This first journal contains the works of Brenda Iijima, Andrew Schelling, Bethany Minton, Jefferson Navicky, Adrienne Dodt, Marie Larson, Amanda Courie, John J Courie, Nicholas A DeBoer, J Townsend, Stephanie Goldfarb, Thom Donovan and CAConrad.
In his landmark conceptual work, "Process and Reality," British philosopher Alfred North Whitehead states, “how an actual entity becomes constitutes what that actual entity is." Whitehead also introduces to this discussion the term “concrescence,” which his editor Donald Sherbourne summarizes as “the growing together of a many into the unity of a one.
'Con-' confidence trick, the flesh as specter. Trickery in between apparitions, “in the middle of what leaves and what arrives, at the articulation between what absents itself and what presents itself," the crescent shape. The threshold between the word and the spectacle, that semiotic growth which is, “the sun that never sets on the empire of modern passivity." Moonlight gives guidance to our ships, and in the trick, our entrance to the palimpsest before us.