Cabinet #59 – The North

The idea of the North in modernity – its associations with sparseness and scarcity, to hardships and remoteness – has fed countless narratives of journeying to places and fates unknown. ‘Cabinet 59’, with a special section on “The North,” includes Jessica Rowan on five centuries of expeditions in search of the Northwest Passage; Joe Duncan on the US government’s rush to exploit Arctic resources made newly accessible by global warming; and Bettina Sierra on the attempts to recreate the atmospheric effects of the aurora borealis.

Columns

• Ingestion / Pitchers Mound
  Leland de la Durantaye
  How the olive oil trade built the eighth hill of Rome
• Colors / Army Green
  Alexander Keefe
  Half-alive at best
• Inventory / Motoring While Black
  Julian Lucas
  On the road with the Green Book in Jim Crow America
• Leftovers / Birds of a Feather
  Jeffrey Kastner
  The baroque bestiary of a Milanese gardner

Main

• Drawing the Foul
  Luke Healey
  Simulation and dissimulation on the soccer pitch
• Astronymy
  Justin E. H. Smith
  The philosopher’s stone
• Electric Caresses
  Dominic Pettman
  Rilke, Balthus, and Mitsou
• The Mansion House Tavern of Crossed Destinies
  Jonathan Allen
  Reading the tarot deck of Austin Osman Spare
• Artist Project / Cyclura nubila
  David Birkin
• A Model Railway Journey
  Ava Kofman
  Inside Hamburg’s Miniatur Wunderland

The North

• A Mind of Winter
  Charlie Fox
  The feeling of snow
• Man on Glacier
  Matthew Spellberg
  Reveries of a solitary roamer
• Artist Project / The North
  Hanna Ljungh
• Pease Porridge, Cold
  Polly Dickson
  What to eat at the North Pole
• The Archive of Ice
  D. Graham Burnett
  Tracing climate change at the National Ice Core Laboratory
• Artist Project / How to Be an Intentional Agent of Anthropochory
  Jessica Segall

And

• Postcard / Polar Postmarks
• Bookmark / South by South