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Issue 21 Electricity Spring 2006
Table of Contents
Columns
- Inventory / A Poet of Cloth
Brian Dillon
Beau Brummell’s knot theory - Colors / Yellow
Nato Thompson
The sign of things to come - Ingestion / After Taste
Amelie Hastie
Visual pleasure in the candy store - Object Lesson / Unidentified Floating Object
Celeste Olalquiaga
François Péron and the taxonomic delicacies of the jellyfish
- Things That Think: An Interview with Nicholas Gessler
Margaret Wertheim and Nicholas Gessler
The shape of pre-silicon computing - Break the Bank
Sam Burton
Alves Reis and the Portuguese currency crisis - Out of the Picture
Louis Kaplan
Maurice Blanchot and the refusal of photography - Artist Project / APL (Alaskan Pipelines)
Jason Middlebrook - Tales of Desert Nomads
AUDC (Robert Sumrell & Kazys Varnelis)
Quartzsite's long strange trip - It's Just Not Cricket!
Philip French
Alfred Hitchcock, the Nazis, and an all-too-British comedy duo - Artist Project / Approximate Original Contour
Rachel Watson - The Clinical Orgasm
Rachel P. Maines
A medical history of the vibrator
- The Force
Wolfgang Schivelbusch
Better living through electricity - Driven to Fail?
The early history of the electric vehicle - Mesmeromania, or, the Tale of the Tub
Christopher Turner
The therapeutic powers of animal magnetism - Something for Nothing
Nick Laessing
Searching for free energy in the Swiss Alps - Volts from the Blue
Steven Connor
Something in the air - Unlucky Strikes
John R. McLain
A lightning survivor's tale, in his own words - Artist Project / Transformer Houses
Robin Collyer - Appliance Theory
Jennifer Gabrys
The uncanny microwave - Absolute Power: An Interview with Sharon Beder
Jeffrey Kastner and Sharon Beder
A history of global electricity markets - Invisible Cities: An Interview with Christina Kubisch
Christoph Cox and Christina Kubisch
The song of the machines - Blinded by the Light
Sasha Archibald
The art of illumination - Darkness Visible: An Interview with Travis Longcore and Catherine Rich
Courtney Stephens, Travis Longcore and Catherine Rich
On the ecological consequences of artificial lighting - Electricity and Allegiance
Anna S. Barnett
Ebenezer Kinnersley, Benjamin Franklin, and the electrified “magical picture” - The Human Telegraph
Michael Sanchez
Francisco Salva's shocking invention - Captured Lightning
Margaret Wertheim
The fractal beauty of Lichtenberg Figures
- Bookmark / Condensed Directions for Using the Drake Electrical Vibrator, 1922
- Postcard / Pigeons Don't Fly at Night
Jasper van den Brink
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