Cabinet magazine issue 42, with a special section on “Forgetting,” available now
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– D. Graham Burnett & Sal Randolph propose a field guide to shredding
– Barry Sanders remembers a forgotten gift from Derrida
– Joshua Foer studies a thankfully obsolete memorization technique, accompanied by illustrations by Amy Jean Porter
– George Prochnik recalls Italy’s most famous amnesiac
– Alistair Sponsel speaks with Londa Schiebinger on forgotten herbal abortifacients
– Peter Galison inspects Freud’s take on censorship, both wartime and psychic
– Jeffrey Kastner & Sina Najafi ask Paul Connerton about his seven categories of forgetting
– An artist project by Susan Hiller
– And a portfolio of “Monuments to Forgetting,” proposed by artists John Beech, Liz Glynn, Teresa Hubbard/Alexander Birchler, Eigil zu Tage-Ravn, and Olav Westphalen
And don’t draw a blank on these other memorable topics:
— Will Wiles on the mouse universes of John B. Calhoun
— Alexander R. Galloway on Nils Aall Barricelli’s mathematical organisms
— Ben Kafka & Jamieson Webster on the Deleuze family’s inscription to Foucault
— Aaron Kunin on our drab future
— Andrew McConnell Stott on the chronology of clown crime
— Elena Sorokina on mayonnaise’s cohesive role in the Soviet Union
— Christopher Turner on Wilhelm Reich’s orgone box
— Wayne Koestenbaum on waiting for the final war
— John Strausbaugh on Ada Clare, queen of the bohemians
— Jocko Weyland on disaster documentation
— Justin E. H. Smith on the ethics of rubbernecking
— Artist Projects by Amie Siegel and Julia Sherman
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