The fifteenth issue of Cabinet features a themed section on "The Average." This section, guest-edited by Paul Fleming, includes artist projects by Rutherford Chang and Jason Salavon, an excerpt from Robert Shields's exhaustive diary (the world's longest, documenting every minute of his life), a history of paint by numbers, and a host of other theorizations of mediocrity.
Columns
Colors Matthew Klam
Purple
Purple
Inventory Jeffrey Kastner
$@#%*!!!
$@#%*!!!
Leftovers Philip W. Scher
The Day of the Remains
The Day of the Remains
Thing Paul Maliszewski, R.K. Scher, Mary Walling Blackburn
No. 2 - Three reports
No. 2 - Three reports
Streambeat Joseph Grigely
Fran Betters and the mysteries of streamside representation
Fran Betters and the mysteries of streamside representation
Are the Stars Out Tonight?: An Interview with Robert Evans Jeffrey Kastner
Scanning the sies with the world's greatest supernova hunter
Scanning the sies with the world's greatest supernova hunter
Artist project: The Celestial Incorporation Project Lee Boroson
Wilkommen in Irak! Walead Beshty & Eric Schwab
In Berlin, a little bit of Baghdad
In Berlin, a little bit of Baghdad
Rock Books Brian Tucker
Richard Sharpe Shaver's lapidary fantasies
Richard Sharpe Shaver's lapidary fantasies
En Piste: An Interview with James Niehues Jocko Weyland
The art of the ski-area map
The art of the ski-area map
- By the Numbers: An Interview with William L. Bird, Jr. Sasha Archibald & David Serlin
Painting a picture of the middle class
100,000 Average Joes Paul Fleming
Defining the middle ground
Defining the middle ground
Middle Men Eva Geulen
The aesthetics of the mediocre
The aesthetics of the mediocre
The Law Of Averages 1: Normman and Norma Dahlia S. Cambers
Looking for Mr. and Mrs. America
Looking for Mr. and Mrs. America
The Law Of Averages 2: American Adonia Mary Coffey
Eugenics, statistics, and the controversial paunch
Eugenics, statistics, and the controversial paunch
The Law Of Averages 3: Meet Marianne Mâns Wrange / Ombud
The Average Citizen Project
The Average Citizen Project
The Decline of the Average Mind Barry Sanders
Things fall apart
Things fall apart
Artist project: 100 Special Moments Jason Salavon
Predictable You Dahlia S. Cambers
On actuarial tables
On actuarial tables
Standard Deviation: An Interview with Jürgen Link Anne Mihan & Thomas O. Haakenson
Modernity and the reign of normalism
Modernity and the reign of normalism
One Damn Page After Another Robert Shields
The relentless diary
The relentless diary
Life on the Bell Curve: An Interview with Theodore Porter Paul Fleming
Redefining mediocrity
Redefining mediocrity
Artist project: Alphabetized Newspaper Rutherford Chang
Fanfares for the Common Man
A selection of political quotes
A selection of political quotes
How Little We Know of Our Neighbors Rebecca Baron
Mass-Observation and the meaning of everyday life
Mass-Observation and the meaning of everyday life
Buttons and Pockets
Drawings by Bernard Rudofsky
Drawings by Bernard Rudofsky
Postcard 1: Homokak Family (A Nut Study)
Postcard 2: Fitter Families for Future Firesides
Bookmark: The Pixel at Fifty
