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Issue 17 Laughter Spring 2005

Table of Contents

Columns
  • Colors / Gray
    Geoffrey O'Brien
    Nowhere all over the place
  • Ingestion / Don't Slice Ham Too Thin
    Jeffrey Kastner
    Fred Harvey and the prehistory of fast food
  • Inventory / Regalia
    Paul Lukas
    The decline and fall of a ribbon empire
  • Leftovers / Ashes to Diamonds
    Tom Vanderbilt
    Turning grandma into a Treasured Family Heirloom™
Main
  • Blocking All Lanes
    Sean Dockray, Steve Rowell and Fiona Whitton
    Sig-Alerts, detection loops, and the management of traffic
  • Centripetal City
    Kazys Varnelis
    The myth of the network
  • The Artist as Volcano
    Jesse Lerner
    The seismic imagination of Dr. Atl
  • The Mathematics of Paper Folding: An Interview with Robert Lang
    Margaret Wertheim and Robert J. Lang
    Adventures in computational origami
  • How to Make Your Own Square-Based Origami Bud
  • Artist Project / The Ted Turner Collection—Report from the Battlefield (Paper on Uccello)
    Marco Maggi
  • Do Not Mingle One Human Feeling
    Joe Milutis
    Jenny Lind and the mysteries of protophonographic notation
  • H & Co.
    Daniel Heller-Roazen
    The fate of aitch
  • Artist Project / Return to Sender
    Robert Bowen
  • Artist Project / Even the Trees Would Leave
    H. Lan Thao Lam and Lana Lin
Laughter
  • Tears of Laughter
    Christopher Turner
    Darwin and the indeterminacy of emotions
  • Stimuli Eliciting Smiling and Laughing in Children at Different Ages
  • Artist Project / Laughter, Interrupted (Introduction)
  • Artist Project / Laughter, Interrupted (Rueful)
    Paul Chan
  • Very Funny: An Interview with Simon Critchley
    Brian Dillon and Simon Critchley
    Toward a philosophical history of humor
  • The Practitioner: An Interview with Maud Skoog Brandin
    Mats Bigert
    Laughing without reason in Sweden
  • Infectious Laughter
    David Serlin
    Kuru as metaphor
  • Artist Project / Laughter, Interrupted (Cruel)
    Lawrence Weiner
  • The Art of Laughter
    Jim Holt
    Three ways to be funny
  • Artist Project / Laughter, Interrupted (Malicious)
    Matt Freedman
  • The Christian-Hegelian Comedy
    Slavoj Žižek
    “God is dead,“ and other classic one-liners
  • Artist Project / Laughter, Interrupted (Perverse)
    Steven Brower
  • Incorruptible Teeth, or, the French Smile Revolution
    Colin Jones
    Laughter and the birth of dentistry
  • Wide at the Bottom, Narrow at the Top
    Sasha Archibald
    King Louis-Philippe and the pear
  • Artist Project / Laughter Scores
    Edward Jessen
  • No Laughing Matter
    Jennifer Liese
    A short, sad history of the smiley face
And
  • Postcard / Yours Sincerely, Wasting Away
    Michael Rakowitz
  • Bookmark / The Laff Box
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