Issue 12 The Enemy Fall/Winter 2003

Table of Contents

The twelfth issue of Cabinet is 128 pages and features a special section on "The Enemy." Artist projects include Thomas Dworzak's found portraits of Taliban soldiers and work by Justine Kurland, Joy Garnett, The Speculative Archive, and Gianni Motti. A must-see issue for everyone who has ever had or been an enemy. Don't miss the portfolio of doodles by US presidents.

Columns
  • The Clean Room / SARS Poetica
    David Serlin
    Illness, fashion, and the branding of epidemics
  • Thing / No. 1
    David Byrne, Nib Westingford and Todd Wider
    Your guess is as good as ours!
  • Leftovers / Love Locks
    Deborah Lutz
    Amorous hair jewelry
  • Colors / Chartreuse
    Lynne Tillman
    Glimmering vile and beautiful
Main
  • Terrain Vague
    Jeff Byles
    The sublime art of demolition
  • Artist Project / Collateral Damage
    Gianni Motti
    Introduced by Anselm Franke
  • Ethereal Body: The Quest for Ectoplasm
    Marina Warner
    Seeing is believing
  • Totality: The Color of Eclipse
    Ann Carson
    In the uncanny shadow of the Moon
  • Darkness Visible
    Tom Vanderbilt
    Superblack, the blackest black of all
  • A National Automobile for a National Economy
    Michael Stevenson
    Monocultures, motorcars, and New Zealand's Trekka experiment
  • Trainschedulespotting
    Paul Collins
    Turning back the clock on timetables
  • Presidential Doodles
    Jonathan Ames
    Sometimes a missile is just a missile
  • Cabinetlandia: Update No. 1
    Sina Najafi
    Notes from Luna County
The Enemy
  • The Ontology of the Enemy: An Interview with Peter Gallison
    Sina Najafi and Peter Galison
    The battlefield and cybernetic vision
  • Listening for the Enemy
    Brian Dillon
    The sound mirrors of Dungeness
  • Night Lights
    Mats Bigert
    Eindhoven in the shadows of the Protector Lamp
  • Artist Project / Taliban
    Thomas Dworzak
  • The Past Is in Flames: An Interview with Rebecca Knuth
    Jeffrey Kastner and Rebecca Knuth
    The destruction of books as a tool of war
  • Paper Bullets: An Interview with Herbert A. Friedman
    John Peffer and Herbert A. Friedman
    On the history of airborne propaganda
  • Artist Project / Narrative of Sdurn
    The Speculative Archive
  • The Losers: An Interview with Wolfgang Schivelbusch
    Sina Najafi, Jay Worthington and Wolfgang Schivelbusch
    Toward a philosophy of defeat
  • Annals of a Fortress
    Jay Worthington
    Twenty-two centuries of sieges, as seen from Viollet-le-Duc's La Roche Pont
  • Fighting Words
    A selection of quotes on the enemy
  • Artist Project / Birds of Freedom
    Justine Kurland
  • New Model Army: An Interview with Michael van Lent
    Jay Worthington and Michael van Lent
    Computer gaming and the future of military training
  • Burning Down the House
    An Architektur
    World War II bomb testing in Utah
  • Talking to My Old Science Teacher about Drawings in which I Killed Him
    Brian McMullen
    Business Reply Mail abuse, beard theory, and makeshift gallows
And
  • Postcard 1 / News
    Joy Garnett
  • Postcard 2 / Taliban-Modified Street Sign
    Thomas Dworzak
  • Bookmark / How to Make a Shrunken Head
    Fia Backström
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