Issue 32 Fire Winter 2008/09

Table of Contents

Columns
  • Ingestion / Power Hungry
    Benjamin 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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