Off the Map—October 2013

Off the Map

October 2013 – Volume 1, Number 4

Initially, we meant this to be a ‘blank’ issue, one in which we didn’t tie the content together with a theme. But when the articles started coming in, a more natural theme developed: one concerned with a geography of absence and hidden traces. By going off existing maps, we create new ones.

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Editor-in-Chief: Christopher Heaney
Executive Editor: Benjamin Breen
Managing Editor: Felipe Fernandes Cruz
Publisher: Brian Jones
Editor: Amy Kohout
Local History Editor: Hannah Carney
Copy Editor: J.R. Jones, Andrea Kinnison, Shannon Nagy

1.
Letter From the Editors
2.
Letters to The Appendix
3.
Mapping Babel: A Sixteenth-Century Indigenous Map from Mexico By Barbara E. Mundy
4.
Cropped Out: Environmental History Through a Car Window By Emily Brownell
5.
Off the Record By Mattias Fibiger
6.
Death of a Sailor: Chapter 3: The Locked Room By Christopher Heaney
7.
White Nights By Maya Koretzky
8.
Indelible Ink: The Deep History of Tattoo Removal By Mairin Odle
9.
The Politics of the Turtle Feast By India Mandelkern
10.
Animal Kingdoms By Noble Katherine
11.
Reclaiming a Fugitive Landscape By Susanna Ashton and Jonathan D. Hepworth
12.
Proto-Spam: Spanish Prisoners and Confidence Games By Robert Whitaker
13.
Made in Taiwan?: An Eighteenth-Century Frenchman’s Fictional Formosa By Benjamin Breen
14.
The Curse of Coherence: Cold War CIA Funding for Oulipo’s Confidence-Man By Roy Scranton
15.
Voice Hero: The Inventor of Karaoke Speaks By Daisuke Inoue and Robert Scott
16.
The Golden Likeness By Ariel Ron
17.
The Silence of Our Friends By Hannah Carney
18.
Feet First: Walking in Houston By Kyle Shelton
19.
Excerpt: March, Book One By John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
20.
March: Interview with Nate Powell and Andrew Aydin By Christopher Heaney
21.
The Appendix, Appendixed. By Kevin Cannon