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Issue 17 Laughter Spring 2005

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 and Maud Skoog Brandin
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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