The talk will look at the strategies used in Cabinet magazine in order to help foster a "culture of curiosity" that evokes, in the words of Michel Foucault, "a care for what exists and could exist; a readiness to find strange and singular things that surround us; a relentlessness to break up our familiarities and to regard otherwise the same things; a fervor to grasp what is happening and what passes; a casualness in regard to the traditional hierarchies of the important and the essential."

Sina Najafi is editor-in-chief of Cabinet magazine and the editorial director of Cabinet Books. Najafi has also curated or co-curated a number of exhibitions, including "Philosophical Toys" (Apex Art, 2005), "The Museum of Projective Personality Testing" (Manifesta 7, Trento, 2008), "Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark's Fake Estates" (White Columns and Queens Museum of Art, 2005), and the traveling exhibition "The Paper Sculpture Show" (2003-2007). He has taught at Cooper Union, Yale, and RISD, and has degrees in Comparative Literature from Princeton, Columbia, and NYU.

www.cabinetmagazine.org

Event supported by CEC ARTS LINK (www.cecartslink.org). Special thanks to Tamalyn Miller and Fritzie Brown.

Image: Cabinet magazine, no. 34, Testing, 2009. Courtesy of the magazine.