The 20th issue of Cabinet features a themed section on "Ruins" edited by Cabinet's UK editor Brian Dillon.

Comes with a poster by Ernst Falzeder tracing who analyzed who (and had sexual relations on the side) in the early days of psychoanalysis. Also includes Brian Dillon’s tour through the intellectual landscape of the ruin; Nina Dubin on Hubert Robert’s urban disasters and the rise of the futures market; Walead Beshty & Eric Schwab’s search for the remains of the Thousand-Year Reich; Colin Jones’s excavation of Théodore Vacquer, Baron Haussmann’s doppelganger; Martin Herbert in the icy desolation of Norilsk; and art projects by Susan Silton, Jeremy Millar, and Ester Partegas. The unthemed sections feature Celeste Olalquiaga on the 18th-century cabinet of Baron de la Mosson; Paul Laity on sandal-wearing “cranks” in 19th-century England; Margaret Wertheim in conversation with knot theoretician Ken Millett; Allen S. Weiss on the gastronomical obsessions of Antonin Artaud; Steve Featherstone on the blunt drama of the .50-caliber machine gun; Joshua Foer’s interview with arborsculptor Richard Reames, and more.