Cabinet magazine issue 54, with a special section on “The Accident,” available now
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To our great surprise, the issue features:
–Greg Siegel on the timelines of collapse
–Alexander Nagel on the comedy of a young man’s fall
–Dorion Sagan on magic’s tricky relationship to chance and intent
–Aden Kumler on Aristotelian “accidents” and the enigmas of transubstantiation
–Justin E. H. Smith and Sina Najafi in conversation with Michael Witmore on the significance attributed to the “accidental event” since early modernity
–James Oles on ex-voto paintings and the imagery of deliverance
–Edward Eigen on the sudden disappearance of William W. Slack, architect
–Brian Dillon on the 1916 explosion of a major English munitions factory
Then unexpectedly run into contributions by:
–David Serlin on the aftermath of a devastating fire at London’s Madame Tussaud’s
–David Frankel on the botanical verisimilitude of Hooker’s green
–Tobias Armborst, Daniel D’Oca,and Georgeen Theodore on the homogenizing prohibitions that govern Common Interest Developments
–D. Graham Burnett on the history of Lucite deal toys
–Alexi Worth on the collision of the painterly and the photographic in Manet’s Déjeuner sur l’herbe
–Miguel Caballero on the avant-garde plan for protecting Madrid’s monuments during the Spanish Civil War
–Mark Dorrian on the homicidal omniscience of the military drone
–Wayne Koestenbaum‘s new “Legend” column
–An artist project by Steve Rowell
–And, the new installment of Kiosk, our quarterly notebook
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