Cabinet magazine issue 51, with a special section on “Wheels,” available now
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Get in gear with:
–Christopher Turner in conversation with Simon Schaffer on the absolutist promise of perpetual motion
–Suzanne Karr Schmidt on volvelles, the paper wheels used in early modern computation
–D. Graham Burnett on hubcap “spinners” and the automotive unleashing of blur
–Jeff Dolven in conversation with John V. Fleming on wheels of fortune
–Plus: the pneumatic birth of the Michelin Man; the story of how the Indian flag traded its spinning wheel for a chakra; the wheeled figurines of the supposedly wheel-less societies of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica; and the sixteenth-century bookwheel of Agostino Ramelli.
And then take a spin through:
–Sasha Archibald on Max Factor and the invention of modern cosmetics
–The first English translation of Andrei Platonov‘s “Anti-Sexus,” introduced by Aaron Schuster
–Susan Zieger on the cigarette card as a technology of knowledge
–Merry White on coffee culture in Japan
–Wayne Koestenbaum‘s new “Legend” column
–Robert Antoni on the unhappy fate of John Adophus Etzler’s tropical utopia
–Carol Mavor on aquamarine
–An anonymous text from the Occupy Wall Street movement
–Plus: artist projects by Edmund Clark, Jill Magid, Luis Molina-Pantin, and Karen Yama
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