Columns
Eigil Zu Tage-Ravn
The ecstasy of the scroll eaters Paul La Farge
To see or not to see Christopher Turner
The mark of the swan Helen Denise Polson
Out of the mouths of babesMain
Christopher Turner
The kinetographic charms of Rudolf von Laban Margaret Wertheim, Bernd Krauskopf, and Hinke Osinga
Making sense of the Lorenz Manifold Georg Simmel
Little Grülp’s search for a home Geoffrey Batchen
Tracing the form of Barthes’sCamera Lucida Lev Bratishenko
Getting spanked by INTERCAL Zoe Beloff
Albert Grass and the Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society Aaron Schuster
The brief history of a famous literary doodle Steve Reinke
Surprise endings Lena Herzog
E. J. van der Mijle’s skeleton orchestra Cabinet
Cabinet crushed by USPS; saved by poetryDomestic Mail Manual, with Jeff Dolven
A bureaucraticaufhebungFriendship
Beth Blum
Hatred alone is immortal Jeffrey Kastner, Sina Najafi, and Angie Hobbs
The philosophies of friendship Mats Bigert
The phantom limbs of relationships past Matti Kallioinen
The tentacles of affection Svetlana Boym
Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, and anchovy paste Sina Najafi
A friend indeed? Albert Mobilio
The remains of that day Christine Wertheim
The shape of your face, the cut of your hair Sabrina Gschwandtner
The kite stuff Mark Dery
Friendship in the age of social networking D. Graham Burnett
The mytho-poetic birth of performance art Richard Fleming
Throat, razor, friend Shelley Jackson
An editorial operation Gabriel Coxhead
Hands across the seaAnd
Brooklyn reaches out to its sister city