Table of Contents

The ninth issue of Cabinet features a themed section on "Childhood," which includes an audio CD. Artist projects include work by Helen Mirra, Byron Kim, Wendy Ewald, Marcel Dzama, Aura Rosenberg, Barbara Pollack, and Billy & Christo Holloway

• The Clean Room / Superfly Me to the Moon
  David Serlin
  Race, physiology, and the culture of aerospace science
• Leftovers / At Death's Doorknob
  Paul Collins
  The bloody-minded invention of Dr. Dibble
• Colors / Sulphur
  Thomas Beller
  Moody, toxic, light, and tasty
• Ingestion / Culinary Landscapes
  Allen S. Weiss
  Antonin Carême, the Palladio of cuisine

• The Wall and the Eye: An Interview with Eyal Weizman
  Jeffrey Kastner, Sina Najafi, and Eyal Weizman
  Architecture and negative planning in the West Bank
• Paint Your Troubles Away
  Richard Fleming
  A wall with a view in an Israeli settlement
• Cable TV's Failed Utopian Vision: An Interview with Dara Birnbaum
  Nicolás Guagnini and Dara Birnbaum
  Televisual activism and the revolution that never was
• Thaddeus Cahill's "Music Plant"
  Brian Dewan
  The Telharmonium and the promise of electrical music on tap
• Artist Project / To Be Looked at, from a Distance, with Eyes Crossed
  Dan Wolgers
  
• Hello, Nice to Meet You, Do You Want to Go to Holland?: A Conversation with Robert Kloos and Mónica de La Torre
  Regine Basha, Robert Kloos, and Mónica de la Torre
  How cultural attachés sell their countries
• Save Your Family
  Jay Worthington
  Readers' photos, protected until 2047

• Fröbel and the Gifts of Kindergarten
  Norman Brosterman
  Cultivating the modern child in the garden of play
• Artist Project / School Year
  Helen Mirra
  
• Where the Wild Things Were: An Interview with Leonard S. Marcus
  Brian Selznick, David Serlin, and Leonard S. Marcus
  The history of children's literature from Orbis Pictus to The Rabbits Wedding
• Artist Project / A Pack of Blind Sniffing Dogs
  Byron Kim
  
• Picturing Innocence: An Interview with Anne Higonnet
  Sina Najafi and Anne Higonnet
  From the ideal child to the knowing child
• Does the Proletarian Child Need a Fairytale?
  Alla Rosenfeld
  The Soviet-production book for children
• Artist Project / On Reading
  Wendy Ewald
  
• The Doll Games
  Pamela Jackson and Shelley Jackson
  Thirty years on, a scholarly reconsideration of the Jacksons' childhood world
• Homo Bulla: An Interview with Sabine Mödersheim
  Kris Coue and Sabine Mödersheim
  The trouble with bubbles
• Artist Project / Drawings
  Marcel Dzama
  
• Finders Keepers
  Michael Witmore
  On the history of prodigies
• Artist Project / Praxis Dr. Kössendrup
  Aura Rosenberg
  
• Skabetti, Peas, Apple Cake, and Ice Cream
  A meal based on recipes by children
• Special CD Insert / Juvenilia
  Curated by Brian Conley and Christoph Cox
  
• Artist Project / The Sound of Music
  Barbara Pollack
  
• Model Child: An Interview with Max Berger
  Joseph R. Wolin and Max Berger
  On being photographed. Constantly. By your mother.
• Some Relics of Childhood
  Rodney Phillips
  Early works by Auden, Isherwood, Kerouac, Plath, and Shelley
• Artist Project / Sculpture from Drawings
  Billy Holloway and Christo Holloway
  
• The Rough Guide: Favell Lee Mortimer's The Countries of Europe Described
  Todd Pruzan
  A xenophobic travelogue for Victorian tots

• Postcard / Babies of the World, Unite!