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Gustav Zander

These images come from a catalogue distributed by “Görransson’s mekaniska verkstad”, a gymnastics equipment company, and are reproduced in a book published by Dr. Alfred Levertin on Dr. G. Zander’s Medico-Mechanische Gymastik (1892). Aside from the shock of seeing the gymgoers’ choice of athletic wear (thick three-piece suits with pocket watches affixed on chains), there is something uncanny about the marked lack of exertion displayed on Zander’s patients’ faces. As Thomas explains, unlike contemporary Peloton and Crossfit leaderboards, which prioritize competition and reward individual effort, Zander’s technology was marketed as a passive activity — with some devices even driven by steam, gasoline, or electricity. All one had to do was connect their body to the machine and it would do the work for them. . . or so they were told. From Public Domain Review: publicdomainreview.org/collection/zander-gym. For more on Zander, see the article by Carolyn de la Pena at www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/29/pena.php
Fiction

Destination Unknown

He ate while the riverboat waited for passengers to board. Then he took off the cloth cover of the birdcage, set the cage on his thighs and began feeding the myna with leftover sweet rice.

Khanh HaMay 2022May 2022
Nonfiction

Sextonic Plates

When my mother opened my bedroom door and asked me if I was responsible for the house shaking, my initial hypothesis dissolved the way a spiderweb fissures with the help of a swaying hand.

Victoria BuitronMay 2022May 2022
Poetry

Without One Plea (and other poems)

I might have been content with looking/ out a window early mornings over coffee, two more hours/ of overtime the only thing I’m thinking.

Jeff HardinMay 2022May 2022

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