Cabinet (2000–)
Filed under magazine | Tags: · animal, art, chance, culture, design, dust, electricity, evil, friendship, history, language, literature, magic, mapping, nature, property, science, underground, weather
“Cabinet is a quarterly, Brooklyn, New York-based, non-profit art & culture periodical launched in 2000. Cabinet also operates an event and exhibition space in Brooklyn.
Cabinet is an award-winning quarterly magazine of art and culture that confounds expectations of what is typically meant by the words “art,” “culture,” and sometimes even “magazine.” Like the 17th-century cabinet of curiosities to which its name alludes, Cabinet is as interested in the margins of culture as its center. Presenting wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary content in each issue through the varied formats of regular columns, essays, interviews, and special artist projects, Cabinet‘s hybrid sensibility merges the popular appeal of an arts periodical, the visually engaging style of a design magazine, and the in-depth exploration of a scholarly journal. Playful and serious, exuberant and committed, Cabinet‘s omnivorous appetite for understanding the world makes each of its issues a valuable sourcebook of ideas for a wide range of readers, from artists and designers to scientists and historians. In an age of increasing specialization, Cabinet looks to previous models of the well-rounded thinker to forge a new type of magazine for the intellectually curious reader of the future.”
Cabinet is a non-profit organization. Consider supporting it by subscribing to the magazine, buying a limited edition artwork, or making a tax-deductible donation.
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Comments (6)Sabrina Alcorn Baron, Brendan Dooley (eds.): The Politics of Information in Early Modern Europe (2001)
Filed under book | Tags: · 1600s, censorship, europe, history, media culture, print, publishing, reading
The invention and spread of newspapers in the seventeenth century had a profound effect on early modern European culture and politics. The European pattern for the delivery and consumption of political information provided the model for the rest of the world. However, the transition to printed news was neither rapid nor easy and a greater circulation of news had widely varying effects.
Recent research has revealed much about the origins and development of news publishing in each of its European settings. This book is the first to bring this research together in comprehensive survey. The international contributors to this volume study all of the most important information markets in Europe.
Topics covered include:
* the relation between printed and manuscript news
* role of censorship mechanisms
* effects of politics on reading and publishing
* effects of reading on contemporary politics
What emerges from this research is a new view of political information as an enterprise, and of the products of information as commodities circulating far and wide.
Publisher Routledge, 2001
ISBN 0415203104, 9780415203104
310 pages
Keywords and phrases
corantos, Antwerp, Restoration Newspaper, Pory, Copenhagen, Venice, Marchamont Nedham, Spain, Dutch Republic, Habsburg, seventeenth century, Privy Council, Hamburg, Courante uyt Italien, England, newsbooks, censorship, Mercurius, Ben Jonson, France
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Comment (1)Peter Linebaugh: The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All (2008)
Filed under book | Tags: · commons, history, law, liberty
This remarkable book shines a fierce light on the current state of liberty and shows how longstanding restraints against tyranny–and the rights of habeas corpus, trial by jury, and due process of law, and the prohibition of torture–are being abridged. In providing a sweeping history of Magna Carta, the source of these protections since 1215, this powerful book demonstrates how these ancient rights are repeatedly laid aside when the greed of privatization, the lust for power, and the ambition of empire seize a state. Peter Linebaugh draws on primary sources to construct a wholly original history of the Great Charter and its scarcely-known companion, the Charter of the Forest, which was created at the same time to protect the subsistence rights of the poor.
Publisher University of California Press, 2008
ISBN 0520247264, 9780520247260
352 pages
Keywords and phrases
Magna Carta, E. P. Thompson, estovers, Granville Sharp, U.S. Supreme Court, Runnymede, habeas corpus, Silvia Federici, King John, England, Charters of Liberties, Mowgli, Richard Mabey, pannage, John Warr, C. L. R. James, Italian American, Edward Coke, common lands, William Morris
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