Evan michelson biography

The Books in Our Lives.

Evan Michelson — a dealer, at Obscura Antiques & Oddities in Manhattan, in anatomical curiosa and weird antiques, and co-star of the Science Channel reality show Oddities—is unique in her disposition to defend, with some heat, the virtues of the moral philosopher and political radical Jeremy Bentham—not a subject that rouses many of us to throw down the gauntlet.

I found this out over dinner one night when I made a snippy reference to the Father of Utilitarianism—something about Bentham’s Panopticon prison as a cage for the mind, cribbed heavily from Foucault’s Discipline and Punish—and saw indignation kindle in Michelson’s eyes.

This is something to see, since she tends toward the deader-than-deadpan—a set jaw coupled with a gaze so level, so unblinking it could arc-weld. (A gaze perfected, no doubt, in her days as an industrial-noise performance artist in the Lower East Side punk-rock scene of the ‘80s.)

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