They live among us... possibly.

Gas Masks, style not fashion

I keep waiting for this guy to use those bolt-cutters...


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Thurston Moore knows his shit, he hipped me to this performance.
He also really digs Black Metal.

Mutual Autopsy

One has to admire those with the courage of their convictions, especially when it involves a persons very being. In the late 19th century a group of anthropologists in France undertook an attempt to disprove the existence of the soul. These positive scientists were convinced that the key to individuality lay inside the head, and could be determined by comparisons of the brains of people whose traits were well known. The members of this august body (la Société d'autopsie mutuelle) were so convinced of this that they bequeathed their own bodies to the society along with a description of their characters in order that a scientific study could be undertaken.



However it wasn't all serious disinterested studies for the society members (not pictured) they also took on a distinctly performance art-type approach to their endeavour as well. "They held dinners where the food was served on prehistoric pottery or in the cavities of human and, in one case, giraffe skulls, to emphasise that there was nothing special about human remains, that they were no different from animal remains".
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Victorian student dissection picture found here.
Quote from: Peter Watson (2006) Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud, Harper Perennial: New York, pp 709