From Autopia to Túnelandia (a dispatch from the Border)
More and more we live in a world of tunnels. On chunnels, smuggling tunnels, torrents, and sinkholes. With an interlude on Arcade Fire.
More and more we live in a world of tunnels. On chunnels, smuggling tunnels, torrents, and sinkholes. With an interlude on Arcade Fire.
Hydra-head Anelise Chen's viewpoint piece from the innards of the MFA.
Eternal vigilance, we hear, is the price of democracy. But is it possible that vigilance could be eternal, when so much of our lives are spent sleeping, dreaming, and talking to each other about our dreams? It is difficult to know when a friend calls you in the middle of the night, frantically relating
Quetzaltepec Volcano, Solstice 2010 With your anticipated baktun shift 585 days away, the penultimate peak of summer before the 5,125 year baktun period terminates obtains the significance of being, in the hot rainy June of the tropics, the last tropical torrents before the last wash of the cycle of the current baktun. This is
Before Homer’s Odysseus there was a certain Atra-Hasis, king of the Shurruppak in the Fertile Crescent before the flood, who became an enemy to the lazy gods because of his desire to make tools and survive the disaster (1800 BCE). Before Atra-Hasis, there was one Who Saw the Deep, ol’ Gilgamesh, who probably ruled
Summer, 2009: At the far end of an island, I found myself pulled down, pulled to pieces, pulled in half. Should I stay or should I go I asked myself many times. And as many times, I had no answer. So I smoked and I drank and I began to work on my epic
Giordano Filippo Bruno, that implacable figure, had vagabonded across the face of Europe before he was arrested, imprisoned, inquisitioned, and burned at the stake for multiple heresies against the doctrines of the Church. It took eight years for the trial to end with his execution. But Bruno's mystique continues unabated.
Here at Hydra, we've now had 60 encounters with you, our audience, and after 60 meetings we are surely quite in love and ready for 60 more (and 60 after that, and so forth). But before we get ahead of ourselves, we think a look at the stuff of our magazine (our
Gottfried Maurer’s three-volume tome was originally published by Nautilus-Verlag in the early 1990s, but it was revised to such an extent that by the time of the author’s death in late 2008, when no further revisions would be possible, a new edition was in order. The revised and re-translated Treatise of the Three Impossibilities,
