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  • Mark Dery
    5:55 am Mon, Jan 28, 2013
    The Kraken Awakes: What Architeuthis is Trying to Tell Us

    Captured live on video in its deep-sea element, for the first time, the Kraken of tall tales and sea shanties—Architeuthis, the giant squid—is coming into sharp focus, a flesh-and-blood reality. But why now?

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  • Mark Dery
    7:55 am Thu, Apr 12, 2012
    A Season in Hell

     Features Hell 1

    "From the "Obscure Pleasures of Medical Libraries" to the "Aphrodites of the Operating Theater," cultural critic Mark Dery is never one to turn a blind eye at our own gross anatomy. In 2006 though, Mark couldn't look away even if he wanted to. That year, the author of the new essay collection I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts, spent his summer vacation at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center suffering through the poisonous cure of chemotherapy before punctuating his year with hours under the surgeon's scalpel. Boing Boing is honored to publish for the first time Mark's intense, moving, and deeply personal account of his Season In Hell." — David Pescovitz

    On the wall at the foot of my bed, a poster displays the Faces Pain Scale, a series of earless, genderless every men arranged, from right to left, in increasing degrees of agony.

    "The faces show how much pain or discomfort someone is feeling," the caption explains. "The face on the left shows no pain. Each face shows more and more pain and the last face shows the worst pain possible. Point to the face that shows how bad your pain is right NOW." The blurb adds, helpfully, that your face need not resemble the cartoon visages in the Pain Scale.

    It's August 2011. I'm lying in a room at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, waiting to undergo surgery for a small-bowel obstruction, an intestinal blockage resulting from postoperative adhesions caused by my 2008 surgery for my first small-bowel obstruction, itself the result of my 2006 surgery for a rare and virulent cancer. Abdominal surgery begets scar tissue. Which gives rise to adhesions. Which sometimes cause bowel obstructions. Which may necessitate surgery. Which begets more scar tissue, which…

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  • Mark Dery
    2:09 pm Fri, Mar 25, 2011
    Ghost Babies

    The traffic in dead babies is booming: daguerreotypes of dead babies, ambrotypes of dead babies, tintypes of dead babies, cartes de visite of dead babies, cabinet cards of dead babies; dead babies from the Victorian era. When Karl Marx wrote of capitalism's "naked self-interest," he never imagined the eBay listing whose description assures, "You are bidding on a cabinet card measuring 8 X 6 inches of a sweet baby in repose after death."

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  • Mark Dery
    12:49 pm Wed, May 26, 2010
    Facebook of the Dead

    Read Facebook of the Dead, a Boing Boing special feature by Mark Dery.

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  • Mark Dery
    4:44 pm Mon, Aug 17, 2009
    Mark Dery: Post Mortem

    Mark Dery is guest blogger du jour until August 17. He is the author of Culture Jamming, Flame Wars, Escape Velocity, and The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium. He's at work on The… Read the rest of the article: Mark Dery: Post Mortem

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  • Mark Dery
    7:09 am Sat, Aug 15, 2009
    Aphrodites of the Operating Theater: La Specola Museum of Natural History of the University of Florence

    Mark Dery is guest blogger du jour until August 17. He is the author of Culture Jamming, Flame Wars, Escape Velocity, and The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium. He's at work on The… Read the rest of the article: Aphrodites of the Operating Theater: La Specola Museum of Natural History of the University of Florence

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  • Mark Dery
    10:24 am Fri, Aug 14, 2009
    Smart Bombs: Mark Dery, Steven Pinker on the Nature-Nurture Wars and the Politics of IQ

    Mark Dery is guest blogger du jour until August 17. He is the author of Culture Jamming, Flame Wars, Escape Velocity, and The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium. He's at work on The… Read the rest of the article: Smart Bombs: Mark Dery, Steven Pinker on the Nature-Nurture Wars and the Politics of IQ

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  • Mark Dery
    11:39 am Thu, Aug 13, 2009
    Dery: "Head Case" in Cabinet Magazine

    Mark Dery is guest blogger du jour until August 17. He is the author of Culture Jamming, Flame Wars, Escape Velocity, and The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium. He's at work on The… Read the rest of the article: Dery: "Head Case" in Cabinet Magazine

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  • Mark Dery
    12:08 pm Tue, Aug 11, 2009
    Abjection Sustained: Dery visits Museo Storico Nazionale dell'Arte Sanitaria

    Mark Dery is guest blogger du jour until August 17. He is the author of Culture Jamming, Flame Wars, Escape Velocity, and The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium. He's at work on The… Read the rest of the article: Abjection Sustained: Dery visits Museo Storico Nazionale dell'Arte Sanitaria

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  • Mark Dery
    10:28 am Mon, Aug 10, 2009
    Great Caesar's Ghost: Dery on Rome's Cemetery of the Capuchins

    Mark Dery is guest blogger du jour until August 17. He is the author of Culture Jamming, Flame Wars, Escape Velocity, and The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium. He's at work on The… Read the rest of the article: Great Caesar's Ghost: Dery on Rome's Cemetery of the Capuchins

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  • Mark Dery
    9:56 am Fri, Aug 7, 2009
    Dery and Lecter do Italy

    Mark Dery is guest blogger du jour until August 17. He is the author of Culture Jamming, Flame Wars, Escape Velocity, and The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium. He's at work on The… Read the rest of the article: Dery and Lecter do Italy

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  • Mark Dery
    1:34 pm Tue, Aug 4, 2009
    A Young Person's Guide to the Pathological Sublime

    Mark Dery is guest blogger du jour until August 17. He is the author of Culture Jamming, Flame Wars, Escape Velocity, and The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium. He's at work on The… Read the rest of the article: A Young Person's Guide to the Pathological Sublime

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  • Mark Dery
    10:40 am Mon, Aug 3, 2009
    Mark Dery: My Roman Holiday

    Mark Dery is guest blogger du jour until August 17. He is the author of Culture Jamming, Flame Wars, Escape Velocity, and The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium. He's at work on The Pathological Sublime, a philosophical… Read the rest of the article: Mark Dery: My Roman Holiday

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