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tion (Haworth, 2000). She is currently working on a number of
book-length projects, some excerpts of which may be viewed
at her blog [www.jillnagle.com]. She lives in the Berkeley Hills
with her partner, Alex, and toddler, Cainan.
Annalee Newitz writes about technology, sex, and pop culture.
She is a contributing editor at Wired magazine and has
published in Popular Science, Salon, New Scientist, The Believer,
and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. She writes the
syndicated column “Techsploitation” and is the editor of two
anthologies, White Trash (Routledge, 1996) and Bad Subjects
(NYU Press, 1998). Her forthcoming book, Pretend We’re
Dead (Duke University Press), is about monster movies and
capitalism. She is also editor of the indie magazine Other.
Breyer P-Orridge. Genesis P-Orridge was born as Neil Andrew
Megson in Manchester, England, on the 22nd of February
1950. In 1969 Genesis became the Founding Artist and
Theorist of seminal British Performance Art group C.O.U.M.
Transmissions in Shrewsbury, England. The project was terminated
in September 1976 with a final but now infamous
show called “Prostitution” at the I.C.A. Gallery in London.
This was the first time that the general public would witness
Punk Rock and Industrial culture firsthand. The event caused
an uproar (the venue was owned by Queen Elizabeth II) that
would result in controversial newspaper reviews, television
talk show appearances, and even meetings in Parliament!
Seminal cult band Throbbing Gristle was formed in 1975, of
which Genesis was a Co-Founder and Linguistic Designer.
Throbbing Gristle formed their own record label, Industrial Records,
and coined the term “Industrial Music.” Sonic/Transmedia
music and performance collective Psychic TV formed
in Hackney, London with Alex Fergusson in 1981. Together
with the formation of PTV, Genesis initiated an Art Actionist
Project called Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth (TOPY). Over
its span of ten years, the TOPY network reached around the
globe with over 10,000 participants. On December 23, 2002,
TG 24 was released on Mute Records. This deluxe box set
contains 24 CDs, each an original one-hour long recording
of a live Throbbing Gristle set. A monograph book, Painful
but Fabulous: The Lives and Art of Genesis P-Orridge, was
published by Soft Skull/Shortwave Press in January 2003.
Genesis has worked with William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin,
Timothy Leary, and Derek Jarman, among many others. In
2003 Genesis changed his name to Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
and began a performance/action series called “Breaking
Sex” that was initiated by both he and his partner Lady
Jaye Breyer P-Orridge. This project is about re-union and
re-solution of male and female to a perfecting hermaphroditic
state. This includes having cosmetic surgeries that blur
the lines between their sexes and bring them nearer to being
one physically. For example, the couple has undergone
matching breast-implant operations for Valentine’s Day and
their ten-year anniversary. Recently Genesis and Lady Jaye
have been undergoing physical transformations largely via
cosmetic surgery, although also through tattoos, as Breyer
P-Orridge. These operations are designed to mutate their
bodies into pandrogenous affirmations beyond the limits dictated
by biology and by DNA, each continually transforming
both into and beyond the other, creating a third body—THE
PANDROGYNE. Breyer P-Orridge are currently working on a
DVD called Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is, which
features footage of the artists’ various surgical procedures
combined with calligraphy. [www.genesisp-orridge.com]
Preston Peet is an accomplished author, actor, DJ, musician,
psychonaut, and explorer. Editor of Underground: The
Disinformation Guide to Ancient Civilizations, Astonishing
Archaeology and Hidden History and Under the Influence:
The Disinformation Guide to Drugs, editor of DrugWar.com, a
long-time contributor to High Times magazine, and contributing
editor to Disinformation’s website [disinfo.com], not to
mention author of over 100 articles and stories published in
too many publications to list here, Preston has been known
to take the more adventurous path when it comes to new experiences,
whether they be drug-related or sexual, or other,
in nature. Born Tracy Rich in Ft. Meyers, Florida on September
11, 1966, and given up at birth, lived in numerous foster
homes, picked the name Preston at age three and was
eventually adopted by the Peet family at age five. Preston
has lived in the swankiest digs and the muddiest streets in
cities around the world, including Sarasota, Orlando, Tampa,
and Tallahassee, Florida; Atlanta, Georgia; Paris, France; Las
Navas del Marqés, Spain; Bergen, Norway; Rotterdam and
Amsterdam, Netherlands; and London, England. Upon arrival
in New York City, Preston went from kicking cold turkey while
squatting on the SUNY Purchase campus, to living strung out
in Central Park and on the streets of Manhattan’s Lower East
Side, and now, with his life somewhat together, shares a
small apartment in Manhattan with his beautiful vegan muse,
soul-mate, and lover, Vanessa Cleary, and, at the moment,
nine rescued cats. Preston is always on the lookout for ever
more knowledge and experience, and is helping bring peace
and adventure back in vogue.
Diane Petryk-Bloom has won seven awards for investigative
journalism and feature writing, including honors from the New
York Associated Press, the New York Newspaper Publisher’s
Association, the North Carolina Press Association, and the
Georgia Associated Press. She was news editor of the Sanford
Herald in Sanford, Florida; assistant city editor of the Savannah
Morning News in Georgia; and editor of the St. Ignace
News in northern Michigan. While reporting for the New York
Times’ regional paper in Hendersonville, North Carolina, her
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