Table of Contents

Issue 7 is 128 pages and comes with a CD related to the thematic section on Failure. Art projects by Amy Jean Porter, Nedko Solakov, Magnus Bärtås, a free stock in Peter Santino's "Failure Institute" and a poster by Matthew Buckingham.

• The Clean Room / The New Face of Terrorism
  David Serlin
  
• Leftovers / How to Use Scotch Tape
  Paul Lukas
  
• Colors / Safety Orange
  Tim Griffin
  
• Ingestion / How to Cook a Phoenix
  Allen S. Weiss
  

• Ernst Haeckel and the Microbial Baroque
  David Brody
  
• Field Traces
  Bill Jones
  
• Mm, Mm, Good: Marketing and Regression in Aesthetic Taste
  David Hawkes
  
• Beautiful Indonesia (In Miniature)
  David Womack
  
• Paint and Paint Names
  Daniel Harris
  
• Things Fall Apart: An Interview with George Scherer
  Jeffrey Kastner and George Scherer
  
• The Six Grandfathers, Paha Sapa, in the Year 502,002 C.E.
  Matthew Buckingham
  
• Interpretations of the National Park Service
  Sharon Hayes
  
• Soothe Operator: Muzak and Modern Sound Art
  Susette Min
  
• Birds of North America Sing Hip-Hop and Sometimes Pause for Reflection
  Amy Jean Porter
  
• Hungry for God
  Gregory Whitehead
  
• Not Your Name, Mine
  Paul Schmelzer
  

• The Bible from Memory
  Emma Kay
  
• Black Box
  Tom Vanderbilt
  
• Crash Covers
  Jeffrey Kastner
  
• "Shades of Tarzan!": Ford on the Amazon
  Elizabeth Esch
  
• Hashima: The Ghost Island
  Brian Burke-Gaffney
  
• The Floating Island
  Paul Collins
  
• Old Rags, Some Grand
  Scott A. Sandage
  
• The War of the Flea
  Marvin Doyle
  
• The Short, Sad Life of Danny the Dragon
  Dirk Libeer
  
• Better Luck Next Time
  Gregory Williams
  
• The Disappointed and the Offended
  Magnus Bärtås
  
• The Invention of Failure: An Interview with Scott A. Sandage
  Sina Najafi, David Serlin, and Scott A. Sandage
  
• Travelfest Is Closed
  Michael Smith and Nathan Heiges
  
• Special CD Insert / Syntax Error
  
• In Case of Moon Disaster
  William Safire
  
• Romantic Landscapes with Missing Parts
  Nedko Solakov
  
• The Life of Ernst Moiré
  Lytle Shaw
  
• Concert
  Nancy Davenport
  
• A/C
  
• Orphan
  Nina Katchadourian
  

• Unlimited Edition / 1976 Montreal Olympics Participation Medal
  Kris Lee
  
• Stock in Failure Institute
  Peter Santino