e-flux Journal #65 May 2015

#65 May 2015

Supercommunity

Ahmet Öğüt

Things Based on Real-Life Events

Karl Holmqvist

GORILLAZ GRRLZ

Ala Younis

Men of Bronze, Homes of Concrete

Dr. Beatriz Balanta, Benj Gerdes , Jennifer Hayashida, Christopher Myers , Brian Kuan Wood, and Mary Walling Blackburn

Child as Material

DIS

Styles and Customs in the 2020s

Jean-Luc Nancy

Oh the Animals of Language

Steven Shaviro

Arsenic Dreams

Federico Campagna

After Nihilism, After Technic: Sketches for a New Philosophical Architecture

Jonas Staal

Empire and Its Double: The Many Pavilions of the Islamic State

Oleksiy Radynski

The Arts for the Global Conflict: A 2115 Report

Sophia Al-Maria

TBH IDK FTW

Hiwa K

A Few Notes from an Extellectual

Ilya Budraitskis

The Extraordinary Adventures of Guy Fawkes

McKenzie Wark

The Vectoralist Class

Antonio Negri

Notes on the Abstract Strike

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle

Closing Editorial

Corruption

Elizabeth A. Povinelli

Windjarrameru, The Stealing C*nts

Jan Verwoert

Torn Together

Hu Fang

Why We Look at Plants, in a Corrupted World

Sarnath Banerjee

The Idle Monologue of an Unconvinced Surveyor

Yin-Ju Chen and James T. Hong

The Fruitarian Dilemma: A Dialogue about Kissing Ass, Corruption, and Compromise

Franco “Bifo” Berardi

The Message of Francis

Aaron Schuster

You Can’t Ask Everyone to Behave Ethically Just Like That

Charles Stankievech

Supercritical Decay

Naeem Mohaiemen

Traitors, a Mutable Lexicon

Denise Ferreira da Silva

Reading Art as Confrontation

Hassan Khan and Natasha Ginwala

Soaking in the Daily Curses: A Conversation

Wietske Maas

The Corruption of the Eye: On Photogenesis and Self-Growing Images

Cosmos

Boris Groys

Cosmic Anxiety: The Russian Case

Arseny Zhilyaev

Second Advents: On the Issue of Planning in Contemporary Art

Aleksandr Bogdanov

Immortality Day

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Theorems of Life (As an Addendum and Clarification on Monism)

Keti Chukhrov

Why Preserve the Name “Human”?

Nikolai Fedorov

The Museum, Its Meaning and Mission

Anton Vidokle

THE COMMUNIST REVOLUTION WAS CAUSED BY THE SUN: A PARTIAL SCRIPT FOR A SHORT FILM

Aleksandr Svyatogor

Our Affirmations

Planetary Computing

Ted Chiang and Allora & Calzadilla

The Great Silence

Julieta Aranda and Ana Teixeira Pinto

Turk, Toaster, Task Rabbit

Benjamin H. Bratton

On Deprofessionalizing Surgery

Ernesto Oroza and Gean Moreno

La Ville Souvenir

Adam Kleinman

ARGUS is: An Almost Cock and Bull Story

Tavi Meraud

Field Guide to Skirmology: Handbook for the Skirmonaut

Kader Attia

The Loop

Jussi Parikka

The Alchemic Digital, The Planetary Elemental

Metahaven

Eating Glass: The New Propaganda

Emily Segal

Mercury Retrograde

Apocalypsis

Jimmie Durham

Apocalypsis, or The Dragon in Her Cave

Pedro Neves Marques

Look Above, the Sky is Falling: Humanity Before and After the End of the World

Adrian Lahoud

Nomos and Cosmos

Lesley Green

The Changing of the Gods of Reason: Cecil John Rhodes, Karoo Fracking, and the Decolonizing of the Anthropocene

Jon Rich

ISIS and the CIA Vie for the Claim to Divinity

Déborah Danowski and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro

Is There Any World to Come?

Rory Rowan

Extinction as Usual?: Geo-Social Futures and Left Optimism

Ben Woodard

Less World to be Ourselves: A Note on Postapocalyptic Simplification

Marisol de la Cadena

Uncommoning Nature

Politics of Shine

Douglas Coupland

Shiny

Matteo Pasquinelli

On Solar Databases and the Exogenesis of Light

Anne Anlin Cheng and Tom Holert

Do You See It? Well, It Doesn’t See You!

Carolyn L. Kane

Plastic Shine: From Prosaic Miracle to Retrograde Sublime

Arjuna Neuman

Heart of Brightness

Tom Holert

Blackout City

Giuliana Bruno

Surface Encounters

The Art of Work

Nina Power

Construction with Steel and Technology

Luis Camnitzer

Thinking About Art Thinking

Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.)

Online Digital Artwork and the Status of the “Based-In” Artist

Liam Gillick

Weapons Grade Pig Work

Global Ultra Luxury Faction (G.U.L.F.)

On Direct Action: An Address to Cultural Workers

Guy Mannes-Abbott

Laboring One to Seven (Island of Terror)

“Art”

Martha Rosler

The Art of Cooking: A Dialogue Between Julia Child and Craig Claiborne

Harun Farocki

On the Documentary

Mohammad Salemy

Art After the Machines

Gertrude Stein

The Making of Americans

David Hodge and Hamed Yousefi

Provincialism Perfected: Global Contemporary Art and Uneven Development

Liu Ding and Carol Yinghua Lu

Crimes Without a Scene: Qian Weikang and the New Measurement Group

Emre Hüner and Pelin Tan

The Forms of Non-Belonging

Julieta Aranda and Brian Kuan Wood

Give Back to Your Alma Mater!

Susanne von Falkenhausen

Self-Identity is a Bad Visual System

Maria Lind

Made to Fit, or The Gathering of the Balloons

The Social Commons

Leela Gandhi and Bhrigupati Singh

Botched Enlightenment: A Conversation

Uzma Z. Rizvi

Theorizing Deposition: Transitional Stratigraphy, Disruptive Layers, and the Future

Showkat Kathjoo

The Memory of a Deluge and the Surface of Water

Rupali Gupte and Prasad Shetty

It Takes so Much for a City to Happen

Sean Dockray and Lawrence Liang

Sharing Instinct: An Annotation of the Social Contract Through Shadow Libraries

Sher Singh and Shveta Sarda

Of Work Riots, Political Prisoners, and Workers Refusing to Leave the Factory—Translated Through the Pages of Faridabad Workers News (2005–2015)

Raqs Media Collective

A Knot Untied in Two Parts

Cuba

Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo

Castroneirics: A Dreamitaph for Fidel (The Exquisite Cadaver)

Coco Fusco

The Revolution Is Dead—But Long Lives the State!

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