Issue 36 Friendship Winter 2009/10

Table of Contents

Columns
  • Ingestion / The Word Made Flesh
    Eigil Zu Tage-Ravn
    The ecstasy of the scroll eaters
  • Colors / Black
    Paul La Farge
    To see or not to see
  • Inventory / Cigninota
    Christopher Turner
    The mark of the swan
  • Leftovers / Where Do Teeth Go?
    Helen Denise Polson
    Out of the mouths of babes
Main
  • The Art of Movement
    Christopher Turner
    The kinetographic charms of Rudolf von Laban
  • A Difficult Pancake: An Interview with Hinke Osinga and Bernd Krauskopf
    Margaret Wertheim, Bernd Krauskopf, and Hinke Osinga
    Making sense of the Lorenz Manifold
  • The Tale of the Color
    Georg Simmel
    Little Grülp’s search for a home
  • Judging a Book by Its Cover
    Geoffrey Batchen
    Tracing the form of Barthes’s Camera Lucida
  • Technomasochism
    Lev Bratishenko
    Getting spanked by INTERCAL
  • Artist Project / The Dreamer, or, the Adventures of a Luftmensch
    Zoe Beloff
  • Bachelors, Snakes, and Squiggles
    Aaron Schuster
    The brief history of a famous literary doodle
  • Death and Sudden Death (After Dr. Brouardel)
    Steve Reinke
    Surprise endings
  • Artist Project / Rhapsody in Death
    Lena Herzog
  • Postscript
    Cabinet crushed by USPS; saved by poetry
  • Filing Form 3526 (Four Drafts for the Brooklyn P.O.)
    Domestic Mail Manual, with Jeff Dolven
    A bureaucratic aufhebung
Friendship
  • In Defense of Friendlessness
    Beth Blum
    Hatred alone is immortal
  • Artist Project / Guille and Belinda
    Alessandra Sanguinetti
  • Other Self: An Interview with Angie Hobbs
    Jeffrey Kastner, Sina Najafi, and Angie Hobbs
    The philosophies of friendship
  • The Friend in the Mirror
    Mats Bigert
    The phantom limbs of relationships past
  • Artist Project / Group Resonance
    Matti Kallioinen
  • Scenography of Friendship
    Svetlana Boym
    Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, and anchovy paste
  • Speak Not, Memory
    Sina Najafi
    A friend indeed?
  • Revolution in Mind
    Albert Mobilio
    The remains of that day
  • Letter to an Unremembered Companion
    Christine Wertheim
    The shape of your face, the cut of your hair
  • Artist Project / My K.A.P. Friends
    Sabrina Gschwandtner
  • (Face)book of the Dead
    Mark Dery
    Friendship in the age of social networking
  • On the Misrecognition of Friends
    D. Graham Burnett
    The mytho-poetic birth of performance art
  • Trust Me, I’ve Never Done This Before
    Richard Fleming
    Throat, razor, friend
  • Project for the Separation of Friends
    Shelley Jackson
    An editorial operation
  • A Link to Bind Where Circumstances Part
    Gabriel Coxhead
    Hands across the sea
And
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