books by Cabinet     books:       Cabinet 19: Chance Cabinet, 2006 From actuarial tables to quantum physics to the Homeland Security threat level indicator, uncertainty remains a ubiquitous element of modern life, despite centuries of concerted effort by science and technology to mitigate its effects. Influencing both biological and social patterns of behavior, chance and its kin--randomness, probability, uncertainty, luck--also have a rich history in the world of art and literature, from the fortuitous ...             Cabinet 17: Laughter Cabinet, 2005 An uninhibited guffaw or a nervous giggle, a derisive snicker or the malign "bwahahaa" of the comic strip villain--each form suggests that laughter has many sources of inspiration. This issue of Cabinet addresses the cultural history of laughter through a sparkling mix of essays, interviews, and artist projects. Slavoj Zizek tells us what jokes can teach about Hegel; an interview with Simon Critchley shows philosophy's attempts to understand why ...             Cabinet 16: The Sea (A Quarterly of Art and Culture) Margaret Cohen, Mark Dery, ... Cabinet, 2005 The countless relationships, real and metaphorical, between humans and the sea reflect our dependency on, and anxiety over, its unfathomable power and vastness. The ocean is the primary medium for global trade, but the lair of lurking monsters; it is the site of swashbuckling adventure, but also of shuffleboard-and-bingo cruises; and, it is also the subject of Cabinet 16. The thematic section of this issue presents Yto Barrada's photographs of ...             The Book of Stamps Cabinet, 2008             Cabinet No. 20: Ruins (Cabinet: a Quarterly of Art and Culture) Cabinet, 2005 Cabinet No. 20 focuses on decay and desuetude; the history, aesthetics, and politics of the fragment, the remnant, and the rubble of once-proud edifices. At what historical remove from its prime does a ruin come to seem respectably picturesque? Are there ruins that are unrecoupable to an aesthetics of attractive decay or sublime rot? Cabinet No. 20 treats the "ruin" as an unruly rubric--not just pertaining to the ruins of buildings, ...             Cabinet 18: Fictional States Cabinet, 2005 From the perfectly organized island nation of Sir Thomas More's Utopia to the idealized mountain stronghold of Eldorado visited by the naive hero of Voltaire's Candide, the idea of the fictional state--utopian or dystopian, satirical or idealistic--has a long and distinguished pedigree in literature and philosophy. The issues explored by these classic imaginings--including questions of governmental organization, economic mechanisms, social ...             Cabinet 24: Shadows Victor Stoichita, Kris Lee, ... Cabinet, 2007 The inherently contingent physics of shadows--never things in themselves but instead always "cast" signs of other things; tangible yet insubstantial--has long been a rich source of inspiration for thinkers and artists. From the Biblical valley where humanity is stalked by the "shadow of death" to the purported supernatural phenomenon of the shadow people, the idea has always suggested forces of the unseen, of the Other, its relational quality ...             Cabinet 14: The Double Issue1 review Shelley Jackson, Alex Nagel, ... Cabinet, 2004 Infamous "Doppelganger" Issue with guest editor (and twin) John Strausbaugh The theme is "the Doppelganger" and the guest editor (a twin himself) is american cultural critic, John Strausbaugh. While Cabinet is always a fine publication, Strausbaugh's innovative contributions make this double issue a collectible (and great fun)! In this unique issue, Cabinet collaborates with Kabinet, a Russian art journal based in Saint Petersburg. American astronauts are compared to ...             Cabinet 13: Histories of the Future Cabinet, 2004 We have been living through boom times for the Future. Even during the relative calm before the escalating storms of 2001, our cultures and industries collaborated in a remarkable proliferation of words and images about this impossible entity, the Future. In recent years, the very thought "future" has been spectacularized in extraordinary ways. Produced in coordination with Duke University Press's forthcoming book of the same title, this volume ...             Cabinet 26: Magic Cabinet, 2007 "Secular magic," in the words of historian Simon During, is a category designed to differentiate the activity of the modern stage magician from the classical alchemist or occultist. Yet an appraisal of these non-supernatural forms of magical entertainment nevertheless provides the chance to trace the complex network of social and cultural forms to which secular magic owes a debt--from pioneering theatrical devices, novel approaches to ...             Cabinet 25: Insects (Cabinet) J.B.S. Haldane, George Pendle, ... Cabinet, 2007 The sheer numbers are staggering: scientists estimate that at any one time there are ten quintillion (10,000,000,000,000,000,000) individual insects alive on the earth, the group's more than 900,000 different known types accounting for some 80 percent of the world's total species. Yet despite the ubiquity of insects, our knowledge about their true character and extent is riddled with gaps--many experts believe that for every one insect species ...             Cabinet 15: The Average Issue Cabinet, 2004 Coined by the Belgian statistician Adolphe Quetelet in 1835, the term "average man" evokes both contentment and anxiety. In some sense an inverted history of the genius, the story of the average has had a formative influence on modern aesthetics, politics, and philosophy. For the artist, to be mediocre is a greater fault than to have failed spectacularly. For the politician, the battle for the heart of the average Joe determines both message and ...             Cabinet 22: Insecurity (Art and Culture) Cabinet, 2006 The idea that our time is obsessed with the modes and methods of security is by now a commonplace, yet behind this familiar syndrome lies a less-examined array of social and psychological phenomena--not just related to the nature of the threat faced (whether real or simply perceived) but also to the fundamental notions of stability and integrity these perils are understood to jeopardize. The Insecurity issue of Cabinet features Brian Dillon on ...             Shame (Cabinet) Cabinet, 2008             Cabinet 23: Fruits and Vegetables (Cabinet) Cabinet, 2006 From the Biblical fruit that brought about the moral downfall of mankind to "terminator" seed strains engineered to ensure that farmers have to buy new seed stocks every year, from banana republics to the annual tomato-throwing festivals in Spain, the story of fruits and vegetables opens an idiosyncratic window on human development and interaction. Cabinet 23 includes Steve Featherstone on a doomsday global seed repository on a remote Arctic ...             Cabinet 29: Sloth (Cabinet) Brian Dillon, Dan Perjovschi Cabinet, 2008 One of the seven deadly sins, sloth has long been reviled in the Christian world. But as capitalism appropriated the Christian tradition of work and recast it as the ethical imperative of its own secular new world order, laziness was revaluated by philosophers, writers and artists as a means of resisting the prevalent social order and its gospel of profit-driven hard work. The ambiguous status of the "couch potato" today is a symptom of the ...             Cabinet 28: Bones (Cabinet) Robert Harbison, Svetlana Boym, ... Cabinet, 2008 From the precincts of the vanitas to the black banner of the Jolly Roger to children's Day of the Dead sweets, the human skeleton is suffused with surprisingly diverse and nuanced cultural significances. Subject of science both legitimate and spurious, material of archeological scholarship and political controversy, bones suggest the permanence of certain inviolable aspects of personal and social identity, even as they bluntly signify the ...             Cabinet 12: The Enemy Cabinet, 2004 Description: The Enemy may be another country, another person, a virus, or a social phenomenon. On the theme of The Enemy: an interview with Harvard science historian Peter Galison on cybernetics pioneer Norbert Weiner and his WWII-era research into anti-aircraft weaponry, which led directly to his theories of cybernetics; an interview with Wolfgang Schivelbusch, author of The Culture of Defeat, on the effects of crushing military loss on the ...              search for books art, average, bones, book, cabinet, chance, culture, double, enemy, fictional, fruits, future, histories, insects, insecurity, issue, laughter, magic, quarterly, ruins, sea, shadows, shame, sloth, stamps, states, vegetables books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen gourmet food: Beautiful Cookies Organic Party Favors-Clown Organic Cookies Cookies, 10 ... leave a comment home  impressum - about us