Volume 13, No. 1
November 2000
Urban Legends & the Challenges of Standardization
An Artificial Line, or Technology as Spectrology
Cover: Phantoms surround us, in no small measure because of technologies that allow images to outlive their makers. This cover to the 1901 edition of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, first published in 1897, shows the Count scaling a castle wall and terrifying a mere mortal. See Jay Pawlowski’s linking of 19th-century communication technologies and the powers of disembodied likenesses. See Aristotle Tympas’s history of phantom circuits, in electronics and in political economy.