Cabinet 68: The End

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Author: Najafi, SinaThe question of endings haunts human beings across all their endeavours, which is why the idea of finitude has been a topic of philosophy since its very incepti on. How to finish a work, how to conclude a relationship, how to die – these are interrelated questions that challenge aesthetics, morality and existence. Cabinet 68, with a special section on "The End," includes contributions from thinkers and writers Aaron Schuster, Jeff Dolven and Shireen Brooke.Aaron Schuster talks on the theoretical framework of the romantic breakup; Jeff Dolven on objects such as pencils or filterless cigarettes that serve as their own handles and can therefore not be used to the very end; and Shireen Brooke on Balzac’s “The Unknown Masterpiece” and the philosophy of the unfinishable. Elsewhere in the issue: Femke Herregraven on how the minute lags produced by the material infrastructure of the internet is exploited in high-frequency trading; Sasha Archibald on the influence of the Technicolor corporation’s Color Advisory Service on the history of cinema; and Benjamin Breen on British mathematician and Futurian Richard Medhurst and his role in debunking the work of the Society for Psychical Research.ISBN 9781932698831. Cabinet. pb. 96 pages. 20 x 26 cm.out of print Show more