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Lift the lid on:
–Michael Marder on the philosophical and environmental significance of supermarket double bagging
–Nina Delgado on CARE packages and American postwar relief policy
–Richard Fleming on repurposed shipping containers used as barber shops in Haiti
–Georg Simmel on the handle’s position between the vessel and the world
–Sina Najafi in conversation with scholar Gerhard Wolf on the artifacts and theories of containment
–Juli Brandano on the historical connection of Brooklyn (and Cabinet) to the packaging industry
–Jeffrey Kastner in conversation with historian Deanna Day on the medical, consumer, and gender politics of the medicine cabinet
And don’t forget to unpack:
–Hanna Rose Shell on the history of the recycled textile waste material known as “shoddy”
–D. Graham Burnett on the early history of skywriting
–Daniel Rosenberg on libraries large and small
–Namwali Serpell on the color turquoise
–Matthew Spellberg on the Five Percenters and their relationship to the Nation of Islam
–Contributors Inc. on the gender ratio of the writers and artists who have appeared in Cabinet
–Chris Townsend on the philosopher George Berkeley’s time in America
–An artist project by photographer Tassos Vrettos on ad hoc spaces of devotion created by migrants and refugees in Athens, introduced by George Prochnik
–The debut of Brian Dillon’s regular column, “Sentences”
–And the new installment of Kiosk, our quarterly notebook
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