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Winter 2000–2001

Columns

Leftovers / The Bone Trade

Gregory Whitehead and Walter SculleyCorporeal collectibles

The Clean Room / Producing Surgery on the Internet

David SerlinIs the rectum a cinema?

Colors / Bice

Jonathan AmesSnot to be

Ingestion / A Personal Gastronomic Alphabet: Part I

Allen S. WeissA–H

Main

Is Chance Possible?: An Interview with Robert Kaplan

Sina Najafi and Robert KaplanPattern recognition

Not Just for Silver Foxes

Louisa KampsBingo!

Bingo in Swedish Is Bingo: An Interview with Krister Fredriksson

Mats Bigert and Krister FredrikssonPlaying the numbers in a Lutheran country

21 Aphorisms

John RobertsThe truth of the accidental

Marilyn Monroe and I

Jesse LernerFernando Sampietro, US mass culture, and the Latin American left

Marilyn Monroe y yo

Fernando SampietroThe first English translation

Trickster Eye

Frances RichardSome thoughts on ocular prostheses

Stalk Photography

Gregory WilliamsAll face and no name

Whitescapes

David BatchelorHorrible, implacable, murderous

Artist Project / The City

Justine KurlandUp, up, and away

The Encryption Wars: An Interview with Eben Moglen

Jay Worthington and Eben MoglenPrivacy, freedom, and the digital divide

The Love-Bug

Luke MurphyGoing viral

Anachronistic Modernism

Tan LinNumbers stations, static, and the Cold War of poetry

1485.0 kHz

Carl Michael von Hausswolff, assisted by M. S. C. HardingFriedrich Jürgenson and the voices of the dead

My Mother, My Medium

Jon DrydenA family vehicle

Invented Languages

Speaking Martian

Daniel RosenbergHélène Smith’s extraterrestrial séances

The Alien Argot of the Avant-Garde

Christian BökTalking with the Taelons

CD Insert / abs TruCt heh GarBagt

Charles Bernstein, Christian Bök, and Steve McCafferySonic renditions of imaginary languages

Artist Project / Himalayan Journal

Xu BingThe language of landscape

Öyvind Fahlström’s Aviary

A. S. BessaBirdo, Fåglo, Whammo

Esperanto: An Interview with Sabira Ståhlberg

Nina Katchadourian and Sabira StåhlbergStill alive and kicking

War

Inadvertent Memory

Laura KurganSurveilling Kosovo

NATO as Architectural Critic

Srdjan Jovanovic WeissDestruction and classification

Belgrade Architecture and the War

Vladimir KulicA victory without a victor

Something Where There Should Be Nothing

Renata SaleclOn war and anxiety

And

Artist Project: Postcard / The Non-Binding Relation of Intellectual Health to Sexual Excellence

Luke MurphyAnother mind-body problem

Artist Project / Flies

David ScherAlways up for a spanking

Artist Project / Face

David ScherTo prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet

Web Extras

RECORDINGS OF NUMBERS STATIONS
Peter Lew
The radio mysteries

FÅGLAR I SVERIGE
Öyvind Fahlström
A sample from the radio play

TUNING IN TO THE DEAD
Friedrich Jürgenson
The world’s first recordings of “Electronic Voice Phenomena”

A SONG IN ESPERANTO
Jormat kaj Natasa
Kanto por la aĝoj

“THE ENCRYPTION WARS”
Jay Worthington and Eben Moglen
A complete transcript of the interview

UPDATE ON THE “ENCRYPTION WARS”
Jay Worthington
Additional resources