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Steal a few minutes to consider:
–Geoff Manaugh on the criminal uses of hidden infrastructural architecture
–D. Graham Burnett on theft, trust, betrayal, and contingency
–Margherita Peliti on accusations that Alexander Graham Bell purloined inventor Antonio Meucci’s working models for the telephone
–Jerry Toner on crime and punishment in ancient Rome
–Julian Lucas on the colonial plundering of Benin’s religio-cultural patrimony
–Cabinet’s conversation on labor and theft with workers on Mechanical Turk, Amazon’s distributed micro-tasking platform
And it would be criminal if you missed:
–Reinaldo Laddaga on the ill-fated alliance of Dadaists, futurists, Bolsheviks, and proto-fascists in the city of Fiume under Gabriele D’Annunzio
–Alice Butler on “Sparraw’s Kneecaps,” an enigmatic autobiographical manuscript by an unpublished author in 1970s London
–Justin E. H. Smith on “escargotic commotion” and the natural history of the Internet
–Aden Kumler on the secular and sacred histories of the waffle
–Dennis Jelonnek on the Polaroid, Raphael, and the “instant masterpiece”
–Erica Baum on the brilliant career of cadmium red
–Leland de la Durantaye, Adam Jasper, and Sally O’Reilly on the unidentifiable contraption that is “Thing No. 4”
–Allen S. Weiss on being served a meal that slyly invoked his intellectual biography
–Jon Calame on the fantasies sold by the names of American recreational vehicles
–An artist project by Nancy Davenport investigating the recent renovation of the United Nations complex
–A visit to Cabinet’s outpost in the Andalusian village of Jubrique
–And the new installment of Kiosk, our quarterly notebook
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