INGESTION / THE WHITE RABBIT AND HIS COLORFUL TRICKS
Catherine Keyser
Breakfast cereal, dietary purity, and race
SENTENCES / BEFORE SHE SOLIDIFIED
Brian Dillon
Possibly not dead at all
INVENTORY / TWO GARDENS IN TWO BOOKS
Bennett Gilbert
Early modern herbaria and the question of botanical representation
LEFTOVERS / I WAS OPENED
Anonymous
The beauty of what remained
Main
RECTANGLE AFTER RECTANGLE
Amy Knight Powell
How the picture frame was shaped
HEGEL 2.0
Leif Weatherby
The imaginary history of ternary computing
AT THE SIGN OF THE MORTAL AND PESTLE
Alyssa Pelish
The persistence of mercantile emblems
NOTES FROM THE ATTIC
Mahan Moalemi
Displaying the material history of the CIA
Knowledge
INTRODUCTION
THE POWER OF NAMING
Cecilia Sjöholm
A technology for mastering the world
TELLING THE FUTURE
Steven Connor
Prophecy as performance
TWO MOMENTS FROM THE HISTORY OF DREAM ILLUMINATION
Marina Warner
Perchance to better understand Drinfel'd upper half space
NOBLE UNFAITH AND PERFECT KNOWLEDGE
Amy Hollywood
Hadewijch and the ravishment of love
ENCYCLOPEDIAS BEFORE L'ENCYCLOPÉDIE
William N. West
The circle of knowledge and its gaps
GIULIO CAMILLO AND THE THEATER OF KNOWLEDGE
Lina Bolzoni
A mind endowed with windows
THE DECEPTIONS OF UTOPIA
Anthony Grafton
Ruse and rationality in Francis Bacon's New Atlantis
THE BEAST IN THE BESTIARY
D. Graham Burnett
Charles Waterton’s “Nondescript”
WHAT DOES THE MELANCHOLIC KNOW?
Brian Dillon
Agonizing attention
PARANOIA, SCIENCE, AND THE ARCHITECTURES OF DELUSION
Jamieson Webster
Apocalypse and revelation
THE FULLNESS OF PHILOSOPHY
Sven-Olov Wallenstein
Hegel’s devouring machine
MODELING TIME
Daniel Rosenberg
The ruler of history
THEOLOGIES OF INFORMATION
Chris Wiley
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Ray Kurzweil, and the coming singularity
And
POSTCARD / BLACK CAB, GRAY MATTER
BOOKMARK / AND THEN THERE WERE NONE
KIOSK / FALL 2017–WINTER 2018