The question of endings haunts human beings across all their endeavors, which is why the idea of ...

A composite portrait of a wandering dandy scholar whose life and art merged in the margins of the...

Sally O'Reilly's The Ambivalents--like its companion volume, Jeff Dolven's Take Care--is a respon...

Athletic contests are nearly as old as human society itself. They have grown and flourished acros...

Featuring an interview with Sina Najafi, an essay by Martin Herbert, an introduction by Matt Pric...

This description of Cabinet issue 61 was written on 1 September 2015. Which also happens to be 17...

With the possible exception of the eyes, no other part of the face is as burdened with legend, my...

The cultural, social and scientific management of death--how to postpone it, how to prepare for i...

The idea of the North in modernity--its associations with sparseness and scarcity, to hardships a...

One of only a handful of substances produced in nature expressly as food, milk is fundamental for...

Edited by Sina Najafi. Text by Valerie Smith, Steven Connor, Jeff Dolven, Margaret Wertheim.

The theorist Fredric Jameson once wrote that it has become easier for us to imagine the world end...

Looming large in both geological fact and sociocultural significance, mountains promise grandeur,...

In the nineteenth century, Marx rejected the notion of homo sapiens, offering instead homo faber ...

Pablo Vargas Lugo is one of Mexico's fastest-rising contemporary artists, with an extensive resum...

A zone of deprivation and emptiness but also a space for adventure and even divine revelation, th...

Just as the very first constructed containers emerged at a time when new techniques of food gathe...

The second volume in Cabinet's 24-Hour Book series, New York-based artist David Scher's Hail, Cre...

The seventh publication in Cabinet's 24-Hour Book series, in which distinguished authors and arti...

With a special section on 'Skin,' this volume includes an interview with Richard Dyer on the hist...

Across history, the morality of taking what belongs to another has been of concern to both theolo...

This edition, with a special section on 'Dreams' and coedited by Matthew Spellberg, includes Spel...