Cabinet is a quarterly magazine of arts and culture that believes curiosity is the very basis of ethics. www.cabinetmagazine.orghttps://bsky.app/profile/cabinetmagazine.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/cabinetmagazine.bsky.social/post/3mjmgy7gktc25Imagine being named John Smith. Now imagine being the avant-garde filmmaker of that name, maker of “The Girl Chewing Gum” and other gems. Now imagine being asked to write on “Webster’s Timeline History: John Smith, 1580–2007.” https://cabinetmagazine.org/issues/70/smith.php16 Apr 2026 12:47 +0000at://did:plc:inkwlu2mdltnsfeqcyx4rtc6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjmgy7gktc25https://bsky.app/profile/cabinetmagazine.bsky.social/post/3mijezii2ls2eIn our latest issue, former New Zealand Poet Laureate David Eggleton visits the city of Bristol via antipodal Dunedin in a truly psycho geographical romp. “Let a medley of quotations serve to evoke this aura of sinister criminality clinging to … Bristol.” https://cabinetmagazine.org/issues/70/eggleton.php02 Apr 2026 14:09 +0000at://did:plc:inkwlu2mdltnsfeqcyx4rtc6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mijezii2ls2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/cabinetmagazine.bsky.social/post/3mij7j7jvfk2cWith bombs falling on Iran, Shahram Khosravi examines what it means for the defeated of the earth to face their serial losses with “an open face,” as counseled by his father. How can we understand defeat as critique’s ethical point of departure? https://cabinetmagazine.org/issues/71/khosravi.php02 Apr 2026 12:30 +0000at://did:plc:inkwlu2mdltnsfeqcyx4rtc6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mij7j7jvfk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/cabinetmagazine.bsky.social/post/3mftj7ucgr226Our discussion with Israeli human rights lawyer Michael Sfard about his attempts to force a state investigation into whether repeated statements on Israel’s Channel 14 amount to incitement to genocide, a crime in Israeli law. https://cabinetmagazine.org/issues/71/najafi_prochnik_sfard.php27 Feb 2026 10:35 +0000at://did:plc:inkwlu2mdltnsfeqcyx4rtc6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mftj7ucgr226https://bsky.app/profile/cabinetmagazine.bsky.social/post/3mfa2ifrfes2b👀 Issue 70 / Gray Literature 👀 featuring David Eggleton, Klara Kofen, Rosie Oliver, Sally O’Reilly, John Smith, Spencer Spencer, and more… https://cabinetmagazine.org/issues/70/index.php @sosallyo.bsky.social19 Feb 2026 16:51 +0000at://did:plc:inkwlu2mdltnsfeqcyx4rtc6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfa2ifrfes2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/cabinetmagazine.bsky.social/post/3mf5nnbejts2eOur discussion with Israeli human rights lawyer Michael Sfard about his attempts to force a state investigation into whether repeated statements on Israel’s Channel 14 amount to incitement to genocide, a crime in Israeli law. https://cabinetmagazine.org/issues/71/najafi_prochnik_sfard.php @michaelsfard.bsky.social18 Feb 2026 17:55 +0000at://did:plc:inkwlu2mdltnsfeqcyx4rtc6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf5nnbejts2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/cabinetmagazine.bsky.social/post/3me7aqh6z3k2fThe arc of desire is frail, and nowhere is this better glimpsed than in the “love lines” of the Yukaghir, which adorn our latest issue’s cover. All articles from issue 69 are now unlocked, just in the very nick of time for Valentine’s Day... cabinetmagazine.org/6906 Feb 2026 15:45 +0000at://did:plc:inkwlu2mdltnsfeqcyx4rtc6/app.bsky.feed.post/3me7aqh6z3k2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/cabinetmagazine.bsky.social/post/3mck6mlph222yCarlin Wing’s new book, “Bounce: Balls, Walls, and Bodies in Games and Play,” will be published next week by MIT Press: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553216/bounce/ In the meantime, you can read her essay from issue 56, “Episodes in the Life of Bounce,” here: https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/56/wing.php16 Jan 2026 13:16 +0000at://did:plc:inkwlu2mdltnsfeqcyx4rtc6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mck6mlph222yhttps://bsky.app/profile/cabinetmagazine.bsky.social/post/3mbrf55dsx22gNew article: Sanders Issac Bernstein (return2sanders.bsky.social) investigates the construction threats to Berlin’s Memorial to the Sinti and Roma of Europe Murdered under National Socialism and the long struggle by Sinti and Roma for public recognition of what was done to them by the German state.06 Jan 2026 16:36 +0000at://did:plc:inkwlu2mdltnsfeqcyx4rtc6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbrf55dsx22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/cabinetmagazine.bsky.social/post/3mbhc5o457c26Syros wasn’t the only pilgrimage spot that seemed, to the Western eye, to have withered on the vine of ancient vitality. When Melville’s ship reached Palestine, his heart sank: “No country will more quickly dissipate romantic expectations than Palestine.” https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/71/taylor.php02 Jan 2026 16:16 +0000at://did:plc:inkwlu2mdltnsfeqcyx4rtc6/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbhc5o457c26https://bsky.app/profile/cabinetmagazine.bsky.social/post/3m6mbqg7v222tEnjoyed Igor Bezinović’s new film about Gabriele D’Annunzio’s creation of the Italian Regency of Carnaro, founded in 1919 and dissolved in 1920? Check out Reinaldo Laddaga’s article on the Fiume adventure from issue 58: “A City for Poets and Pirates.” https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/58/laddaga.php27 Nov 2025 11:36 +0000at://did:plc:inkwlu2mdltnsfeqcyx4rtc6/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6mbqg7v222thttps://bsky.app/profile/cabinetmagazine.bsky.social/post/3m5lwb764qk2pIn light of Serbia’s not-at-all-corrupt deal with Jared Kushner to redevelop the site of the monumental former Army Headquarters in Belgrade, we return to Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss’s history of this extraordinary modernist building, bombed by NATO in 1999. https://cabinetmagazine.org/issues/1/jovanovicweiss.php14 Nov 2025 14:45 +0000at://did:plc:inkwlu2mdltnsfeqcyx4rtc6/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5lwb764qk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/cabinetmagazine.bsky.social/post/3m5lshgg4bs2v“Where Western eyes insist on finding Greece and only Greece, Syros insists on showing us the world.” McNeil Taylor on the Crown Iris protests on Syros and the overlapping fantasies, from within & out, that are called on to define “Greece.” https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/71/taylor.php14 Nov 2025 13:37 +0000at://did:plc:inkwlu2mdltnsfeqcyx4rtc6/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5lshgg4bs2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/cabinetmagazine.bsky.social/post/3m2kjgptiek2nIn our latest article, Alex Cocotas reflects on Berlin, the effacement of Gaza graffiti, and the writing on the wall. “The dream of the West is to grieve tomorrow for what we could have prevented today.” https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/kiosk/cocotas_alex_06_october_2025.php06 Oct 2025 21:08 +0000at://did:plc:inkwlu2mdltnsfeqcyx4rtc6/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2kjgptiek2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/cabinetmagazine.bsky.social/post/3lyl3dmgnxk22Heman Chong’s artist project on the back entrances of embassies, with an introductory essay by Adam Jasper, is now online! https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/68/chong.php11 Sep 2025 15:38 +0000at://did:plc:inkwlu2mdltnsfeqcyx4rtc6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyl3dmgnxk22https://bsky.app/profile/cabinetmagazine.bsky.social/post/3lxzayfv4dc24“When I was a little boy, I liked to pick my nose. In fact, I’ve enjoyed picking my nose for most of my life. This is not something to be proud of, but telling you about my nosepicking brings me to the word bice.” Jonathan Ames on bice from issue 1: https://cabinetmagazine.org/issues/1/ames.php04 Sep 2025 13:31 +0000at://did:plc:inkwlu2mdltnsfeqcyx4rtc6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxzayfv4dc24https://bsky.app/profile/cabinetmagazine.bsky.social/post/3ltmmlhdn7k2wFor our latest Inventory column, Jim Moske explores a beguiling collection of images from the NASA archives: photographs of flameholders, taken mainly in the 1940s and 1950s, which seem like cousins once removed of Dada experimentation. https://cabinetmagazine.org/issues/69/moske.php10 Jul 2025 15:13 +0000at://did:plc:inkwlu2mdltnsfeqcyx4rtc6/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltmmlhdn7k2whttps://bsky.app/profile/cabinetmagazine.bsky.social/post/3lrxskk2qcs2mAmanda Feilding wasn’t only a leading propagandist for drilling a hole in one’s head but also an early advocate for therapeutic psychedelics and drug policy reform. She died last month, aged 82. Read Christopher Turner’s article on Feilding from issue 28. https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/28/turner.php19 Jun 2025 15:09 +0000at://did:plc:inkwlu2mdltnsfeqcyx4rtc6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrxskk2qcs2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/cabinetmagazine.bsky.social/post/3lrg5sb3srk2qNEW ARTICLE: James G. Harper and Philip W. Scher discuss German anthropologist Julius Lips’s groundbreaking treatise on African, Indigenous Australian, and Oceanic depictions of foreigners, “The Savage Hits Back, or, The White Man through Native Eyes.” https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/69/harper_scher.php12 Jun 2025 14:42 +0000at://did:plc:inkwlu2mdltnsfeqcyx4rtc6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrg5sb3srk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/cabinetmagazine.bsky.social/post/3lqtzzmq5pk2gIn Berlin? Or within one week’s hiking distance? Come visit Cabinet at the Miss Read art book fair next week hosted by Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW). We will be selling books, magazines, and posters, and would love to meet our readers!05 Jun 2025 09:47 +0000at://did:plc:inkwlu2mdltnsfeqcyx4rtc6/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqtzzmq5pk2g