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We can only return materials if a self-addressed, stamped envelope is provided. Contents © 2002 Immaterial Incorporated & the authors, artists, translators. Contributors Kevin C. Pyle is the author/ illustrator of Lab U.S.A.: illuminated documents, a “docucomic” published by Autonomedia. David B. Allison is co-author of Disordered Mother or Disordered Diagnosis? Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome (1998). His most recent work is Reading the Frances Richard is a poet living in New York. She is the non-fiction editor of New Nietzsche (2001). Fence magazine and an editor at Cabinet. Reed Anderson is an artist living and working in Brooklyn. He is represented by John Roberts is the author of The Art of Interruption: Realism, Photography and Clementine Gallery, New York. the Everyday (St. Martin’s Press, 1998) and a regular contributor to Cabinet. His most recent book (co-authored with Dave Beech) is The Philistine Controversy Sasha Archibald is a graduate student at New York University and lives in Brook- (Verso 2002). lyn. She is a research assistant at Cabinet. Mark S. Roberts is an editor, translator and writer who has published numerous Amanda Bailey writes about street life, fashion, and sexuality in the early books, articles and reviews in the fields of aesthetics, media theory, contempo- modern period. She is currently completing a book on late16th-century rary European philosophy, psychoanalysis, and literary theory, among others. subcultures of style entitled Flaunting It! A Cultural History of Style in the His most recent projects include High Culture: Reflections on Addiction and English Renaissance. Modernity (2003), a work in progress on social repression and animality, and a novel, American Hero: The Chuck Stuart Saga, V. 1. Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) was a German philosopher. His essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” is one of the most widely read Ruth Root is an artist based in New York City. essays in undergraduate critical theory classes. Barry Sanders is Professor of the History of Ideas at Pitzer College in Claremont, William Bodziak is a former agent with the FBI and the author of Footwear CA. His new book, Alienable Rights, co-authored with Francis Adams, will be Impression Evidence: Detection, Recovery, and Examination (CRC Press, 2nd published next year by HarperCollins. edition). David Serlin is an editor and columnist for Cabinet. He is the co-editor of Artifi- Paul Collins edits the Collins Library for McSweeney’s Books and is the author cial Parts, Practical Lives: Modern Histories of Prosthetics (NYU Press, 2002). of Banvard’s Folly and the forthcoming Sixpence House. He lives in Portland, Oregon. Shahzia Sikander is a New York-based painter whose work experiments with the genre of Indo-Persian miniature painting. Markman Ellis lives in London, where he is writing a cultural history of the coffee-house. David Levi Strauss is the author of Between Dog and Wolf: Essays on Art and Politics (New York: Autonomedia, 1999) and the forthcoming Between the Hans Fallada (1883–1947) was a leading proponent of Weimar Germany’s Eyes: Essays on the Photographic Image (New York: Aperture, 2003). literary Neue Sachlichkeit. Among his books are Bauern, Bonzen und Bomben [Farmers, Functionaries, and Fireworks] (1931) and Kleiner Mann, Was Nun? Ronald Tavel is one of the major contributors to Andy Warhol’s films, a play- [Little Man, What Now?] (1934). wright, and a novelist. His collection of Warhol film scripts will be published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2003. Vadim Fishkin is a Russian artist based in Ljubljana. Randolph Trumbach is a professor of British History at CUNY Baruch. He Joseph Fratesi is a designer and founder of Atlas Industries in Brooklyn. has published widely on the history of sexuality and queer subcultures in 18th- century London. Frederick Gross is an art historian living in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. He is writing a dissertation in the Department of Art History at the CUNY Graduate Center. Tom Vanderbilt lives in Brooklyn and is the author of Survival City: Adventures Among the Ruins of Atomic America, published recently by Princeton David Healy is director of the Department of Psychological Medicine at the Architectural Press. University of North Wales, and a visiting professor at the University of Toronto. He is the author of The Antidepressant Era (1997) and The Creation of Allen S. Weiss has been working hard on ingestion: He recently co-edited Psychopharmacology (2002). French Food (Routledge), and his Feast and Folly is forthcoming (SUNY). Andrew Hultkrans is editor-in-chief of Bookforum. Jocko Weyland is an artist and a writer based in New York. His book The Answer Is Never: A Skateboarder’s History of the World is forthcoming from Grove Nicholas Kahn & Richard Selesnick have been collaborating on a variety of proj- Press in September 2002. ects since 1988. Their book, scotlandfuturebog, is due out this September from Aperture Press. Peter Lamborn Wilson is the author of many books, including “Shower of Stars” Dream & Book: The Initiatic Dream in Sufism and Taoism (New York: Autono- Dorothy Krasowska is a freelance writer based in New York City. She has just media, 1996), Escape from the Nineteenth Century (New York: Autonomedia, completed her master’s thesis at Columbia University on the subject of 1998), and Ploughing the Clouds: The Search for Irish Soma (San Francisco: masculinity and the cowboy as presented in Andy Warhol and Ronald Tavel’s City Lights, 1999). Horse (1965). Jay Worthington is a lawyer in New York City. He is also one of the founders of Little is known about the life of Aelius Lampridius, who is credited as the author Clubbed Thumb, an independent theater company in New York, and editor-at- of biographies of several Roman emperors, including Elagabalus. large at Cabinet. Jesse Lerner is a documentary filmmaker and editor-at-large of Cabinet. Tirdad Zolghadr is documentary filmmaker and writer based in Tehran.