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Space by vision

Antonis Sapountzis (Aristotle): Conspiracy Accounts as Intergroup Theories: Challenging Dominant Understandings of Social Power and Political Legitimacy. From New York, a special issue on sex. What would you do? A review of Traitor: The Whistleblower and the “American Taliban” by Jesselyn Radack and Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times by Eyal Press. From Cabinet, our aesthetic categories: An interview with Sianne Ngai on the cute, the interesting, and the zany; Mark Dorrian on Powers of Ten and the mastery of space by vision; Michael Wang on the Heck “Aurochs” and the quest for biological unity; and James Trainor on the lost world of New York City adventure playgrounds. Behind every new stadium or giant artwork is a team of engineers doing things that could not have been done a decade ago. Montaigne, Ben-Hur, and JFK: Gore Vidal talks with Bookforum (2007).