COLUMNS


INVENTORY/FROM ACNE TO X-RAY
BRIAN DILLON
Diagnosing Warhol

A MINOR HISTORY OF/USEFUL CORPSES
JOSHUA FOER
Not all bodies molder in the grave

INGESTION/THE BEAST WITHIN
NATALIE DE SOUZA
The tale of the tapeworm

COLORS/MAGENTA
SALLY O’REILLY
At the leaky margins of reality

MAIN

IN PURSUIT OF SALAMONE
JAMES OLES
In the emptiness of the Argentine Pampas, a vision of
modernity

GALLERY OF SHOOTERS
JOSHUA DUBLER & ANDREA SUN-MEE JONES
The assassin, the non-assassin, and the shape of history

THE ONOMASTIC GOLD MINE
ALLEN S. WEISS
What's in a name?

ARTIST PROJECT/FRONT
TRISH MORRISSEY

ROLL PLAYING
JEFF DOLVEN
Feeling the machine music of Conlon Nancarrow

HUNTING A MATHEMATICAL SNARK
MARGARET WERTHEIM
The sublime symmetry of the Monster

CABINET HOAXED?
Magazine deceived in its own "Deception' issue?

TESTING

GAMES OF CHANCE
D. GRAHAM BURNETT
Testing at the limits of the normal

A TEST OF PATIENCE
MATS BIGERT
Waiting on the world's longest-running laboratory
experiment

CORTEX ENVY
MARK DERY
Bringing up Baby Einstein

DRAWING OUT YOUR MIND
SINA NAJAFI & CHRISTOPHER TURNER
A sampler of projective psychological tests

MEASURING DESIRE
TOM WAIDZUNAS
The science of phallomteric testing

THEY RODE THE ROCKETS
COLIN BURGESS
Animals in space

A LITTLE ETYMOLOGICAL TEST
JOSHUA T. KATZ
Keep your eye on the balls

TO CATCH A BUG
MICHAEL D. GORDIN
How to test for nuclear tests

A CHILD COULD DO IT
TOM HOLERT
The art of aesthetic ability testing

EPISTEMOLOGICAL CHICKEN
JOHN DOWNER
What do we learn from "bird-ingestion" tests?

PENCILS UP!
Cabinet puts its subscribers to the test

AND

POSTCARD / THE BISCUIT-PACKERS' TEST
That's the way the cookie doesn't crumble

BOOKMARK / POST OFFICE FLEXIBILITY TEST
Cabinet's rigid standards