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Marcel Krueger @marcelkrueger.bsky.social · 13h

"Amid this transformation, the walls of Berlin, a city often compared to Babylon, go on talking like the work of so many disembodied hands, delivering messages whose ultimate import we cannot fully comprehend, even as political authorities would prefer us not to see them."

Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · 2d

In our latest article, Alex Cocotas reflects on Berlin, the effacement of Gaza graffiti, and the writing on the wall. “The dream of the West is to grieve tomorrow for what we could have prevented today.”

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In Gaza Dies Your Western Dream | Alex Cocotas

Berlin, Palestine, and the writing on the wall

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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · 2d

In our latest article, Alex Cocotas reflects on Berlin, the effacement of Gaza graffiti, and the writing on the wall. “The dream of the West is to grieve tomorrow for what we could have prevented today.”

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In Gaza Dies Your Western Dream | Alex Cocotas

Berlin, Palestine, and the writing on the wall

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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · 27d

Heman Chong’s artist project on the back entrances of embassies, with an introductory essay by Adam Jasper, is now online!

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Artist Project / Embassies and Consulates | Heman Chong

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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · Sep 4

“When I was a little boy, I liked to pick my nose. In fact, I’ve enjoyed picking my nose for most of my life. This is not something to be proud of, but telling you about my nosepicking brings me to the word bice.”

Jonathan Ames on bice from issue 1:

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Scientific illustration of byssus-like carbonate of copper.

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Paul Prudence @mrprudence.bsky.social · Aug 6

'In 1953, while working a hotel switchboard, a college graduate named Shea Zellweger began a journey of wonder and obsession that would eventually lead to the invention of a radically new notation for logic' @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social

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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · Jul 10

For our latest Inventory column, Jim Moske explores a beguiling collection of images from the NASA archives: photographs of flameholders, taken mainly in the 1940s and 1950s, which seem like cousins once removed of Dada experimentation.

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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · Jun 19

Amanda Feilding wasn’t only a leading propagandist for drilling a hole in one’s head but also an early advocate for therapeutic psychedelics and drug policy reform. She died last month, aged 82. Read Christopher Turner’s article on Feilding from issue 28.

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Like a Hole in the Head | Christopher Turner

The trepanation-state

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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · Jun 12

NEW ARTICLE: James G. Harper and Philip W. Scher discuss German anthropologist Julius Lips’s groundbreaking treatise on African, Indigenous Australian, and Oceanic depictions of foreigners, “The Savage Hits Back, or, The White Man through Native Eyes.”

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Looking Back at the White Man | James G. Harper and Philip W. Scher

The story of Julius Lips

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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · Jun 5

In Berlin? Or within one week’s hiking distance? Come visit Cabinet at the Miss Read art book fair next week hosted by Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW). We will be selling books, magazines, and posters, and would love to meet our readers!

Miss Read: The Berlin Art Book Fair & Festival. June 13–15, 2025.

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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · May 12

"complicity, wrapped in the cloth of remembrance"... Chilling. Makes one think of what Sarah El Bulbeisi has written on the German taboo on Palestinian trauma in a critique, that is urgently relevant to analyses of current German foreign policy and memory politics cabinetmagazine.org/kiosk/el_bul...

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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · May 22

Read the statement by Sara Nadal-Melsió—associate director of the Whitney Independent Study Program—regarding the Whitney’s cancellation of “No Aesthetics Outside My Freedom: Mourning, Militancy, and Performance.”

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Statement by ISP Associate Director Regarding the Whitney’s Cancellation of “No Aesthetics Outside My Freedom: Mourning, Militancy, and Performance” and the ISP Cohort’s Response | Cabinet

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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · May 16

To read a full transcript of the trial and an introduction by Thomas Keenan and Eyal Weizman, visit:

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The Barber Trial: Sivan vs. Finkielkraut | Thomas Keenan and Eyal Weizman

An analysis of the libel case

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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · May 16

In “Shoah,” a Jewish barber cuts hair while recounting the atrocities he witnessed during the Holocaust. In “Route 181,” a Palestinian barber cuts hair while describing a massacre of Palestinians during the Nakba. A trial in Paris turned on how to read these two parallel scenes.

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Fiona McLees @mclees-fiona.bsky.social · May 14

As it’s his birthday, please enjoy David Byrne digging into surprising histories of the colour pink in this article for @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social
“Needless to say, suggesting that prison cells be painted pink was not an immediately popular idea…” www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/11/by...

Colors / Pink | David Byrne

Not so sweet after all

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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · May 1

“What sort of a life is it if we are to rest in shifts and not together as a whole proletariat? It is no holiday if you have to have it alone.” On this May Day, why not read Tony Wood’s “Labor Days: Reinventing the Workweek in the Soviet Union” from issue 61?
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Labor Days | Tony Wood

Reinventing the workweek in the Soviet Union

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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · Apr 11

We published a new artist project today: “Anchor and Archive: The Uprooting of Palestinian Olive Trees,” a series of photographs taken by @adambroomberg.bsky.social and Rafael Gonzalez in the West Bank, with an introduction by Irus Braverman.

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Animals peaking out behind an olive tree

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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · Mar 21

You can read the article, unlocked for a limited time, here: www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/69/mc...

Academic Discipline | Reed McConnell

A History of Prisons and Privilege at German Universities

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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · Mar 21

NEW ARTICLE: Reed McConnell’s “Academic Discipline,” which investigates the tradition of Karzer, German university prisons where students (such as Karl Marx) were sent for a range of offenses: dueling, making a nocturnal racket, and leading vagabond-like lifestyles. @reedreedreed.bsky.social

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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · Mar 21

Two of Cabinet’s editors recently had the opportunity to chat about the past and future of the magazine with book critic Alexander Wells (@ajbwells.bsky.social). Read the full interview in this month’s issue of The Berliner.

Screenshot of a magazine column whose header reads: “Curious and Curiouser. Cabinet magazine has landed in Berlin after 25 years”.

Screenshot of a quote from a magazine that reads: “As a graduate student, I read an interview with Michel Foucault where he talks about curiosity as a political tool, curiosity as something that disregards all the lines that police the world and make it come into being the way it is. Curiosity would be the thing that, if unbound, would completely disregard those lines and make you understand that the world was made to come into being this way—so it can also be unmade. The world doesn’t have to be this way. So curiosity, to us, is not just dabbling or dilettantism, but an ethical practice that can undo our certainties about the world.”

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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · Feb 13

We are saddened to learn that artist Rutherford Chang has passed away. In 2004, Rutherford proposed a spectacular poster for our “Average” issue: The New York Times’s front page with every section’s words cut out (by hand!) and reordered alphabetically.

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Artist Project / Poster Insert: Alphabetized Newspaper | Rutherford Chang

Edition late

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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · Feb 7

Reflecting on the origins of “totalitarianism”—a system that preserves the form of competitive democracy while, in reality, gutting it—after voting in the New York elections and after reading Samuel Clowes Huneke’s essay in @bostonreview.bsky.social.

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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · Feb 6

Copenhagen readers! On 17 February, Ark Books is holding a philosophy reading group discussion based on @hunterdukes.bsky.social recent essay “Kojève & Cigarettes: Fact-checking American Geist.”

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Advertisement with hand holding a lit cigarette

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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · Jan 31

Photographs of works by Larry Moss and Ralph Dewey, two American contemporary balloon practitioners—the latter a pioneer of evangelical “gospel ballooning.”

Jonathan Allen’s article “Pop Art: Inflationary Aesthetics” is now unlocked.

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Larry Moss’s balloon version of Botticelli’s Birth of Venus.

Ralph Dewey’s balloon version of Leonardo’s Last Supper.

Ralph Dewey’s balloon depiction of Jesus walking on water.

Larry Moss’s balloon version of Whistler’s Mother.

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Colby Chamberlain @colbychamberlain.bsky.social · Jan 8

Wrote a short piece for this celebration of Matt Freedman, “One for the Ages,” on collaborating with him for the weird and wonderful “Iron Artist” competition at @momaps1.bsky.social in Summer 2006. The book is available through @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social

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Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social · Jan 3

For Bauhaus master and album cover designer Josef Albers, “remaking the world by attending to all its seemingly inconsequential detail was an ethical proposition, a way of avoiding the casual, unthinking replication of bad design,” writes Eva Díaz.

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