Plates Journal Issue 02: Cipher

Plates Issue 02: Cipher engages with concepts of code and code-switching. Using a diverse range of approaches that span both fiction and non-fiction, the seven contributions that appear in Issue 02 present insights into the languages both shared and secret, public and personal, that infiltrate and define the contemporary world.Contents:1. Letter from the Editor2. Cayuga Street by Bre Skye3. Fugere Urbem: Aesthetics, Politics, and Class in Violeira’s Languages of the Non-Urban by Cecília Resende Santos4. The Preset, the Generic, and an Ambivalent Politics of Non-Production: A Conversation 5. Between Thomas Smith and Richard B. Keys by Richard B. Keys6. The Gross Gloss: Scorpio by Alan Perry; illustrations in collaboration with Richard Domenico7. P = NP by I.L. Smith8. Green Flowers by Jordan Davey-Emms9. Bird’s the Word: A Cipher in a 17th-Century Sampler by Isabella RosnerAuthor(s): VariousEditor: Casey CarselDesign: Unyimeabasi UdohYear: 2020Cover: SoftcoverLanguage: English