CONTENTS ~

'Philosophical Intelligence t9ffice Decrescendo ...................... 6

]OHN SUMMERS

Jalvos Too Smartto Fail ................ I 0 Notes on an age of Jolly

THOMAS FRANK

I Was a Teenage Gramlich ........................ 28

JrM NEWELL

Ronald Reagan's Imaginary Bridges ............... 3 8

RICK PERLSTEIN

Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit .................... 66

DAVID GRABBER

Future Schlock .................. 9 0 Creating the crap of tomorrow at the MIT Media Lab

WILL BorsvERT

Revolt of the Gadgets ........... IOI

RoBERT S. EsHELMAN

~he CJJollar CJJebauch Water World ............. · . · · · · · · 54

CHRIS LEHMANN

Into the Infinite The Animal Cure ................ 60

BARBARA EHRENRE I CII

~tes ~ !fl.!Jotes Smells Like ... .................. · .. 9

EuGENIA WrLLIAMSON

My Own Little Mission ........... I 8

DuBRAVKA UGRES I C

Disposable Hip ................ . I07

G. B EATO

Jtories GiveHertoMe ................ . I28

LUDMILLA PETRUSHEVSKAYA

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KrM STANLEY RoBINSON

Edge Lands .................... . I40

CHRIS N. BROWN

J;jves of the 'Pundits Omniscient Gentlemen ofTheAtlantic .................. II2

MAUREEN TKACIK

'Poems Experts are Puzzled .............. . I7

LAURA RID I N G

Odi Barbare ..................... 2I

GEOFFREY H I LL

Strike! .......................... 47

CHARLES BERNSTE I N

Syria Renga ..................... 8 8

MARILYN HACKER

Snow Globe .... . ............... I OO

PETER Grzz r

Breaking Stones ................ I 58

NrRALA

Little Princess, or the One-Eyed Girl. ............. . I66

NrRALA

CJJocumentia We Told You So .................. 22 ] AMES K. GALBRAITH

vl.ncestors Cotton Tenants ................ . I $2 Three families

]AMES AG E E

CJJa.fflers ...................... I78

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