Issue 26 Summer 2007 Magic

Table of Contents


This issue, with a themed section on Magic guest-edited by London-based artist Jonathan Allen, is 128 pages and includes a pull-out poster by Implicasphere.

This issue was shipped to subscribers on 10 July 2007. East Coast subscribers will get their issues within 10 days; West Coast and international subscribers should have their issues within two and half weeks.

Columns
  • Inventory Brian Dillon
    Talk to the Hand
    • A Minor History of Joshua Foer
    Aquatic Ambulism
    Colors Dziga Lovechild
    Olive
    Object Lesson Celeste Olalquiaga
    Lost Object
     
Main
  • The Porcupine Illusion George Prochnik
    Freud's prickly secret
    • The Illusionistic Magic of Geometric Figuring Margaret Wertheim
    Virtual reality, medieval style
    Stripes Implicasphere
    A special poster insert
    Simmering Statecraft Sandy Isenstadt
    Politics amid the pots and pans
    Artist Project: Kitchen I & II Terence Gower
    The Real Thing Joshua Glenn
    The Coke bottle and the third way
    The Bitter Scribe of Quail Springs Sandy Zipp
    John Samuelson's Rocks
    Marking Territory Sarah Whitney Womack
    Into the jungle with man's best friend
  • The Barber Trial: Sivan vs. Finkielkraut Thomas Keenan & Eyal Weizman
  • Sivan vs. Finkielkraut 
    A translation of the trial transcript
Magic
    Deceptionists at War Jonathan Allen
    Martial Magic
    Perspective Correction Greg Allen
    The beguiling stagecraft of American politics
    Image Magic Alexander Nagel
    Idol hands are the devil's tools
    Artist Project: Legerdemains Ruth Claxton
    Black Herman's African American Magical Synthesis Yvonne P. Chireau
    Between folklore and vaudeville
    Modern Enchantments: An Interview with Simon During Sina Najafi
    Secular magic and the modern cultural imagination
    Impossible Return Adrian Heathfield
    Watching Tommy Cooper die again
    Alive at Both Ends Paul Kieve
    A brief history of magic's most famous illusion
  • I Can See Your Ideology Moving Sally O'Reilly and Ian Saville
    Ventriloquizing Marx
    • Artist Project: Tommy Angel Jonathan Allen
    Protean Fakirs Shreeyash Palshikar
    Indian magic's new superstar
    Koringa: From Bikanir to Blackpool Vanessa Toulmin
    Currencies of Wonder Tim Reed
    Magicians make money
    Rule 13 Edwin A. Dawes
    David Devant's illusion
    Spell Check Craig Conley
    A brief glossary of magic words
And
    Postcard: The Mystery Card Scott Penrose
    Bookmark: Perforation Curse 












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