Continuum: London and New York. ISBN 0-8264-5884-X. Is Physiognomy Humorous? Kim Toffoletti Even before turning the first page, Adrian Mackenzie's Transductions: Bodies and Machines at Speed speaks volumes. The cover imagery is…
London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-25120-6 (hbk), 0-415-25121-4 (pbk) Is Physiognomy Humorous? Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius We are not at all short of theories of humour and laughter, coming as they…
Translated by Stefan Herbrechter The global mnemotechnical system Humans die but their histories remain -- this is the big difference between mankind and other life forms. Among these traces most…
PAOLO VERONESE: I have experience with dinners of this scale. They seem intimate at the time but this illusion is relative to the kind of space involved. In this case,…
Paolo Veronese's Feast in the House of Levi (1573). Ackeracy was initiated in response to an invitation to contribute to a memorial project for Kathy Acker and several other artists.…
Great! Great! Perfect! Perfect! Perfect! Perfect! Great! Miss. Miss. Miss. A crowd encircles Sam, who is staring downwards, stomping his feet on the dance floor, building up a sweat. The…
To Western eyes, the stars receded after the discovery that light's transmission occurred at a finite speed -- and not, as had been assumed, instantaneously. Roemer's astronomical finding of 1676…
In 1638 the Reverend John Wilkins, founder member of the prestigious Royal Society of London, keen taxonomist and contemporary of Newton, Hooke, Boyle and Wren, published a short discourse '.…
Sometime in the late '60s my father took me to see the film 2001 A Space Odyssey. I think he was bored, whereas, even at seven or eight years old,…
In 1968, the year of the student-worker riots in Paris and one year after Jacques Derrida published his debut trio Writing and Difference, Speech and Phenomena, and Of Grammatology, a…