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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™
- 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
- 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
- Postcard / Yours Sincerely, Wasting Away
Michael Rakowitz - Bookmark / The Laff Box
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