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Volume 5 (2013) Outsourcing

“Outsourcing” conjures up a constellation of interconnected terms: labor, production, transportation, displacement, consumption. We wanted to stretch our idea of this term from a form of modern-day corporate colonialism to an examination of outsourcing on a more intimate and aesthetic level. The works in this issue look at the ways in which we transport our efforts, artistic or otherwise, onto other things, places, and products. They examine how the labor of maintaining personal well- being can be outsourced to the icons we worship, the pets we keep, the futures we imagine; how we consume and displace each other in a variety of ways.

Articles

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Table of Contents
SPECS JOURNAL

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Screw
Anderson Cook

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Swans in Retrograde
Marvin I. Guymon

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Product Of
Cathy Colborn

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Product Of (detail)
Cathy Colborn

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Thug Sonnets
Matt Reeck

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Ivan Monbrison

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Ivan Monbrison

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Ivan Monbrison

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Contributors
SPECS JOURNAL

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Outsourced Library
Cathy Colborn

Poems

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Schooled In Wandering
Molly Bendall

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In Motion
Molly Bendall

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Asylum Flourish
Molly Bendall

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Y
Changming Yuan

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Red Cross
Anna Elena Eyre

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my pearl
Jaylee Alde

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Of Things Tangible
Sandy Olson Hill

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Guns in the Basement
Michelle Matthees

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Eastern Orphan Subtext
Michelle Matthees

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Something Understood
Michelle Matthees

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American Experiment
Glenn Shaheen

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Europe
Glenn Shaheen

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Gaza
Glenn Shaheen

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More
Eliza Tudor

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Death Comes to Town
Scott Fynboe

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April 3, 8PM CT
Scott Fynboe

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Selections from "Leafmold"
F. Daniel Rzicznek

Issue 1 Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Vidhu Aggarwal

Managing Editor

Arianna A. Garofalo

Web Editors

Daniel Fanelli, Jakub Wielicki

Production Editor

Jonathan Pamplin

Marketing and Public Relations Manager

Jeanne Genis

Critical Editors

Julian Chambliss, Jeanne Genis

Associate Editors

Daniel Fanelli, Arianna A. Garofalo, Alexis Goolkasian, Jonathan Pamplin, Kelly Sheldon, Jakub Wielicki

Advisory Board

Jennifer Ailles, Elizabeth Binggeli, Denise Cummings, Mario D’Amato, Creston Davis, Phillip F. Deaver, John Elias, Connie May Fowler, Carol Frost, Walter Gleason, Claire Jenkins, James Penner, Paul Reich, Dawn Roe, Jeff Solomon, Anne Zimmerman, Slavoj Zizek

Editors at Large

Tanya Grae, Eric Finer, Sandra Johnson, Francesca Mastrangelo