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Issue 32 Fire Winter 2008/09

Columns

Ingestion / Power Hungry
Ben Kafka
Dining with the Committee of Public Safety
A Minor History Of / Falling from Great Heights
Joshua Foer
Down to earth
Colors / Puce
Barry Sanders
A flea in your ear
Inventory / Everyone Once in Berlin!
Mel Gordon
A semiotics of the Weimar streetwalker

Main

The Cosmonaut of the Erotic Future
Aaron Schuster
A brief history of levitation from St. Joseph to Yuri Gagarin
To Sit, to Stand, to Write
George Pendle
The author’s position
Notes on Scent
Adam Jasper and Nadia Wagner
How do you smell?
A Fish Called Plaice
An introduction
Artist Project / Flounder No. 2
Nesta Mayo
Plaice and Place
Sanelma Nicht
The significance of space and locality in the investigation of Pleuronectes platessa
Artist Project / Plaice
Dan Woerner
Plaice Names
Allen S. Weiss
A real mouthful
Screenplay Pitch for An American Plaice
Tim Davis
Coming, perhaps, to a cinema near you
Hook, Line, and Sinker: An Interview with Russ Symons
Jeffrey Kastner and Russ Symons
A quiet sort of fishing
Tour of Duty
Therese Robert
USS Plaice at war
Beginning the End
Jon Calame
In the zero thickness of the International Date Line

Fire

Fire and Truth
D. Graham Burnett
Learning from spectroscopy
Iron Ivy
Thomas A. P. Van Leeuwen
The picturesque charm of the American fire escape
George R. Lawrence, Aeronaut Photographer
Christopher Turner
Above the ruins of San Francisco
Superflex and the Re-branding of Denmark
Mats Bigert
The Great Integrator: An Interview with Stephen J. Pyne
Jeffrey Kastner and Stephen J. Pyne
Fire in North America
Marks of Assurance
Janet Connelly
The birth of fire insurance
Sparks of Life
Simon Werrett
Fireworks and physiology
The Rational Hearth
Frumento Combusti
Gauger, Descartes, and the Vestal Complex
Domesday
Julia Wolcott
Bucky Fuller’s dome on fire

And

Postcard / Re-branding Denmark
Superflex
Bookmark / Fire in the Hole
The Scoville Scale

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