In the nineteenth century, Marx rejected the notion of homo sapiens, offering instead homo faber to ... more

When the current cycle of the Maya Long Count calendar concludes on 21 December 2012, the world will... more

Derived from the Latin forensis, the word forensics refers to the forum and designates the pract... more

Across fields as disparate as historiography, psychiatry and anthropology, remembering was long cons... more

topics, Cabinet 41 includes a special section on "Infrastructure," featuring Sina Najafi on the history of the intermodal...... more

Traub tracing the history of distance learning; Sina Najafi tracking the development of the A-F grading system; and an...... more

The seclusion of islands has long made them ideal screens for our fantasies and terrors, choice loca... more

A child s plaything and an object of study for scientists; a space of protection but also of isolati... more

The nature of friendship has been a subject of inquiry from the beginnings of the western philosophi... more

Dust is everywhere, a perennial presence in the corners of culture. Dust can be deathly (domestic du... more

Cabinet 34 puts our culture of constant examination, and self-examination itself, to the test, scrut... more

Man is purported to be the only animal that can lie by telling the truth. Whether we are dealing wit... more

One of the four classical elements, capable of both remarkable destructive and generative effect, th... more

Looming large in both geological fact and sociocultural significance, mountains promise grandeur, pi... more

From the Biblical fruit that brought about the moral downfall of mankind to "terminator" seed strain... more

The idea that our time is obsessed with the modes and methods of security is by now a commonplace, y... more

Pablo Vargas Lugo is one of Mexico s fastest-rising contemporary artists, with an extensive resume o... more

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The Enemy may be another country, another person, a virus, or a social phenomenon. On the theme of T... more

Drawing on (s)cul(p)tural paradigms as diverse as paper-doll books, Mad magazine fold-ins and explod... more