Table of Contents

The thirteenth issue of Cabinet features a themed section on "Futures." This section, guest-edited by Daniel Rosenberg, includes an audio CD, an artist project by Aziz + Cucher, an illustrated timeline of timelines, and Miryam Sas's English translation (the first ever) of Hirato Renkichi's Japanese Futurist Manifesto.

• Colors / Khaki
  Ben Marcus
  For the potential Hemingway in all of us
• Inventory / Fallen Figures & Heads: Leon Golub's Lists
  David Levi Strauss
  The poetry of the archive
• Ingestion / The Shelf-Life of Liquefying Objects
  Jamer Hunt
  Monuments go limp
• Leftovers / What to Do with a Worn-Out Koran
  Michael Cook
  A question of disposition

• Edison's Warriors
  Christoph Cox
  Deceive to defeat
• Triskelion
  Sasha Archibald
  The migrations of a symbol
• Border Sound Files: Excerpts from an Audio Essay
  Josh Kun
  Into Tijuana, through the aural aleph
• Borderline Archeology
  Jesse Lerner
  Janus-faced geography
• Data and Metadata: An Interview with Murtha Baca and Erin Coburn
  Eve Meltzer, Julia Meltzer, Murtha Baca and Erin Coburn
  You say Ugolini Lorenzetti, I saw Bartolommeo Bulgarini
• 100,000 Bottles of Beer in the Wall
  Paul Collins
  Alfred Heineken's recycling program
• Cutaneous: An Interview with Steven Connor
  Brian Dillon and Steven Connor
  On, in, through, and beneath the skin
• The Figurative Incarnation of the Sentence (Notes on the "Autographic" Skin)
  Georges Didi-Huberman
  Dermographia and the inscribed body
• The Hand Up Project: Attempting to Meet the New Needs of Natural Life-Forms
  Elizabeth Demaray
  A new home for the hermit crab

• Thinking Futures
  Daniel Rosenberg and Susan Harding
  Conspiracy, prophecy, and utopia
• Very Slow Scan Television
  Gebhard Sengmüller and Jakob Edlbacher
  Tune in, turn on, wait
• Desert Modernism
  Joseph Masco
  From the Nevada Test Site to Liberace's sequined suits
• Special CD Insert / Past Forward
  Curated by Brian Conley and Christoph Cox
  
• Artist Project / Naturalia
  Aziz + Cucher
  
• The Use of Drugs to Influence Time Experience
  Heroin to "lose the present," alcohol to make time "go faster"
• The Day before the Day After
  Waiting for JFK: Austin, Texas, 22 November 1963
• The Trouble with Timelines
  Daniel Rosenberg
  The measure of it all
• A Timeline of Timelines
  Sasha Archibald and Daniel Rosenberg
  A device turned on itself
• Phases of Life 1: The Artificial Foster-Mother
  Samantha Vincenty
  The birth of the incubator
• Phases of Life 2: The Family Room of Tomorrow
  Joseph Masco
  The domestic dreamspace, after the bomb
• Phases of Life 3: Living at Death's Door
  Nicholas Sammond
  Not dead yet
• Hummingbird Futures
  Daniel Rosenberg
  Theodor Nelson and the creation of hypertext
• The Veterans of Future Wars
  Susan Hamson
  Patriotism, prepaid
• The Sexual Archipelago
  Jessica Sewell
  Simon Spies's hydraulic pleasure palace
• The Eight-Fold Path to Knowing Ra
  Greg Rowland
  Space is the place
• The Martian Variations
  Covering War of the Worlds
• Scent from the Future
  Miryam Sas
  The hauntings, vanishings, and scents of Japanese Futurism
• Manifesto of the Japanese Futurist Movement
  Hirato Renkichi
  In Japanese and English
• The Cabinet Time Capsule
  A call for contributions

• Postcard / Message to the Future, 1897
  Gallop, Wilkins, Sainsbury, Chester & Pickernell
  
• Bookmark / Alien Timeline
  Joe Nickell