Cabinet #43: Forensics

Columns

Leftovers / Arm
John Baldwin
The return of Uncle Bud
Colors / Umber
Yara Flores
Only the shadow knows
Ingestion / Alone on Floor with Pile of Buttons
Mary Cappello
Chevalier Jackson’s swallowed souvenirs
Legend / Cat on Edge
Wayne Koestenbaum
The culture of perpetual threshold

Main

Blow Up
Brian Dillon
Explosive adventures in the air’s uncharted ways
Artist Project / Roundabout Vancouver
Goodweather
Pale Sun of the Night
Bernd Brunner
By the light of the silvery moon
Artist Project / Zugunruhe
Rachel Berwick
Our Aesthetic Categories: An Interview with Sianne Ngai
Adam Jasper and Sianne Ngai
The cute, the interesting, and the zany
Artist Project / Untitled
Amie Siegel
The Hands That Made the Nation
Yoshikuni Igarashi
The builders of Japanese industry
The Great Cabinet Office Triathlon
Our winner Alice Tai and her splendid cat, Po

Forensics

Mengele’s Skull
Thomas Keenan and Eyal Weizman
From witness to object
Osteobiography: An Interview with Clyde Snow
Eyal Weizman and Clyde Snow
Forensic anthropology and the law
Forensic Machinery
Alain Pottage
Not so patently obvious
The Freedom of Speech Itself
Lawrence Abu Hamdan
A contemporary chronology of forensic listening
Tape 342
Susan Schuppli
That dangerous supplement
Dead Commodities
Godofredo Pereira
The trouble with Simón
The Similitude of the Wound
Greg Siegel
Framing the victim
Murky Evidence
Paulo Tavares
Environmental forensics in the age of the Anthropocene

And

Postcard / The Smith & Wesson Chest Plates
Bookmark / Absorption Spectra of Blood Samples