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Summer 2011

Columns

Inventory / Key Dates in the History of Clown Crime

Andrew McConnell StottFunny strange

Legend / The Surgeon

Wayne KoestenbaumOur gang, before the final war

Ingestion / Peoples’ Friendship Salad and Other Culinary Expressions of Brotherhood

Elena SorokinaThe mayonnaise is the message

Colors / Drab

Aaron KuninThe hues of an “immajnari karrakter”

Main

Thinking Inside the Box

Christopher TurnerWilhelm Reich and the invention of sex

Artist Project / Untitled

Amie Siegel

No, Oedipus Does Not Exist

Jamieson Webster and Ben KafkaAnalyze this

Dark at Heart

Jocko WeylandEvaluating the pain of others

The Ethics of Rubbernecking

Justin E. H. SmithThe propriety of the spectacle

The Behavioral Sink

Will WilesThe mouse universes of John B. Calhoun

Creative Evolution

Alexander R. GallowayNils Aall Barricelli’s mathematical organisms

Artist Project / Reviving the Habit

Julia Sherman

Well, Ada Clare!

John StrausbaughThe queen of the bohemians

Forgetting

Who Knows This Man?

George ProchnikThe mysterious amnesiac of Collegno

The Memory Hole Has Teeth

D. Graham Burnett and Sal RandolphToward a field guide to shred

The Theater of Forgetting

Peter GalisonScenes of censorship

Historical Amnesias: An Interview with Paul Connerton

Jeffrey Kastner, Sina Najafi, and Paul ConnertonSeven types of forgetting

Artist Projects / Monument to Forgetting

John Beech, Eigil Zu Tage-Ravn, Teresa Hubbard & Alexander Birchler, Liz Glynn, and Olav Westphalen

Forgetting Derrida, Forgiving Freud

Barry SandersOut of sight, but not of mind

Selective Memory: An Interview with Londa Schiebinger

Alistair Sponsel and Londa SchiebingerThe forgotten knowledge of herbal abortifacients