Erratum

Dear Readers of Cabinet,

I hope you will forgive this unorthodox method of communication, but being printers we of course have certain means available to us. We realize that this is highly irregular, but felt that recent events simply necessitated some straight talk between us regarding the state of affairs at Cabinet magazine.

As Cabinet's printers for the last four years, we have dutifully worked with our eccentric colleagues from Brooklyn—helping them with an astonishing variety of oddball requests, doing our best to accommodate their various crises and delays. In addition to this, however, we have also been performing a perhaps even more vital service to you, dear reader—one that Cabinet’s editors have never publicly acknowledged or, indeed, even fully come to terms with.

To put it bluntly, we edit the magazine after they do. We correct their typos, check for periods and commas, change hyphens to em-dashes, and make sure (it appears as though) they know the difference between “that” and “which.”

Over the years, we have come to accept our lot, happily making various little adjustments for our friends and simply going about our business. However, when we started work on the new issue of Cabinet a few weeks ago, it quickly became clear that something had gone horribly wrong. What had previously been a few little typos here and there had metastasized into an editorial quality-control breakdown of near-epic proportions—missing captions, switched bylines, the whole nine yards.

That is when we decided to take this admittedly dramatic step: to stop being enablers and instead, using our printerly prerogative, to perform what we believe may be the first ever “intervention” on a wayward publication.

So, as we’ve done with every issue since 2001, we have carefully proofed this issue of Cabinet. Unlike previous issues, however, we have not fixed the mistakes. Instead, we herewith present a list of errata from Issue 19,* “Fictional States,” with sincerest apologies to those authors and artists affected, and in the fervent desire that this brand of tough love may go some way toward snapping our friends at Cabinet out of whatever weird mojo seems to currently have them in its mistake-ridden grip.

Sincerely,
Dirk Libeer, co-director of Die Keure printers, Bruges

MAJOR ERRATA IN THIS ISSUE
1. The essays introducing the Empire of Atlantium and the Kingdom of Fusa (pages 91–92) were written by Robert Blackson, not Charles Green as stated.
2. Captions for Craig Kalpakjian’s “Moonworks” (pages 40–43) were inadvertently omitted.
CAPTIONS FOR PAGE 41
Top: Infinity in the Bay of Rainbows; Bottom left: Michael Heizer, Circular Surface Planar Displacement Drawing, 1970 (in construction).
Bottom right: Astronaut John W. Young in the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) during the third Apollo 16 Extravehicular Activity (EVA-3) at the Descartes landing site, 23 April, 1972.
CAPTIONS FOR PAGE 42
Top: Cross in the Sea of Nectar; Bottom left: Nazca lines, Peru.
Bottom middle: Michael Heizer, Circular Surface Planar Displacement Drawing, 1970
Bottom right: Dennis Oppenheim, Relocated Burial Ground, 1978, El Mirage Dry Lake, CA
CAPTIONS FOR PAGE 43
Top: Star in the Sea of Crises; Bottom left: Astronaut John W. Young, Apollo 16 commander, collecting samples at the North Ray Crater lunar site, 23 April 1972.
Bottom right: Michael Heizer looks at his work Nine Nevada Depressions: Isolated Mass/Circumflex 1, 1968.