David Serlin
The Clean Room / Producing Surgery on the Internet
Is the rectum a cinema?
Issue 1 / Invented Languages / Winter 2000–2001
The Clean Room / Love Machines
Unwinding the technology of the Scopitone
Issue 2 / Mapping Conversations / Spring 2001
The Clean Room / Some Like It Cold
Engineering the “personal environment”
Issue 3 / Weather / Summer 2001
The Clean Room / Making the Jaipur Foot
A DIY prosthetic with a local identity
Issue 4 / Animals / Fall 2001
The Clean Room / Wrestling with the “Digital Angel”
The body electronic
Issue 5 / Evil / Winter 2001–2002
The Clean Room / Reading the Working Body after September 11
Marked by labor and leisure
Issue 6 / Horticulture / Spring 2002
The Invention of Failure: An Interview with Scott A. Sandage
Falling short in America
Issue 7 / Failure / Summer 2002
The Clean Room / The New Face of Terrorism
The uses and misuses of C. botulinum
Issue 7 / Failure / Summer 2002
Me, Myself, and Super-Me: An Interview with David Healy
The rise of the lifestyle drug
Issue 8 / Pharmacopia / Fall 2002
The Clean Room / Just Say No to Eucalyptus
The canine algebra of need
Issue 8 / Pharmacopia / Fall 2002
Where the Wild Things Were: An Interview with Leonard S. Marcus
The history of children’s literature from Orbis Pictus to The Rabbits’ Wedding
Issue 9 / Childhood / Winter 2002/03
The Clean Room / Superfly Me to the Moon
Race, physiology, and the culture of aerospace science
Issue 9 / Childhood / Winter 2002/03
The Clean Room / Giants, Neither Green Nor Jolly
Ecology, technology, and sustainable skyscraper design
Issue 10 / Property / Spring 2003
The Mile High Club
Dummies go down
Issue 11 / Flight / Summer 2003
The Clean Room / Domesticating the Hiroshima Maidens
Plastic surgery after the atomic bomb
Issue 11 / Flight / Summer 2003
The Clean Room / SARS Poetica
Illness, fashion, and the branding of epidemics
Issue 12 / The Enemy / Fall/Winter 2003
By the Numbers: An Interview with William L. Bird, Jr.
Painting a picture of the middle class
Issue 15 / The Average / Fall 2004
Infectious Laughter
Kuru as metaphor
Issue 17 / Laughter / Spring 2005
Rolling the Dice: An Interview with Jackson Lears
Luck in America
Issue 19 / Chance / Fall 2005
Ready for Inspection: An Interview with Valentin Groebner
The early history of identity documents
Issue 22 / Insecurity / Summer 2006
Days of the Locust: An Interview with Jeffrey Lockwood
Inside the swarm
Issue 25 / Insects / Spring 2007
A Buried History of Paleontology
The remains of Waterhouse Hawkins
Issue 28 / Bones / Winter 2007–2008
The Broken Circuit: An Interview with Lauren Berlant
The political economy of shame
Issue 31 / Shame / Fall 2008
Learning at Your Fingertips
The Museum Extension Project and the pedagogy of the tactile
Issue 39 / Learning / Fall 2010
Leftovers / These Were Once Kings and Queens in Wax
After the fire at Madame Tussaud’s
Issue 54 / The Accident / Summer 2014