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The daring views published in this magazine are not necessarily those of the writers, let alone the conformist editors of Cabinet. page 4: Pamela Jackson, The Futuremen, 1998. columns 7 coloRs / khakI ben marcus For the potential Hemingway in all of us 9 InvEnToRy / FallEn figures & hEads: lEon golub’s lIsTs david levi strauss The poetry of the archive 12 IngEstion / ThE shElF-life oF lIquefyIng objEcTs jamer hunt Monuments go limp 15 leftovers / whaT To do with a woRn-ouT koRan michael cook A question of disposition maIn 19 EdIson’s warrioRs christoph cox Deceive to defeat 23 triskElIon sasha archibald The migrations of a symbol 26 boRder sound filEs: ExcerpTs from an audIo Essay josh kun Into Tijuana, through the aural aleph 33 boRderlInE aRchEology jesse lerner Janus-faced geography 37 daTa and metadaTa: an Interview with murtha baca & erin cobuRn eve meltzer & julia meltzer You say Ugolino Lorenzetti, I say Bartolommeo Bulgarini 41 100,000 bottlEs oF beer In ThE wall paul collins Alfred Heineken’s recycling program 44 cuTanEous: an Interview with stevEn connoR brian dillon On, in, through, and beneath the skin 49 ThE figuRativE IncaRnation oF ThE sEntencE (notes on ThE “auTogRaphIc” skIn) georges didi-huberman Dermographia and the inscribed body 54 ThE hand up pRojEcT: attempting To meet ThE nEw needs oF naTuRal life-FoRms elizabeth demaray A new home for the hermit crab FuTuREs 59 ThInkIng FuTures daniel rosenberg & susan harding Conspiracy, prophecy, and utopia 62 very slow scan telEvIsIon gebhard sengmüller & jakob edlbacher Tune in, turn on, wait 66 dEsert modernIsm joseph masco From the Nevada Test Site to Liberace’s sequined suits 75 spEcIal cd Insert: pasT FoRwaRd curated by brian conley & christoph cox 78 artisT pRojEcT: naTuRalIa aziz + cucher 81 ThE usE oF dRugs To InFluEncE timE ExperiencE Heroin to “lose the present,” alcohol to make time “go faster” 82 ThE day before ThE day after Waiting for JFK: Austin, Texas, 22 November 1963 85 ThE troublE with timElInEs daniel rosenberg The measure of it all 86 a TImElInE oF TImElInEs sasha archibald & daniel rosenberg A device turned on itself 92 phasEs oF life 1: ThE artificIal Foster-moTher samantha vincenty The birth of the incubator 94 phasEs oF life 2: ThE FamIly Room oF Tomorrow joseph masco The domestic dreamspace, after the bomb 96 phasEs oF life 3: lIvIng aT dEaTh’s dooR nicholas sammond Not dead yet 98 hummIngbird FuTures daniel rosenberg Theodor Nelson and the creation of hypertext 107 ThE veterans oF FuTure waRs susan hamson Patriotism, prepaid 108 ThE sExual aRchIpElago jessica sewell Simon Spies’s hydraulic pleasure palace 111 ThE eighT-Fold paTh To knowIng Ra greg rowland Space