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The sixteenth issue of Cabinet features a themed section on "The Sea": a psychogeography of the California coast, the evolution of pirate flags, Lord Nelson, Captain Cook, and Catalan sub-mariner Narci­s Monturiol, for starters. Artist projects include work by The Atlas Group/Walid Raad, 2x4, Lars Tunbjork, Yto Barrada, Edward Burtynsky, Dan Torop, and Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige.

• Colors / Pistachio
  Spencer Finch
  What Nabakov saw when he heard the letter T
• Inventory / The Bible: 2,728 Objects in Order of Appearance
  Emma Kay
  In the beginning was the word “seed”
• Ingestion / Disembodied Cuisine
  Oron Catts & Ionat Zurr
  Toward victimless meat
• Leftovers / Not in Our Backyard: An Interview with Jim Puckett
  Sasha Archibald and Jim Puckett
  Your old computer is killing people

• Crocheting the Hyperbolic Plane: An Interview with David Henderson and Daina Taimina
  Margaret Wertheim, David Henderson and Daina Taimina
  Into non-Euclidean space, with hook and yarn
• Build Your Own Hyperbolic Soccer Ball Model
  Keith Henderson
  
• Artist Project / My Neck Is Thinner Than a Hair—A History of the Car Bomb in the 1975–1991 Lebanese Wars
  Atlas Group/Walid Raad
  
• The Building Is Our Last Line of Defense: An Interview with Eve Hinman
  Sina Najafi, Eyal Weizman and Eve Hinman
  The architecture of security
• Artist Project / The Story of a Pyromaniac Photographer
  Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige
  
• Jigsaws: A User's Manual
  Christopher Turner
  Assembling a history of the puzzle
• Cabinetlandia: Update No. 2
  Matthew Passmore
  Building the Cabinet National Library
• Artist Project / New World Order
  2x4
  
• The End of the Line
  Mats Bigert
  To queue or not to queue
• Artist Project / Waiting Rooms
  Lars Tunbjörk
  

• Dead Seas
  Mark Dery
  The psychogeography of Southern California
• The Sunset Coast
  Michael Bracewell
  The past within the present at the English seaside
• Artist Project / A Life Full of Holes
  Yto Barrada
  
• Fluid States
  Margaret Cohen
  The maritime in modernity
• On One Lost Hair
  Gregory Whitehead
  The final voyage of Horatio Nelson
• Artist Project / Shipbreaking
  Edward Burtynsky
  
• The Generation of the Jolly Roger
  Stephen O'Neill
  Death, violence, limited time
• Sea Monsters
  Jeffrey Kastner
  The science of rogue waves
• Utopia Beneath the Waves: An Interview with Matthew Stewart
  Jennifer Liese and Matthew Stewart
  Narcis Monturiol's submarine dream
• Artist Project / Ocean Photographs
  Dan Torop
  
• The Confetti of Empire
  Keller Easterling
  Nauru's riches to rags story

• Postcard 1 / St. Georges Hotel
  Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige
  
• Postcard 2 / Colossal Octopus
  Denys de Montfort
  
• Bookmark / Anchors