Title & Author:

Curiosity and method : ten years of Cabinet Magazine.

Publication:

Description:

527 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Foreword by Sina Najafi; contributions by Jonathan Allen, Jonathan Ames, Sasha Archibald, and others.
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword -- How to use this book -- Encyclopedia -- Addiction / Albert Mobilio -- Animal architecture / Irene Cheng -- Animal rights / Sina Najafi with Kathleen Kete -- Apprehension / Sasha Archibald -- Balloon / Jonathan Allen -- Blackness / Tom Vanderbilt -- Boundary / Josh Kun -- Bureaucracy / Ben Kafka -- Camping / AUDC -- Cat / Adam Jasper -- Centralization / Kazys Varnelis -- Cipher / William H. Sherman -- Consciousness / Christoph Cox -- Contingency / William Safire -- Copyright / Jay Worthington & Luke Murphy -- Cryptogastronomy / Allen S. Weiss -- Dance / Christopher Turner -- Demolition / Jeff Byles -- Dentistry / Colin Jones -- Design / Geoff Cox -- Double / Paul Fleming -- Drawing / Jonathan Ames -- Dust / Brian Dillon -- Dye / Shelly Jackson -- Eucharist / Yara Flores -- Everyday life / Louise Harpman & Scott Specht -- Exoticism / Jesse Lerner -- Eye / Jonathan Lethem -- Fall / Gregory Whitehead -- Flower / Frances Richard -- Food / Romy Golan -- Forgery / Alexander Nagel -- Fox -- Fraud / Sam Burton -- Friendship / Jeffy Kastner & Sina Najafi with Angie Hobbs -- Geometry / Margaret Wertheim with David Henderson & Daina Taimina -- Gesture / Brian Dillon -- Globe / Joshua Foer -- Goalkeeping / Mariana Castillo Deball with Gianluigi Buffon -- Gravity / Mary Walling Blackburn -- Hedgehog -- Humor / Brian Dillon with Simon Critchley -- Identification / David Serlin with Valentin Groebner -- Incarceration / Tirdad Zolghadr -- Injustice / Christoph Cox & Molly Whalen with Alain Badiou -- International Date Line / Jon Calame -- Inventory / Emma Kay -- Joke / Cabinet & Rachel Gugelberger -- Kitchen / Thomas A.P. Van Leeuwen -- Knowledge / Cabinet -- Labor / Mariana van Zuylen -- Land art (photographed) / Jeffrey Kastner with John Cliett -- Land art (sketched) / Jenny Perlin ... (and 6 others) -- Language / Kevin McCann -- Last Supper / Anthony Grafton -- Levitation / Aaron Schuster -- Library / Matthew Passmore -- Lock / Jeffrey Kastner -- Loser / Sina Najafi & David Serlin with Scott A. Sandage -- Loss / D. Graham Burnett -- LSD / Sasha Archibald -- Marketing / Rubén Gallo -- Marxism / Wayne Koestenbaum -- Mechanization / Barry Sanders -- Micronation / George Pendle -- Monument / Matthew Buckingham -- Mote / Dorion Sagan -- Music / Amy Jean Porter --
Namesake / Leon Golub, Leon Golub & Leon Golub -- Napkin / Daniel Birnbaum -- Negation / Daniel Heller-Roazen -- Nostalgia / Luc Sante -- Notation / Edward Jessen -- Olfaction / Adam Jasper & Nadia Wagner -- Otolith / D. Graham Burnett -- Pareidolia / Marina Warner -- Path / Joe Milutis -- Pedagogy / Norman Brosterman -- Personality / Sina Najafi & Christopher Turner -- Plastic surgery / David Serlin -- Portraiture / David Levine -- Precociousness / Carol Mavor -- Printing / Lytle Shaw -- Property / Cabinet -- Public relations / Larry Tye -- Pykrete / Paul Collins -- Quack / Christopher Turner -- Quotation / Gregory Williams -- Representation / Joseph Grigely -- Ruination / Brian Dillon -- Sandal / Paul Laity -- Schizophrenia / Christopher Turner -- Sect / Magnus Bärtås -- Self-reflection / Josia McElheny -- Sentiment / Brian McMullen -- Soccer (proposed) / Cabinet -- Soccer (waiting) / Cabinet -- Souvenir / George Prochnik -- Spectroscopy / D. Graham Burnett -- Subjectivity / Helen Mirra -- Syncretism / Paul La Farge -- Synesthesia / Spencer Finch -- Taboo / Jay Worthington -- Tarot / Cabinet -- Tarot (quotidian) / Francine Prose -- Tarot (satanic) / Denis Johnson -- Taxidermy / Mats Bigert -- Time / Daniel Rosenberg -- Time (diagrammed) / Daniel Rosenberg -- Tourism / Colby Chamberlain -- Traffic / Sean Dockray, Steve Rowell & Fiona Whitton -- Umbrage / Christopher Turner with Victor I. Stoichita -- Underground / Sina Najafi with Rosalind William -- Uniformity / Geoffrey O'Brien -- Viscosity / Mats Bigert -- Void / Slavoj Z̆iz̆ek -- Warfare / Paul Maliszewski -- Weather / Mats Bigert -- Worlding / Leland de la Durantaye -- Xenoglossia / Daniel Rosenberg -- Youth (American) / Mark Dery -- Zoology / Cabinet -- Zoosemiotics / Sina Najafi with Hugh Raffles -- Additonal keywords -- Attention / Lorriane Daston -- Listening / Daniel Rosenberg -- Curiosity / Justin E. H. Smith -- Collecting / Barbara M. Benedict -- The ordinary / Jeff Dolven -- Pranks / Anthony Grafton -- Pleasure / Marina Warner -- Footnotes -- Illustration credits -- Cast of characters.

Summary:

"This anthology gathers some of the most interesting successes, and a few instructive failures, published in the first forty issues of Cabinet. Taking the form of an illustrated encyclopedia, the idiosyncratic entries include Addiction, Animal Architecture, Goalkeeping, Micronation, Otolith, Sandal, Worlding, and Zoosemiotics." -- Publisher's description. Foreword by Sina Najafi; contributions by Jonathan Allen, Jonathan Ames, Sasha Archibald, and others.

ISBN:

9781932698565 (hbk.)
1932698566 (hbk.)

Subject:

Cabinet (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
Arts, Modern 20th century Encyclopedias.
Arts, Modern 21st century Encyclopedias.
Encyclopedias and dictionaries.
Arts 20e siècle Encyclopédies.
Arts 21e siècle Encyclopédies.
Encyclopédies et dictionnaires.
Arts, Modern
Encyclopédies et dictionnaires anglais.

Form/genre:

Encyclopedias

Added entries:

Najafi, Sina. author of foreword.
Cabinet (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)

Ten years of Cabinet Magazine.
10 years of Cabinet Magazine.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 280537
Call No.: BIB 217356
Status: Available