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1 Dec 2018

Notes from the Human Zoo 3: The Case of Ota Benga

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Ota Benga (c. 1883 - 1916) If any one individual can lay claim to being the face of the human zoo, it's surely the pygmy Ota Ben...

Notes from the Human Zoo 2: The Case of Sara Baartman (the Hottentot Venus)

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Sara Baartman: adding to the gaiety of nations  and making the Georgian world go 'round I. Although more than one black ...

Notes from the Human Zoo 1: The Myth of the Great Family of Man

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Today, along with freak shows, bear pits, and public executions, ethnological expositions - aka human zoos - have pretty much bee...
30 Nov 2018

Further Reflections on Baby Mia

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Baby Mia with eyes open (2 weeks) I. Babies: what on earth do they think about, when they stare with eyes full of inhuman darkne...
27 Nov 2018

You Can Take the Girl Out of Sodom ... (Notes on the Story of Lot and His Daughters)

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Jan Matsys: Lot and His Daughters (1565) I. I've said it before and I'll undoubtedly have opportunity to say it again: t...
26 Nov 2018

The Possibility of an Island: Reflections on the Case of John Allen Chau and the Sentinelese

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There exists in the midst of time The possibility of an island The recent case of the American missionary John Allen Chau, killed ...
24 Nov 2018

In Memory of Stan Lee and on the Joy of Collecting Comics

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Image: The Hollywood Reporter (July 2016) We assume, says Freud, a strangely considerate attitude towards the dead. Not only ...
22 Nov 2018

Strange Flesh: Notes On Sodomy

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Sleeve artwork for Mortal Way of Life (1988)  by German thrash metal band Sodom I. The Sin of Sodom is Polysemic Sodomy is one ...
20 Nov 2018

Too Much Water-Jelly

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Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard is best-known for a six-volume autobiographical novel given the Hitlerean title Min Kamp (200...
19 Nov 2018

It's Only a Little Prick (Reflections on a Flu Jab)

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I've never had flu - not even man flu - but I appreciate the seriousness of this condition written in the stars and so this ...