Cabinet magazine issue 55, with a special section on “Love,” available now
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With great affection, we present:
–Brooke Holmes on the attraction between inanimate objects such as stones
–Christopher Turner on the infamous 18th-century love doctor James Graham
–Latif Nasser on the history of failed attempts to quantify love
–D. Graham Burnett and Yael Geller on the sexual symbolism of a Renaissance Italian desco da parto, or “birth tray”
–An interview with philosopher Simon Critchley and psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster on their intellectual and lived notions of love before and after their recent separation
–Dominic Pettman on Nikola Tesla’s love affair with a pigeon
–James Trainor on amorous cartographies
–A short story by Sheila Heti, and more
The fall head over heels for:
–Jesse Coburn on the 1988 occupation of the Lenné Triangle, a small sliver of East German land on the western wide of the Berlin Wall
–Brian Dillon on the lonely photographic vigilance of his aunt Vera
–Will Wiles on the scientific and commercial quest for artificial daylight
–Corina Copp on the color Flesh
–Justin E. H. Smith on the education of deaf-blind children in the Soviet Union
–Joshua Baucher in conversation with Richard Taws on the Chappe optical telegraphy system
–An interview with Nathan Flesness on zoo inventories andtheir use in wildlife management –Wayne Koestenbaum‘s farewell “Legend” column
–And more, including the new installment of Kiosk, our quarterly notebook
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Cabinet is published by Immaterial Incorporated, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. Cabinet receives generous support from the Lambent Foundation, the Orphiflamme Foundation, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Danielson Foundation, and many individuals.
