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Cabineta Quarterly of Art and Culture Issue 23 Fruits Us $10 Canada $15 A QUARTERLY OF ART AND CULTURE ISSUE 23 FRUITS CABINET US $10 CANADA $15 UK £7 inside this issue tutti Frutti season Fall 2006 Fran Beauman • Mats Bigert • Ellen Birrell • Irene Cheng • Robert Connelly • Brian Dillon • Fallen Fruit • Joshua Glenn • Adam Leith Gollner • Mister Justice Horace Gray • Sabrina Gschwandtner • Jeffrey Kastner • Chris Kubick • Kavior Moon • Sina Najafi • Celeste Olalquiaga • Frances Richard • Barry Sanders • Andrew F. Smith • Christopher Turner • Larry Tye • Anne Walsh • McKenzie Wark • Margaret Wertheim • Anna Von Mertens cabinet Cabinet is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) magazine published by Immaterial Incorporated. 55 Washington St, # 327 Our survival is dependent on support from foundations and generous individuals, Brooklyn NY 11201 USA such as you (flattery is apparently a very good tactic for this sort of thing). 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The views published here are not necessarily those of the writers and artists, and food writer Richard Sterling. Novelist Anthony Burgess wrote that dining on let alone the intellectually overripe editors of Cabinet. durian is like eating vanilla custard in a latrine. COLUMNS MAIN 7 OBject Lesson / ABject OBject 21 ViruS CAmP Celeste Olalquiaga brian DillOn Out and down in Paris The story of the Common Cold Unit 11 ColorS / Scarlet 27 LEttEr BOmbs JOshua Glenn ChristOpher Turner Our drug of sex and death Gerhard Zucker’s rocket post 13 Ingestion / TalkIng turkEy 33 Artist PrOject: AS thE StArS Go By Jeffrey Kastner anna VOn Mertens Andrew F. Smith on the reluctant star of Thanksgiving 38 A Brief HistOry of StrIng 18 InvEntOry / F is for Foley sabrina GsChWanDtner anne Walsh & Chris Kubick From the eruv to the quipu The indexical majesty of the sound effects catalogue 43 Why thIngS DOn’t Fall Down: An IntErview with Robert COnnelly Margaret WertheiM The forms and functions of tensegrity 49 ThE BeavErS AnD thE Bees irene Cheng Intelligent design and the marvelous architecture of animals 55 To thE VectOr thE Spoils MCKenzie WarK Gaming, outside The Cave™ 60 Feet of GenIuS ChristOpher Turner Einstein’s cobbler complex fruitS AND 63 WAtCh Out for thE Top BAnAnA postcarD larry Tye franCis DarWin Edward Bernays and the colonial adventures of the United Fruit Company bookmArk JessiCa Green 69 Fallen FruIt To prepare you for when Cabinet goes weekly Matias Viegener Help yourself 73 ThOreau’S Wild Fruits franCes RiCharD A philosopher among the huckleberries 77 StrAngE FruIt ellen Birrell The citrus bud mite as sculptor 82 It’S A FruIt, Goddamn It! barry SanDers The old man and the tomato 88 It’S A VegEtable, Goddamn It! Mr. JustiCe Gray The 1893 US Supreme Court weighs in on the Great Tomato Controversy 90 OrAngE CRUSh KaViOr Moon Three festivals 94 ThE King of FruItS fran BeauMan The pineapple and the aristocrat 99 Sweet Tart: An IntErview with Adam Leith GollnEr sina NaJafi Conquering sourness with the miracle fruit 103 FruIt of thE WhInE Mats Bigert Sweden’s pacifier trees COntributOrs Fran Beauman graduated with a degree in History from Cambridge University culinary history. His latest work, The Turkey: An American Story, is scheduled and now writes and hosts for television. Her first book, The Pineapple: King for release from University of Illinois Press in October 2006. He can be reached of Fruits, was published by Chatto & Windus in 2005. She divides her time through <www.andrewfsmith.com>. between London and Los Angeles. Christopher Turner is an editor of Cabinet and is currently writing a book, Adven- Mats Bigert is editor-at-large of Cabinet and one half of the Swedish artist duo tures in the Orgasmatron: How the Sexual Revolution Came to America, to be Bigert & Bergström. They are currently participating in the 1st Singapore Bien- published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. nial and in an exhibition called Crime and Punishment at the Tallinn Kunsthalle, Estonia. Bigert & Bergström are also in the preliminary stages of a film project Larry Tye was a longtime journalist for the Boston Globe and a former Nieman titled Life Extended that documents the utopian quest for immortality. The film Fellow at Harvard University. He is the author of The Father of Spin: Edward L.
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