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Issue 21 Electricity Spring 2006

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

Main

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

Electricity

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

And

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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