[Erik Davis's Figments] New Stuff

[anna balint]

From: Erik Davis <erik at techgnosis.com>
  

  Hi folks

  Just wanted to let you know about two fresh articles now on my site.
  (Actually one's a few months old, but hey!) Look for a new and improved

  website-personal blog later this winter.


  Cameo Demons
  http://www.techgnosis.com/scg.html

      The unedited version of a Wire profile of the reclusive and

  sarcastically esoteric underground rock group Sun City Girls. "When they
  first hit the stage with their peculiar mix of sardonic rock, trickster
  improv, and hippie mysteriosa, they could only get gigs at punk shows, 
and
  the crowds responded to their baffling sets and bizarre costumes with 
anger

  and violence. The band came to aggressively taunt these people, dishing 
out
  verbal abuse, sarcastic musical moves, and the occasional cup of urine."

  Cross Purposes
  http://www.techgnosis.com/zizek.html


      A review of Slavoj Zizek's very cool The Puppet and the Dwarf. 
"Besides
  containing the most extensive analysis ever undertaken of the German 
Kinder
  Surprise egg toy, The Puppet and the Dwarf is Zizek's most compelling and
  passionate writing on Christianity to date, one founded on the wacky

  assertion that 'to become a true dialectical materialist, one should go
  through the Christian experience.'"

  For those of you in Europe:

  On February 2, I will be lecturing on Burning Man at the Transmediale Fly

  Utopia! conference in Berlin.
  http://www.transmediale.de/splash/docs/transmediale04.html

  A similar lecture will go down in London at the ICA on February 4th.
  http://www.ica.org.uk

  More nebulous and nomadic talks will occur at the Gage conference in Hull 
on
  February 6th, and the Horse Hospital in London on February 10th, the 
latter

  with the amazingly knowledgeable space nut Ken Hollings.
  http://www.timebase.org/
  http://www.thehorsehospital.com/

  Cheers,
  Erik