Table of Contents

The eighteenth issue of Cabinet features a themed section on "Fictional States." Includes George Pendle on upstart countries, Tony Wood on made-up maps, and a portfolio of self-declared nations. Also carries a new column, Black Pyramid, by Peter Lamborn Wilson, Christine Wertheim on Shea Zellweger's Logic Alphabet, Jonathan Ward on corporate musicals, as well as artist projects by Sasha Chavchavadze, Craig Kalpakjian, Lynne Roberts-Goodwin, Patrick Pound, Invertebrate, and Glexis Novoa. Free erratum included!

• Ingestion / Pontormo's Diary
  Ellizabeth Pilliod
  Food and the management of the artist’s melancholy
• Inventory / How to Join the Men's Auxillary
  Sasha Archibald
  Valerie Solanas and the enemies and allies of SCUM
• Colors / Ivory
  Frances Stark
  Mouth-watering silence
• Black Pyramid / Manifesto
  Peter Lamborn Wilson
  Hallucinogenic snuff

• Crystal Clear: An Interview with Shea Zellweger
  Christine Wertheim and Shea Zellweger
  Developing the Logic Alphabet
• Artist Project / The Match Game
  Sasha Chavchavadze
  
• Utopia on Vinyl
  Jonathan Ward
  The history of the industrial musical
• In Search of Ancient Astronauts: A Requiem for the Space Age
  Mark Dery
  Architectural techno-transcendentalism in Southern California
• Artist Project / Moonworks
  Craig Kalpakjian
  
• Artist Project / Bad Birds
  Lynne Roberts-Goodwin
  
• The Kingpin of Fakers
  Christopher Turner
  Colonel Dinshah P. Ghadiali and the Spectro-Chrome
• Artist Project / C.V.—A Work in Progress
  Patrick Pound
  
• A Matter of Degrees
  Allen Ezell and John Bear
  The FBI on the trail of the world's most lucrative diploma mill

• New Foundlands
  George Pendle
  How many countries are there in the world?
• Hating Your Country
  Cecilia Sjöholm
  Instead of pretending you don’t live there
• Artist Project / Borderville
  Invertebrate
  
• Confections of Zeno
  Tony Wood
  The consequences of cartographic fantasy
• The Ephemera of Fictional States
  William Bryk
  The art of sovereignty
• Self-Declared Nations: A Portfolio
  
• Kymaerica
  
• Hutt River Province Principality
  
• The Empire of Atlantium
  Robert Blackson
  
• The Kindgom of Fusa
  Robert Blackson
  
• State in Time
  
• The Kingdom of Elgaland-Vargaland
  
• The New Free State of Caroline
  
• The Magic of the State: An Interview with Michael Taussig
  David Levi Strauss and Michael Taussig
  Hierarchy, stratification, and the power of spirit possession
• Artist Project / Landscape of Symbols
  Glexis Novoa
  
• Return to Sender
  Bonnie & Roger Riga
  "Cinderellas," the stepchildren of philately

• Postcard / A Slight Mismap
  Tal Schori
  
• Bookmark / Fictional Steaks
  Brian McMullen