate about publicness is too important to be left to prophets of a great big beautiful tomorrow. Join the bloodsport, HERE. PULLQUOTE: Is the pervasive resistance to untethering ourselves from our social worlds or disconnecting ourselves from the media drip, even for an instant, at root a fear of the emptiness in […]
Found on the Web. All rights reserved. WHAT: An illustrated lecture with “cult author and cultural critic” Mark Dery (The “cult author” bit is my host’s artful sobriquet, not mine!) WHEN: This Friday, June 18th. TIME: 8:00 PM. ADMISSION: $7 LOCATION: Presented by Morbid Anatomy, at the Proteus Gowanus gallery Observatory at 543 Union Street […]
Robert Plant exclaiming “I am a golden god!” Well, wasn’t he?! (Found on the Web; all rights reserved.) Rock’s Back Pages, a mammoth, pay-per-view “exclusive archive of 50 years of rock ‘n’ roll history,” ranging from articles to audio recordings of interviews, now offers (to paid subscribers, with a few freebies to bait the trap) […]
WHAT: “Have We No Sense of Decency, Sir, at Long Last?: On Adult Diapers, Erectile Dysfunction, and Other Joys of Oversharing.” My TRUE/SLANT essay on the Death of Shame, the Plague of Oversharing, and the Frenzy of Social Networking in the Age of Always Connect. READ IT HERE. NUT GRAF: The totemic technologies of our […]
WHAT: “Cthulhu said it, I believe it, that settles it.” My H+ feature on the cephalopod meme, “Kraken Rising: How the Cephalopod Became Our Zeitgeist Mascot.” READ IT HERE. NUT GRAF: When the stars align, [H.P. Lovecraft’s monstrous squid god] Cthulhu will rise again to resume His dominion over the Earth, ushering in an age […]