Performativizing Papyrocentricity #54

Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Protean Prose – The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby, Charles Kingsley (1863)

• Schmetterlingsschmuck – Butterfly, Thomas Marent (Dorling Kindersley 2013)

• Criblia – ბიბლია / Biblia (Georgian Bible) (2013)

• Micro Macro – Super Bugs: The Biggest, Fastest, Deadliest Creepy Crawlies on the Planet, John Woodward with Dr George McGavin (Dorling Kindersley 2016)

• Chute: The Lot – The Fallen: Life In and Out of Britain’s Most Insane Group, Dave Simpson (Canongate paperback 2009)

• Twice Has Thrice the Vice – Pisces, Peter Sotos, with an introduction by Dr Miriam B. Stimbers (TransVisceral Books 2017)


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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #46

Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Machina Mundi – The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution, David Wootton (Allen Lane 2015)

• Wandering Wonders – Plankton: Wonders of the Drifting World, Christian Sardet (The University of Chicago Press 2015)

• Love Buzz – A Buzz in the Meadow, Dave Goulson (Jonathan Cape 2014)

• Quake’s Progress – The Million Death Quake: The Science of Predicting Earth’s Deadliest Natural Disaster, Roger Musson (Palgrave Macmillan 2012)

• Sin after Cin – Gargoyle Girls from Beelzebub’s Ballsack: The Sickest, Sleaziest, Splanchnophagousest Slimefests in Scum Cinema, Dr Joan Jay Jefferson (TransToxic Texts 2016)


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The Stages of Cin (#3)

Cinnabar moth on ragwort

Cinnabar moth, Tyria jacobaeae, on ragwort, Jacobaea vulgaris


Update: In fact, it’s a Six-spot burnet, Zygaena filipendulae, on ragwort, Jacobaea vulgaris. Probably.