Andrei Codrescu, The Disappearance of the Outside.

Gary Koepke's cartoonish ladder not only evokes the 'escape' of the subtitle but also triggers the questions of what and where is outside - over the wall? Koepke is a director with the Modernista advertising agency, who was hired by the firm Gap to produce major sales campaigns. The American publisher Addison-Wesley is best known for scientific and technological publications; not for producing political-cultural treatises such as this.