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The twelfth issue of Cabinet is 128 pages and features a special section on "The Enemy." Artist projects include Thomas Dworzak's found portraits of Taliban soldiers and work by Justine Kurland, Joy Garnett, The Speculative Archive, and Gianni Motti. A must-see issue for everyone who has ever had or been an enemy. Don't miss the portfolio of doodles by US presidents.

• The Clean Room / SARS Poetica
  David Serlin
  Illness, fashion, and the branding of epidemics
• Thing / No. 1
  David Byrne, Nib Westingford and Todd Wider
  Your guess is as good as ours!
• Leftovers / Love Locks
  Deborah Lutz
  Amorous hair jewelry
• Colors / Chartreuse
  Lynne Tillman
  Glimmering vile and beautiful

• Terrain Vague
  Jeff Byles
  The sublime art of demolition
• Artist Project / Collateral Damage
  Gianni Motti
  Introduced by Anselm Franke
• Ethereal Body: The Quest for Ectoplasm
  Marina Warner
  Seeing is believing
• Totality: The Color of Eclipse
  Ann Carson
  In the uncanny shadow of the Moon
• Darkness Visible
  Tom Vanderbilt
  Superblack, the blackest black of all
• A National Automobile for a National Economy
  Michael Stevenson
  Monocultures, motorcars, and New Zealand's Trekka experiment
• Trainschedulespotting
  Paul Collins
  Turning back the clock on timetables
• Presidential Doodles
  Jonathan Ames
  Sometimes a missile is just a missile
• Cabinetlandia: Update No. 1
  Sina Najafi
  Notes from Luna County

• The Ontology of the Enemy: An Interview with Peter Gallison
  Sina Najafi and Peter Galison
  The battlefield and cybernetic vision
• Listening for the Enemy
  Brian Dillon
  The sound mirrors of Dungeness
• Night Lights
  Mats Bigert
  Eindhoven in the shadows of the Protector Lamp
• Artist Project / Taliban
  Thomas Dworzak
  
• The Past Is in Flames: An Interview with Rebecca Knuth
  Jeffrey Kastner and Rebecca Knuth
  The destruction of books as a tool of war
• Paper Bullets: An Interview with Herbert A. Friedman
  John Peffer and Herbert A. Friedman
  On the history of airborne propaganda
• Artist Project / Narrative of Sdurn
  The Speculative Archive
  
• The Losers: An Interview with Wolfgang Schivelbusch
  Sina Najafi, Jay Worthington and Wolfgang Schivelbusch
  Toward a philosophy of defeat
• Annals of a Fortress
  Jay Worthington
  Twenty-two centuries of sieges, as seen from Viollet-le-Duc's La Roche Pont
• Fighting Words
  A selection of quotes on the enemy
• Artist Project / Birds of Freedom
  Justine Kurland
  
• New Model Army: An Interview with Michael van Lent
  Jay Worthington and Michael van Lent
  Computer gaming and the future of military training
• Burning Down the House
  An Architektur
  World War II bomb testing in Utah
• Talking to My Old Science Teacher about Drawings in which I Killed Him
  Brian McMullen
  Business Reply Mail abuse, beard theory, and makeshift gallows

• Postcard 1 / News
  Joy Garnett
  
• Postcard 2 / Taliban-Modified Street Sign
  Thomas Dworzak
  
• Bookmark / How to Make a Shrunken Head
  Fia Backström