Foreword by Keller Easterling
e-flux journal series editors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle
Publisher: Sternberg Press
December 2015, English
10.8 x 17.8cm, 200 pages, softcover
ISBN: 978-3-95679-195-6
Also available as an e-book: iBook / Kindle
the first of the e-flux journal series titles to be released as e-books in 2016
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The tenth title in the e-flux journal series with Sternberg Press, Benjamin H. Bratton’s kaleidoscopic theory-fiction links the utopian fantasies of political violence with the equally utopian programs of security and control. Both rely on all manner of doubles, models, gimmicks, ruses, prototypes, and shock-and-awe campaigns to realize their propagandas of the deed, threat, and image. Blurring reality and delusion, they collaborate on a literally psychotic politics of architecture.
In this mosaic we glimpse a future city built with designed violence and the violence of design. As one ratifies the other, the exception becomes the ruler.
Previous titles in the e-flux journal series:
The Internet Does Not Exist
Jalal Toufic: Forthcoming
Martha Rosler: Culture Class
Hito Steyerl: The Wretched of the Screen
Moscow Symposium: Conceptualism Revisited
Are You Working Too Much? Post-Fordism, Precarity, and the Labor of Art
Boris Groys: Going Public
What Is Contemporary Art?
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