Issue 13 Futures Spring 2004

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.

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