This issue of the First Condition is produced as our contribution to Paul O’Neill’s project Coalesce the Remix. We invited all the participants in the project and all of the audience on the launch night to contribute, with the brief of writing about the Coalesce project and issues arising from it. We have published all contributions verbatim. Contents: A Broad Private Wink, or how to drop, plot and spot things that aren’t really there by Maria Fusco A Topology of Synthetic Pleasure by Paul O’Neill Shake Gently by Dave Beech On Expertise, Curation and the Possibility of the Public by Mark Hutchinson Coalesce Press Release