Cabinet magazine
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Cabinet is a quarterly magazine of arts and culture that believes curiosity is the very basis of ethics.
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Enjoyed Igor Bezinović’s new film about Gabriele D’Annunzio’s creation of the Italian Regency of Carnaro, founded in 1919 and dissolved in 1920? Check out Reinaldo Laddaga’s article on the Fiume adventure from issue 58: “A City for Poets and Pirates.”
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November 27, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Enjoyed Igor Bezinović’s new film about Gabriele D’Annunzio’s creation of the Italian Regency of Carnaro, founded in 1919 and dissolved in 1920? Check out Reinaldo Laddaga’s article on the Fiume adventure from issue 58: “A City for Poets and Pirates.”
www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/58/la...
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In light of Serbia’s not-at-all-corrupt deal with Jared Kushner to redevelop the site of the monumental former Army Headquarters in Belgrade, we return to Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss’s history of this extraordinary modernist building, bombed by NATO in 1999.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM
In light of Serbia’s not-at-all-corrupt deal with Jared Kushner to redevelop the site of the monumental former Army Headquarters in Belgrade, we return to Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss’s history of this extraordinary modernist building, bombed by NATO in 1999.
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“Where Western eyes insist on finding Greece and only Greece, Syros insists on showing us the world.”
McNeil Taylor on the Crown Iris protests on Syros and the overlapping fantasies, from within & out, that are called on to define “Greece.”
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McNeil Taylor on the Crown Iris protests on Syros and the overlapping fantasies, from within & out, that are called on to define “Greece.”
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Against Insularity | McNeil Taylor
Hellenism, Zionism, and the Greek Archipelago
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November 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“Where Western eyes insist on finding Greece and only Greece, Syros insists on showing us the world.”
McNeil Taylor on the Crown Iris protests on Syros and the overlapping fantasies, from within & out, that are called on to define “Greece.”
www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/71/ta...
McNeil Taylor on the Crown Iris protests on Syros and the overlapping fantasies, from within & out, that are called on to define “Greece.”
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"Amid this transformation, the walls of Berlin, a city often compared to Babylon, go on talking like the work of so many disembodied hands, delivering messages whose ultimate import we cannot fully comprehend, even as political authorities would prefer us not to see them."
In our latest article, Alex Cocotas reflects on Berlin, the effacement of Gaza graffiti, and the writing on the wall. “The dream of the West is to grieve tomorrow for what we could have prevented today.”
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In Gaza Dies Your Western Dream | Alex Cocotas
Berlin, Palestine, and the writing on the wall
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October 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
"Amid this transformation, the walls of Berlin, a city often compared to Babylon, go on talking like the work of so many disembodied hands, delivering messages whose ultimate import we cannot fully comprehend, even as political authorities would prefer us not to see them."
In our latest article, Alex Cocotas reflects on Berlin, the effacement of Gaza graffiti, and the writing on the wall. “The dream of the West is to grieve tomorrow for what we could have prevented today.”
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In Gaza Dies Your Western Dream | Alex Cocotas
Berlin, Palestine, and the writing on the wall
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October 6, 2025 at 9:08 PM
In our latest article, Alex Cocotas reflects on Berlin, the effacement of Gaza graffiti, and the writing on the wall. “The dream of the West is to grieve tomorrow for what we could have prevented today.”
www.cabinetmagazine.org/kiosk/cocota...
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Heman Chong’s artist project on the back entrances of embassies, with an introductory essay by Adam Jasper, is now online!
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Artist Project / Embassies and Consulates | Heman Chong
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September 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Heman Chong’s artist project on the back entrances of embassies, with an introductory essay by Adam Jasper, is now online!
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“When I was a little boy, I liked to pick my nose. In fact, I’ve enjoyed picking my nose for most of my life. This is not something to be proud of, but telling you about my nosepicking brings me to the word bice.”
Jonathan Ames on bice from issue 1:
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Jonathan Ames on bice from issue 1:
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September 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
“When I was a little boy, I liked to pick my nose. In fact, I’ve enjoyed picking my nose for most of my life. This is not something to be proud of, but telling you about my nosepicking brings me to the word bice.”
Jonathan Ames on bice from issue 1:
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Jonathan Ames on bice from issue 1:
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'In 1953, while working a hotel switchboard, a college graduate named Shea Zellweger began a journey of wonder and obsession that would eventually lead to the invention of a radically new notation for logic' @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social
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August 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
'In 1953, while working a hotel switchboard, a college graduate named Shea Zellweger began a journey of wonder and obsession that would eventually lead to the invention of a radically new notation for logic' @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social
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For our latest Inventory column, Jim Moske explores a beguiling collection of images from the NASA archives: photographs of flameholders, taken mainly in the 1940s and 1950s, which seem like cousins once removed of Dada experimentation.
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July 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
For our latest Inventory column, Jim Moske explores a beguiling collection of images from the NASA archives: photographs of flameholders, taken mainly in the 1940s and 1950s, which seem like cousins once removed of Dada experimentation.
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Amanda Feilding wasn’t only a leading propagandist for drilling a hole in one’s head but also an early advocate for therapeutic psychedelics and drug policy reform. She died last month, aged 82. Read Christopher Turner’s article on Feilding from issue 28.
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Like a Hole in the Head | Christopher Turner
The trepanation-state
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June 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Amanda Feilding wasn’t only a leading propagandist for drilling a hole in one’s head but also an early advocate for therapeutic psychedelics and drug policy reform. She died last month, aged 82. Read Christopher Turner’s article on Feilding from issue 28.
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NEW ARTICLE: James G. Harper and Philip W. Scher discuss German anthropologist Julius Lips’s groundbreaking treatise on African, Indigenous Australian, and Oceanic depictions of foreigners, “The Savage Hits Back, or, The White Man through Native Eyes.”
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Looking Back at the White Man | James G. Harper and Philip W. Scher
The story of Julius Lips
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June 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
NEW ARTICLE: James G. Harper and Philip W. Scher discuss German anthropologist Julius Lips’s groundbreaking treatise on African, Indigenous Australian, and Oceanic depictions of foreigners, “The Savage Hits Back, or, The White Man through Native Eyes.”
www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/69/ha...
www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/69/ha...
In Berlin? Or within one week’s hiking distance? Come visit Cabinet at the Miss Read art book fair next week hosted by Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW). We will be selling books, magazines, and posters, and would love to meet our readers!
June 5, 2025 at 9:47 AM
In Berlin? Or within one week’s hiking distance? Come visit Cabinet at the Miss Read art book fair next week hosted by Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW). We will be selling books, magazines, and posters, and would love to meet our readers!
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"complicity, wrapped in the cloth of remembrance"... Chilling. Makes one think of what Sarah El Bulbeisi has written on the German taboo on Palestinian trauma in a critique, that is urgently relevant to analyses of current German foreign policy and memory politics cabinetmagazine.org/kiosk/el_bul...
May 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
"complicity, wrapped in the cloth of remembrance"... Chilling. Makes one think of what Sarah El Bulbeisi has written on the German taboo on Palestinian trauma in a critique, that is urgently relevant to analyses of current German foreign policy and memory politics cabinetmagazine.org/kiosk/el_bul...
Read the statement by Sara Nadal-Melsió—associate director of the Whitney Independent Study Program—regarding the Whitney’s cancellation of “No Aesthetics Outside My Freedom: Mourning, Militancy, and Performance.”
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Statement by ISP Associate Director Regarding the Whitney’s Cancellation of “No Aesthetics Outside My Freedom: Mourning, Militancy, and Performance” and the ISP Cohort’s Response | Cabinet
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May 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Read the statement by Sara Nadal-Melsió—associate director of the Whitney Independent Study Program—regarding the Whitney’s cancellation of “No Aesthetics Outside My Freedom: Mourning, Militancy, and Performance.”
www.cabinetmagazine.org/kiosk/nadal_...
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In “Shoah,” a Jewish barber cuts hair while recounting the atrocities he witnessed during the Holocaust. In “Route 181,” a Palestinian barber cuts hair while describing a massacre of Palestinians during the Nakba. A trial in Paris turned on how to read these two parallel scenes.
May 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
In “Shoah,” a Jewish barber cuts hair while recounting the atrocities he witnessed during the Holocaust. In “Route 181,” a Palestinian barber cuts hair while describing a massacre of Palestinians during the Nakba. A trial in Paris turned on how to read these two parallel scenes.
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As it’s his birthday, please enjoy David Byrne digging into surprising histories of the colour pink in this article for @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social
“Needless to say, suggesting that prison cells be painted pink was not an immediately popular idea…” www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/11/by...
“Needless to say, suggesting that prison cells be painted pink was not an immediately popular idea…” www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/11/by...
Colors / Pink | David Byrne
Not so sweet after all
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May 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
As it’s his birthday, please enjoy David Byrne digging into surprising histories of the colour pink in this article for @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social
“Needless to say, suggesting that prison cells be painted pink was not an immediately popular idea…” www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/11/by...
“Needless to say, suggesting that prison cells be painted pink was not an immediately popular idea…” www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/11/by...
“What sort of a life is it if we are to rest in shifts and not together as a whole proletariat? It is no holiday if you have to have it alone.” On this May Day, why not read Tony Wood’s “Labor Days: Reinventing the Workweek in the Soviet Union” from issue 61?
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Labor Days | Tony Wood
Reinventing the workweek in the Soviet Union
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May 1, 2025 at 12:15 PM
“What sort of a life is it if we are to rest in shifts and not together as a whole proletariat? It is no holiday if you have to have it alone.” On this May Day, why not read Tony Wood’s “Labor Days: Reinventing the Workweek in the Soviet Union” from issue 61?
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We published a new artist project today: “Anchor and Archive: The Uprooting of Palestinian Olive Trees,” a series of photographs taken by @adambroomberg.bsky.social and Rafael Gonzalez in the West Bank, with an introduction by Irus Braverman.
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April 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
We published a new artist project today: “Anchor and Archive: The Uprooting of Palestinian Olive Trees,” a series of photographs taken by @adambroomberg.bsky.social and Rafael Gonzalez in the West Bank, with an introduction by Irus Braverman.
www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/69/br...
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NEW ARTICLE: Reed McConnell’s “Academic Discipline,” which investigates the tradition of Karzer, German university prisons where students (such as Karl Marx) were sent for a range of offenses: dueling, making a nocturnal racket, and leading vagabond-like lifestyles. @reedreedreed.bsky.social
March 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
NEW ARTICLE: Reed McConnell’s “Academic Discipline,” which investigates the tradition of Karzer, German university prisons where students (such as Karl Marx) were sent for a range of offenses: dueling, making a nocturnal racket, and leading vagabond-like lifestyles. @reedreedreed.bsky.social
Two of Cabinet’s editors recently had the opportunity to chat about the past and future of the magazine with book critic Alexander Wells (@ajbwells.bsky.social). Read the full interview in this month’s issue of The Berliner.
March 21, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Two of Cabinet’s editors recently had the opportunity to chat about the past and future of the magazine with book critic Alexander Wells (@ajbwells.bsky.social). Read the full interview in this month’s issue of The Berliner.
We are saddened to learn that artist Rutherford Chang has passed away. In 2004, Rutherford proposed a spectacular poster for our “Average” issue: The New York Times’s front page with every section’s words cut out (by hand!) and reordered alphabetically.
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Artist Project / Poster Insert: Alphabetized Newspaper | Rutherford Chang
Edition late
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February 13, 2025 at 4:52 PM
We are saddened to learn that artist Rutherford Chang has passed away. In 2004, Rutherford proposed a spectacular poster for our “Average” issue: The New York Times’s front page with every section’s words cut out (by hand!) and reordered alphabetically.
www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/15/ch...
www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/15/ch...
Reflecting on the origins of “totalitarianism”—a system that preserves the form of competitive democracy while, in reality, gutting it—after voting in the New York elections and after reading Samuel Clowes Huneke’s essay in @bostonreview.bsky.social.
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February 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Reflecting on the origins of “totalitarianism”—a system that preserves the form of competitive democracy while, in reality, gutting it—after voting in the New York elections and after reading Samuel Clowes Huneke’s essay in @bostonreview.bsky.social.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/sam...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/sam...
Copenhagen readers! On 17 February, Ark Books is holding a philosophy reading group discussion based on @hunterdukes.bsky.social recent essay “Kojève & Cigarettes: Fact-checking American Geist.”
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February 6, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Copenhagen readers! On 17 February, Ark Books is holding a philosophy reading group discussion based on @hunterdukes.bsky.social recent essay “Kojève & Cigarettes: Fact-checking American Geist.”
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www.cabinetmagazine.org/kiosk/dukes_...
Photographs of works by Larry Moss and Ralph Dewey, two American contemporary balloon practitioners—the latter a pioneer of evangelical “gospel ballooning.”
Jonathan Allen’s article “Pop Art: Inflationary Aesthetics” is now unlocked.
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Jonathan Allen’s article “Pop Art: Inflationary Aesthetics” is now unlocked.
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January 31, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Photographs of works by Larry Moss and Ralph Dewey, two American contemporary balloon practitioners—the latter a pioneer of evangelical “gospel ballooning.”
Jonathan Allen’s article “Pop Art: Inflationary Aesthetics” is now unlocked.
www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/37/al...
Jonathan Allen’s article “Pop Art: Inflationary Aesthetics” is now unlocked.
www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/37/al...
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Wrote a short piece for this celebration of Matt Freedman, “One for the Ages,” on collaborating with him for the weird and wonderful “Iron Artist” competition at @momaps1.bsky.social in Summer 2006. The book is available through @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social
January 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Wrote a short piece for this celebration of Matt Freedman, “One for the Ages,” on collaborating with him for the weird and wonderful “Iron Artist” competition at @momaps1.bsky.social in Summer 2006. The book is available through @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social