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For a reading of the iconography let alone the umbrageous editors of Cabinet. in this patch, see Trevor Paglen’s article in this issue. COLUMNS MAIN 7 InvEntory / SChool of roCkS 19 Bodies At Rest PiPer Marshall Tony Wood Selling Mrs. Stanford’s jewels Konstantin Melnikov’s Sonata of Sleep 10 Object Lesson / ObjEt de lux 23 Dead troops SAlutE Celeste Olalquiaga Louis KaPlan The passions of Madame Du Châtelet Arthur Mole’s living photographs 12 ColorS / ViolEt 27 MEngEr’S SPongIforM EncephAlopathy: Daniel HanDler An IntErview wIth JeannInE Mosely Your name is a color Margaret WertheiM Building a fractal house of cards 15 IngestIon / Fear of flesh allen S. Weiss 32 SAlt AnD Pepper The garden of earthy delights ImpliCasPhere Season to taste 35 MeasurE for MeasurE: An IntErview wIth AnnE ChAkA FranCes RiCharD A visit to the National Institute of Standards and Technology 38 SquArE WatErmelonS AnD Leg Art Jocko WeylanD Exploring the Associated Press Photo Library 44 Artist Project: MAkE Model MArk greg JOnes 48 Plotto’S PhArmacy lytle ShaW The wiseguys and the Farmer Con 52 artist Project: EyE DrAwIngS jochem henDricks 53 PAyIng AttEntIon JOnathan Beller The commodification of the sensorium 59 JesuS KillS steve FeatherstOne Do unto others, before they do unto you ShAdOwS ANd 61 ShADES OF BlACk PoStcarD: HanD ExErcise for trevOr Paglen shadowgraphy (ballErInA) Symbolic language and covert military programs FéliCien TreWey 65 A Short History of thE Shadow: bookmark: Clip, Stamp, folD (1977–1979) An IntErview wIth Victor I. StoichItA Beatriz COlomina et al. Christopher Turner From Plato’s cave to Duchamp’s widow 71 Artist Project: CabinEt ShadowS ByrOn KiM 73 Otto NeurAth’S unIvErsal SIlhouEttes geOrge PenDle The father of the Isotype 75 DArkness VisiblE Marina Warner The view from the shadows 81 Artist Project: StAgE Katrín SigurðarDóttir 89 Artist Project: CArtE de visitE glenn LigOn 90 MIrror, MIrror Julia Bryan-WilsOn