Monsters, mashups, and popular culture
Artist Travis Louie paints some of my favourite portraits. Part Victorian photography, part monster mashup—no matter how hard I believe that his fantastical creations never actually existed, looking into their eyes I can never quite shake the feeling that they’re still out there somewhere, taking selfies and giving the paleo diet a go.
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“I remember my own childhood vividly…I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn’t let adults know I knew. It would scare them” (Maurice Sendak) When I was a small child, I was afraid of very few things. I can vividly remember being terrified of fire, but aside from that one phobia I was pretty … Read more
It’s been said that the line between horror and humour is a fine one, but why is it that the things that so terrify one generation can be so hilarious to the next? And why are so many narratives in the horror genre also full of comedy? One theory is that, when faced with something new and … Read more
So what am I up to now? The idea is to write every morning for an hour (or as long as I can) and see what comes out. The hope it that it will help me out with a few things, among them arranging my thoughts so I can get on with the PhD I … Read more
Haraway’s Cyborg Manifesto says: “the cyborg has no origin story in the Western sense”.
Because the cyborg has no need of a beginning, they have no need of an end. They are inherently post-apocalyptic. But what is a creature without a past – without a narrative? Can we even imagine such a being, and would we even want to?