A Guide To the Scientific Knowledge of Things Familiar

"Herman Melville performing jumping jacks. An experimental Brazilian filmmaker making British propaganda films. A legendary delta bluesman who prefers to play the pop hits of the day. In SCIENCE OF THINGS FAMILIAR, Johnny Damm sifts through cultural detritus to disturb the sleeping past. In an uncategorizable mix of image and text, SCIENCE OF THINGS FAMILIAR scavenges from 50's pulp comics, 19th century scientific diagrams, film noir shooting scripts, and more. Damm introduces the reader to an American landscape of bastard blendings, where the familiar. swiftly gives way to the uncanny"--Publisher's website.