Monday, November 24, 2025
7pm ET (NYC time)
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Body horror may be having a moment as the genre du jour at movie theaters, but the fear of our human bodies as mutating, monstrous death traps is a cultural obsession with a lineage stretching back far further than Cronenberg. Plato called the body a tomb and a prison, Medieval Christians likened it to a sack of worms; while the Buddha is said to have urged his followers to scorn it as a diseased mass of wounds. And for as long as the great men of philosophy, religion, science, and the arts have been railing against the body's vileness, women have been categorized as the corporeal class, more fleshly – and more deathly – than the male. Why has the horrific body been women's burden to bear, and how has the charge of female bodiliness been used to justify social inequality, exploitation, and violence?
This talk will offer a radical feminist dissection of the body horror that plagues manmade culture, of men's immortal dreams of disincarnation and their bloodyminded nightmares of carnal womanhood.
Aurora Linnea is the author of 'Man Against Being: Body Horror and the Death of Life' (Spinifex Press, 2024). She has also published poetry, horror stories, zines, and noisy industrial performance art cassette tapes.
The Oreads (1902). Oil on canvas, 236 × 182 cm (93 × 72 in). Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Female torso, revealing urinay system. 1555 By: Vesalius, AndreasDe humani corporis fabrica libri septem / Andreas Vesalius Published: [colophon 1555]
Monday, November 24, 2025
7pm ET (NYC time)
Free! RSVP with email at checkout
PLEASE NOTE: Video playback of free events is only available to Patreon members. Become a Member HERE.
Ticketholders: A Zoom invite is sent out two hours before the event to the email used at checkout. Please check your spam folder and if not received, email hello@morbidanatomy.org.
Body horror may be having a moment as the genre du jour at movie theaters, but the fear of our human bodies as mutating, monstrous death traps is a cultural obsession with a lineage stretching back far further than Cronenberg. Plato called the body a tomb and a prison, Medieval Christians likened it to a sack of worms; while the Buddha is said to have urged his followers to scorn it as a diseased mass of wounds. And for as long as the great men of philosophy, religion, science, and the arts have been railing against the body's vileness, women have been categorized as the corporeal class, more fleshly – and more deathly – than the male. Why has the horrific body been women's burden to bear, and how has the charge of female bodiliness been used to justify social inequality, exploitation, and violence?
This talk will offer a radical feminist dissection of the body horror that plagues manmade culture, of men's immortal dreams of disincarnation and their bloodyminded nightmares of carnal womanhood.
Aurora Linnea is the author of 'Man Against Being: Body Horror and the Death of Life' (Spinifex Press, 2024). She has also published poetry, horror stories, zines, and noisy industrial performance art cassette tapes.
The Oreads (1902). Oil on canvas, 236 × 182 cm (93 × 72 in). Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Female torso, revealing urinay system. 1555 By: Vesalius, AndreasDe humani corporis fabrica libri septem / Andreas Vesalius Published: [colophon 1555]
