Biopsy Weekend Send-off: Embracing One's Post-Historical Animality Edition

"If Man becomes an animal again, his arts, his loves, and his play must also become purely 'natural' again. Hence it would have to be admitted that after the end of History, men would construct their edifices and works of art as birds build their nests and spiders their webs, would perform musical concerts after the fashion of frogs and cicadas, would play as young animals play, and would indulge in love like adults beasts. But one cannot then say that all this 'makes Man happy.' One would have to say that post-historical animals of the species Homo sapiens (which will live in abundance and complete security) will be content as a result of their artistic, erotic, and playful behavior, inasmuch as, by definition, they will be contented with it." - Alexandre Kojève, from footnote in second edition of Introduction to the Reading of Hegel, pg. 159, clarifying footnote from first edition, pg. 158

Your Biopsy Weekend Send-off

"... the most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent, and on a large scale: it is much stupidity ... I need not say that in real sound stupidity the English are unrivaled; you'll here more wit and better wit in an Irish street row than would keep Westminster Hall in humor for five weeks." - Walter Badehot, Letters on the French Coup d'Etat, 1852

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Two Essays to Tide You Over

If you weren't already aware by now, Biopsy's slog to get issue three published endures pretty much in the same sluggish manner it has been for some time. Financial problems have given way to scheduling conflicts and all sorts of messy, fluid-drenched things they don't teach you in school. Though I'm going to bet that few, if anyone at all really cares, it would be improper of me not to offer to share with you something in lieu of an actual magazine. Hence, I give you Two Essays of Pressing Relevance.

In a fit of boredom I did a little old school cut and paste on two essays I've written in the last few months that are entirely independent of the magazine, despite clear similarities to the work in the mag. One is a revised version of the lecture I gave in Brooklyn this past January, with a cool new title and everything. The other is a defense of necrophilia that has not seen the light of day. To be fair, both of these are to be a part of Aaron Smith's zine Nadir whenever that comes out, but that should not deter you from checking that out anyway as Aaron is wont to bring the awesome with staggaring regularity. Besides, I've only a couple hundred Xeroxes so these won't get all that much mileage aside from some already interested readers. Sadly I cannot provide a cover shot, but it's pretty minimalistic anyway and the cover image is the one above. It's kind of like the early covers of Reason. And since I literally cut and pasted the layout -- admittedly going through too much paper in the process -- it does look more budget than anything else I've done. If anyone is interested in getting a copy, contact me at biopsymag@hotmail.com with your address and I'll get one out to you promptly. And since I love you more than you will ever comprehend I'm offering NO charge for this as well, so you basically have little to no reason whatsoever to bitch me out over the quality of the design. Good night, and good luck.