"Prepare to hold the hand of Fear's Accomplice and be guided through a world of terror. Along the way you will encounter all manner of frights, from unmentionable supernatural beings to pure human evil, and all the absurdity that falls into the dark spaces in between. Will you crumble after the first tale or can you stomach it to the death? Herein lie horror short stories from some of the best modern writers you will ever come across."
"This book focuses interest in contemporary art onto the practice of art history itself, including essays by three of the leading practitioners: Ian McLean, Amelia Barikin, and Terry Smith."
"... design theorist Akiko Busch has argued that our current social, cultural and
intellectual investment in objects may be in part a reaction to the virtual age in
which we increasingly live. She writes: With our cell-phones, email, assorted
forms of wireless communication, the elusive corri- dors of cyberspace have
whetted our appetite for what we can touch, hold, taste, see. In the virtual age, the
sorcery of the physical has int ..."