Journal - e-flux

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Launched in 2008, e-flux journal is a monthly art publication featuring essays and contributions by some of the most engaged artists and thinkers working today. The journal is available online, in PDF format, and in print through a network of distributors.

Editors

Julieta Aranda
Brian Kuan Wood
Anton Vidokle

Editor-in-Chief

Kaye Cain-Nielsen

Art Director

Mariana Silva

Managing & Copy Editor

Mike Andrews

Contributing Editor

Elvia Wilk

Editorial Assistant

Andreas Petrossiants

Web Design

Alan Woo

Print Issue Graphic Design

Jeff Ramsey

Layout Generator for Print Issue

Adam Florin

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#92 June 2018

Julieta Aranda and Kaye Cain-Nielsen Editorial

Pilar Villela Mascaró One Eye Closed: An Exercise in Stereoscopy

Griselda Pollock Action, Activism, and Art and/as Thought: A Dialogue with the Artworking of Sonia Khurana and Sutapa Biswas and the Political Theory of Hannah Arendt

Renee Gladman Untitled (Environments)

Mary Walling Blackburn Sticky Notes, 1-3

Elizabeth A. Povinelli Mother Earth: Public Sphere, Biosphere, Colonial Sphere

Elvia Wilk The Word Made Fresh: Mystical Encounter and the New Weird Divine

Mirene Arsanios E autobiography di un idioma

Élisabeth Lebovici and Giovanna Zapperi Maso and Miso in the Land of Men’s Rights

Irmgard Emmelhainz Dragging (My) Shadows on a Circle: On Anger, Vulnerability, and Intimacy

Angela Dimitrakaki Feminism, Art, Contradictions

Chus Martínez But Still, Like Air, I’ll Rise

Ewa Majewska Feminism Will Not Be Televised

Simone White or, on being the other woman

#91 May 2018

Editors Editorial

Oxana Timofeeva Now Is Night

Andrei Platonov Immortality

Georg Lukács Emmanuil Levin

Robert Bird Articulations of (Socialist) Realism: Lukács, Platonov, Shklovsky

iLiana Fokianaki Redistribution via Appropriation: White(washing) Marbles

Michael Baers A First Step Towards a Regional Risk Assessment

Eva Díaz We Are All Aliens

Lev Ozerov Andrei Platonovich Platonov

#90 April 2018

Vivian Ziherl Editorial: Trade Markings

Richard Bell Bell’s Theorem: Aboriginal Art—It’s a White Thing!

Aileen Moreton-Robinson Bodies That Matter on the Beach

Wendelien van Oldenborgh Asset as Set: Filmmaking in Relation to a Certain Realness of Site

Rachel O’Reilly Dematerializations of the Land/Water Object

Ho Rui An Crisis and Contingency at the Dashboard

Angela Mitropoulos Art of Life, Art of War: Movement, Un/Common Forms, and Infrastructure

David Kim I, The Artwork: A Conversation with Yazan Khalili

Elizabeth A. Povinelli Horizons and Frontiers, Late Liberal Territoriality, and Toxic Habitats

Demian DinéYazhi’ An Infected Sunset (Excerpt)

#89 March 2018

Editors Editorial

Tam Donner Homeland Security Stylesheet: Incest Font

Dena Yago Content Industrial Complex

Ben Davis Three Tendencies of Future Art

Marco Baravalle Art Populism and the Alter-Institutional Turn

Natalya Serkova Learning from Machines, Seeing with a Thousand Eyes: On the Relevance of Russian Cosmism

Anastasia Gacheva Art as the Overcoming of Death: From Nikolai Fedorov to the Cosmists of the 1920s

Travis Diehl Soylent Beige: The Middle Gray of Taste

Alexander R. Galloway 21 Paragraphs on Badiou

#88 February 2018

Editors Editorial—Russian Cosmism

Anastasia Gacheva, Arseny Zhilyaev, and Anton Vidokle Timeline of Russian Cosmism

Maria Chehonadskih The Stofflichkeit of the Universe: Alexander Bogdanov and the Soviet Avant-Garde

Arseny Zhilyaev Optimists of the Future Past Perfect

Trevor Paglen Fedorov’s Geographies of Time

Keti Chukhrov Anagogia in Cosmism and Communism

Boris Groys Genealogy of Humanity

Marina Simakova Russian Cosmism: A Foretaste of Revolution

Alexei Penzin Contingency and Necessity in Evald Ilyenkov’s Communist Cosmology

Robert Bird How to Keep Communism Aloft: Labor, Energy, and the Model Cosmos in Soviet Cinema

#87 December 2017

Editors Editorial

Tristan Garcia The Intense Life: An Ethical Ideal

Jackie Wang “This Is a Story About Nerds and Cops”: PredPol and Algorithmic Policing

Aria Dean Notes on Blacceleration

Antonio Negri The Common Before Power: An Example

Kuba Szreder Productive Withdrawals: Art Strikes, Art Worlds, and Art as a Practice of Freedom

Irmgard Emmelhainz Self-Destruction as Insurrection, or, How to Lift the Earth Above All That Has Died?

Karen Sherman The Glory Hole

Theodor W. Adorno On the Concept of Beauty

Wayne Koestenbaum Lounge Act at Thek Lounge

#86 November 2017

Hito Steyerl, Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Stephen Squibb, and Anton Vidokle Editorial—“Strange Universalism”

Boris Buden and Darko Suvin Only Intelligent Planning Can Save Us

Hito Steyerl and Rojava Film Commune The Color of Women: An Interview with YPJ Commanders Dilovan Kobani, Nirvana, Ruken, and Zerin

Jodi Dean Four Theses on the Comrade

Önder Çakar, Rojava Film Commune, and Hito Steyerl “I don’t have time!”

Boris Groys Towards a New Universalism

Yuk Hui Cosmotechnics as Cosmopolitics

Stephen Squibb Parahistories of Self-Instituting Sunlight

Suely Rolnik The Spheres of Insurrection: Suggestions for Combating the Pimping of Life

Stefano Harney and Fred Moten Base Faith

#85 October 2017

#84 September 2017

#83 June 2017

Rosi Braidotti, Timotheus Vermeulen, Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Stephen Squibb, and Anton Vidokle Editorial—"The New Brutality"

Nina Power The Language of the New Brutality

Steffen Krüger Barbarous Hordes, Brutal Elites: The Traumatic Structure of Right-Wing Populism

Geert Lovink Overcoming Internet Disillusionment: On the Principles of Meme Design

Shumon Basar LOL History

Aaron Schuster Primal Scream, or Why Do Babies Cry?: A Theory of Trump

Erika Balsom The Reality-Based Community

Marion von Osten Human Animal Song

James T. Hong The Suspicious Archive, Part II: Every Word Is a Prejudice

The Second Coming

#82 May 2017

#81 April 2017

Editors Editorial

Alexander Kluge and Hans Ulrich Obrist What Art Can Do

Yuk Hui On the Unhappy Consciousness of Neoreactionaries

Xin Wang Asian Futurism and the Non-Other

Vivian Ziherl The Fourfold Articulation

Chen Chieh-jen Dissenting Voices of the Unwashed, Disobedient, Noncitizens, and Exiles in their Own Homes

Arthur Jafa and Tina Campt Love is the Message, The Plan is Death

Elizabeth A. Povinelli Geontologies: The Concept and Its Territories

David Morris Anti-Shows

#80 March 2017

Editors Editorial

Amy Ireland Black Circuit: Code for the Numbers to Come

Charles Tonderai Mudede Black Mirror Body

Boris Groys Dmitri Prigov: Haunted Spaces

Nana Adusei-Poku On Being Present Where You Wish to Disappear

Achille Mbembe Difference and Self-Determination

Barbara Cassin More Than One Language

Carol Yinghua Lu The Missing Front Line

Jonas Staal Assemblism

#79 February 2017

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Gean Moreno, Stephen Squibb, and Anton Vidokle Editorial—“As the world falls apart…”

David Marriott On Decadence: Bling Bling

Denise Ferreira da Silva 1 (life) ÷ 0 (blackness) = ∞ − ∞ or ∞ / ∞: On Matter Beyond the Equation of Value

Jared Sexton All Black Everything

Sampada Aranke Material Matters: Black Radical Aesthetics and the Limits of Visibility

Lamin Fofana Dis/Continuum

Patrick King Introduction to Boggs

James Boggs Black Power: A Scientific Concept Whose Time Has Come

Nicholas Mirzoeff Below the Water: Black Lives Matter and Revolutionary Time

Adam Pendleton Just Back from Los Angeles: A Portrait of Yvonne Rainer

#78 December 2016

#77 November 2016

Editors Editorial

Boris Groys Towards the New Realism

Martha Rosler Why Are People Being So Nice?

Victor Skersis Analytical Conceptualism

Étienne Balibar Citizen Subject

Antonia Majaca and Luciana Parisi The Incomputable and Instrumental Possibility

Irmgard Emmelhainz Decolonization as the Horizon of Political Action

Not An Alternative Institutional Liberation

McKenzie Wark Digital Provenance and the Artwork as Derivative

#76 October 2016

Sven Lütticken, Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Stephen Squibb, and Anton Vidokle Editorial—“The Perfect Storm”

Hito Steyerl If You Don’t Have Bread, Eat Art!: Contemporary Art and Derivative Fascisms

Ilya Budraitskis What Can We Learn from Vampires and Idiots?

Keti Chukhrov In the Nebulous Zone between Class Antagonism and Violence

Boris Buden With the Blow of a Paintbrush: Contemporary Fascism and the Limits of Historical Analogy

Ewa Majewska and Kuba Szreder So Far, So Good: Contemporary Fascism, Weak Resistance, and Postartistic Practices in Today’s Poland

Sven Lütticken Who Makes the Nazis?

Ana Teixeira Pinto Male Fantasies: The Sequel(s)

Tony Wood Some Theses on “Populism”

Jonas Staal Transdemocracy

#75 September 2016

Editors Editorial

Donna Haraway Tentacular Thinking: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene

Matteo Pasquinelli Abnormal Encephalization in the Age of Machine Learning

Antonia Majaca Little Daniel Before the Law: Algorithmic Extimacy and the Rise of the Paranoid Apparatus

Mari Bastashevski The Perfect Con

Ahmet Öğüt Obscure Sorrows: Thoughts around the 9th Berlin Biennale

Ariel Goldberg Simplicity Craving

Geert Lovink On the Social Media Ideology

James T. Hong The Suspicious Archive, Part I: A Prejudiced Interpretation of the Interpretation of Archives

#74 June 2016

Editors Editorial—“Art Ontologies of Silicon Valley”

Douglas Coupland What if There’s No Next Big Thing?

Ingrid Burrington Light Industry: Toxic Waste and Pastoral Capitalism

Andrew Norman Wilson The Artist Leaving the Googleplex

Mike Pepi Asynchronous! On the Sublime Administration of the Everyday

Lee Mackinnon Love Machines and the Tinder Bot Bildungsroman

Elvia Wilk The Artist-in-Consultance: Welcome to the New Management

Alexander R. Galloway Jodi’s Infrastructure

Zach Blas Contra-Internet

Marina Simakova No Man’s Space: On Russian Cosmism

#73 May 2016

Editors Editorial

Giorgio Agamben Toward an Ontology of Style

On the Frontier, Again

Claire Fontaine Our Common Critical Condition

Rebekah Sheldon Queer Universal

David Claerbout The Silence of the Lens

Franco “Bifo” Berardi and Marco Magagnoli Blu’s Iconoclasm and the End of the Dada Century

Stefan Heidenreich Freeportism as Style and Ideology: Post-Internet and Speculative Realism, Part II

María Iñigo Clavo Modernity vs. Epistemodiversity

#72 April 2016

Editors Editorial

Hito Steyerl A Sea of Data: Apophenia and Pattern (Mis-)Recognition

Nathan K. Hensley Drone Form: Word and Image at the End of Empire

Lindsay Caplan Method without Methodology: Data and the Digital Humanities

Ben Davis Connoisseurship and Critique

Ana Teixeira Pinto Enantiomorphs in Hyperspace: Living and Dying on the Fourth Dimension

Orit Gat Could Reading Be Looking?

Yates McKee Occupy and the End of Socially Engaged Art

Benjamin H. Bratton The Role of Megastructure in the Eschatology of John Frum (On OMA’s Master Plan for the Spratly Islands)

#71 March 2016

Editors Editorial

Boris Groys The Truth of Art

Saisha Grayson Agitprop!: A Conversation with Martha Rosler, Nancy Buchanan, and Andrea Bowers

Stefan Heidenreich Freeportism as Style and Ideology: Post-Internet and Speculative Realism, Part I

Jane DeBevoise Big Business, Selling Shrimps: The Market as Imaginary in Post-Mao China

Irmgard Emmelhainz Geopolitics and Contemporary Art, Part II: The Nation-State as the Possible Container for Global Struggles

Luis Camnitzer The Cracked Ming Cup

Alan Gilbert Walid Raad’s Spectral Archive, Part II: Testimony of Ghosts

Arseny Zhilyaev Factories of Resurrection: Interview with Anton Vidokle

#70 February 2016

Editors Editorial

Hito Steyerl A Tank on a Pedestal: Museums in an Age of Planetary Civil War

Gleb Napreenko A Farewell to Totality

From the Anxiety of Participation to the Process of De-Internationalization

Ilya Budraitskis The Eternal Hunt for the Red Man

McKenzie Wark The Vectoralist Class, Part II

Charles Tonderai Mudede The Equalizer

#69 January 2016

Editors Editorial

Franco “Bifo” Berardi The Coming Global Civil War: Is There Any Way Out?

Jodi Dean The Anamorphic Politics of Climate Change

Alan Gilbert Walid Raad’s Spectral Archive, Part I: Historiography as Process

Benjamin H. Bratton El Proceso (The Process)

Reza Negarestani What Is Philosophy? Part Two: Programs and Realizabilities

Neither Autocracy nor Automatism: Notes on Autonomy and the Aesthetic

Irmgard Emmelhainz Geopolitics and Contemporary Art, Part I: From Representation’s Ruin to Salvaging the Real

Jonas Staal IDEOLOGY = FORM

#68 December 2015

Coco Fusco Editorial—“Cuba: The Fading of a Subcontinental Dream”

Ernesto Hernández Busto The Forbidden Symbols

Danilo Maldonado Machado (El Sexto) Letter from Prison

Iván de la Nuez Apotheosis Now

Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti Condemn Us, It Does Not Matter: Art Will Absolve Us

Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo Castrolence

Sandra Ceballos Artist Against Artist

Enrique Colina Alvarez On Censorship and Its Demons

Lázaro Saavedra Tania Wins, Civil Rights Continue to Lose

Antonio José Ponte The Putinization of Cuban Art

Amaury Pacheco del Monte Alamar: An Oblique Approach

#67 November 2015

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial

Ana Teixeira Pinto Death Wall: Extinction, Entropy, Singularity

Douglas Coupland Stuffed: How Hoarding and Collecting Is the Stuff of Life and Death

Luis Camnitzer Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Reza Negarestani What Is Philosophy? Part One: Axioms and Programs

Boris Groys NSK: From Hybrid Socialism to Universal State

David Riff Was Marx a Dancer?

Charles Tonderai Mudede Neoliberalism and the New Afro-Pessimism: Djibril Diop Mambéty’s Hyènes

Natasha Ginwala Corruption: Three Bodies, and Ungovernable Subjects

#66 October 2015

Nikolaus Hirsch, Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial—“Architecture as Intangible Infrastructure,” Issue Two

Beatriz Colomina X-Screens: Röntgen Architecture

Andrew Herscher Humanitarianism’s Housing Question: From Slum Reform to Digital Shelter

Kadambari Baxi, Jordan Carver, and Mabel O. Wilson Who Builds Your Architecture?: An Advocacy Report

Jorge Otero-Pailos Monumentaries: Toward a Theory of the Apergon

Bernard Khoury Plan B

Niklas Maak The Dispersal of Architecture

Hu Fang Towards a Non-Intentional Space

Hans Ulrich Obrist In Conversation with Hans Hollein

Taryn Simon A Polite Fiction

Rem Koolhaas and Ingo Niermann Dated Talks

Shumon Basar Nothing Is More Fantastic Ultimately than Precision: John Hejduk’s Berlin Tower

#65 May 2015

#64 April 2015

Nikolaus Hirsch, Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial—“Architecture as Intangible Infrastructure,” Issue One

Keller Easterling IIRS

Pier Vittorio Aureli Intangible and Concrete: Notes on Architecture and Abstraction

Justin McGuirk Honeywell, I’m Home! The Internet of Things and the New Domestic Landscape

Ravi Sundaram Post-Postcolonial Sensory Infrastructure

Eyal Weizman Violence at the Threshold of Detectability

Philip Ursprung Out of Bologna: Lacaton and Vassal’s Nantes School of Architecture

Felicity D. Scott “Vanguards”

#63 March 2015

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial

Irmgard Emmelhainz Conditions of Visuality Under the Anthropocene and Images of the Anthropocene to Come

McKenzie Wark Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene (On Alexander Bogdanov and Kim Stanley Robinson)

Hito Steyerl Duty-Free Art

Jonas Staal To Make a World, Part III: Stateless Democracy

Naeem Mohaiemen All That is Certain Vanishes Into Air: Tracing the Anabasis of the Japanese Red Army

Simon Sheikh Circulation and Withdrawal, Part II: Withdrawal

Beti Žerovc Joséphin Péladan: A Proto-Curator?

#62 February 2015

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial

Luis Camnitzer The Detweeting of Academia

Simon Sheikh Circulation and Withdrawal, Part I: Circulation

Ahmet Öğüt CCC: Currency of Collective Consciousness

Paolo Virno Déjà Vu and the End of History

Paul Feigelfeld Media Archaeology Out of Nature: An Interview with Jussi Parikka

Philip Grant Too Real an Unreality: Financial Markets as Occult

Jon Rich The Communal Rift: The State Must be Defended

Ewa Majewska The Common in the Time of Creative Reproductions: On Gerald Raunig’s Factories of Knowledge, Industries of Creativity

#61 January 2015

Tom Holert, Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial—“Politics of Shine”

Tom Holert The Sunshine State

Natascha Sadr Haghighian Disco Parallax

Tavi Meraud Iridescence, Intimacies

Timotheus Vermeulen The New “Depthiness”

Adrian Rifkin Yes, That’s What I Think …

Shine and Schein

Brian Kuan Wood Is it Heavy or Is it Light?

#60 December 2014

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial

Mike Pepi Is a Museum a Database?: Institutional Conditions in Net Utopia

Franco “Bifo” Berardi The Neuroplastic Dilemma: Consciousness and Evolution

Porter McCray American Tutti-Frutti

Hito Steyerl Proxy Politics: Signal and Noise

Ali Shamseddine and John Rich An Introduction to the New Syrian National Archive

Arseny Zhilyaev Conceptual Realism: The Vulgar Freedom of Avant-Garde Museum Work

Jonas Staal To Make a World, Part II: The Art of Creating a State

Anna T. The Opacity of Queer Languages

Coco Fusco The State of Detention: Performance, Politics, and the Cuban Public

#59 November 2014

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial—Harun Farocki

Kodwo Eshun A Question They Never Stop Asking

Ruchir Joshi Also of Things: Notes for a Film Remembering Harun Farocki

Christa Blümlinger An Archeologist of the Present

James Benning FAROCKI

Anselm Franke A Critique of Animation

Cathy Lee Crane Letters to Harun

Doreen Mende The Many Haruns: A Timeline Through Books and Hand Gestures from 18,000 BC–2061

Alice Creischer and Andreas Siekmann How to Wear a Scissor-Wielding Trifecta on a T-Shirt

Thomas Elsaesser and Alexander Alberro Farocki: A Frame for the No Longer Visible: Thomas Elsaesser in Conversation with Alexander Alberro

Filipa César Joint Leopard Dot

Ute Holl Farocki’s Cinematic Historiography: Reconstructing the Visible

Jan Ralske Harun’s Highway

Constanze Ruhm Attachment:

Trevor Paglen Operational Images

Bani Khoshnoudi Watch and Learn

Armin Linke In His Reading Chair

Hito Steyerl Beginnings

#58 October 2014

Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial—“Quasi-Events”

Karrabing Film Collective Holding Up the World, Part I

Elizabeth A. Povinelli Holding Up the World, Part II: Time/Bank, Effort/Embankments

Lauren Berlant and Elizabeth A. Povinelli Holding Up the World, Part III: In the Event of Precarity … A Conversation

Audra Simpson, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, and Liza Johnson Holding Up the World, Part IV: After a Screening of When the Dogs Talked at Columbia University

Natasha Ginwala and Vivian Ziherl The Negative Floats: Questions of Earth Inheritance

McKenzie Wark Designs for a New World

Rory Rowan SO NOW!: On Normcore

Tess Lea “From Little Things, Big Things Grow”: The Unfurling of Wild Policy

Gean Moreno and Ernesto Oroza “Un solo palo no hace monte”: Notes on the Otherwise’s Inevitable Infecundity

Debbora Battaglia Cosmos as Commons: An Activation of Cosmic Diplomacy

Dilip Gaonkar After the Fictions: Notes Towards a Phenomenology of the Multitude

#57 September 2014

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial—“The End of the End of History?” Issue Two

Arseny Zhilyaev The Places of History

Jonas Staal To Make a World, Part I: Ultranationalism and the Art of the Stateless State

Hassan Khan “A Monster Was Born”: Notes on the Rebirth of the “Corrupt Intellectual”

Miran Mohar Why Neue Slowenische Kunst in German?

Sotirios Bahtsetzis Democrisis: Notes on the Capitalist Imaginary of Europe

Eduardo Cachucho Red Berets and Economic Accomplices

Bilal Khbeiz The Dead Afghani before the Camera and before Death

Suzana Milevska Ágalma: The ‟Objet Petit a,” Alexander the Great, and Other Excesses of Skopje 2014

Keti Chukhrov On the False Democracy of Contemporary Art

Knut Åsdam Nationalism: Persistence and Political Upkeep

Edit András Vigorous Flagging in the Heart of Europe: The Hungarian Homeland under the Right-Wing Regime

Ilya Budraitskis Hope in a Hopeless Situation

#56 June 2014

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial—“The End of the End of History?” Issue One

Nina Power Rainy Fascism Island

LaborinArt Running Along the Disaster: A Conversation with Franco “Bifo” Berardi

Sabu Kohso Mutation of the Triad: Totalitarianism, Fascism, and Nationalism in Japan

Oleksiy Radynski Maidan and Beyond, Part II: The Cacophony of Donbas

Oxana Timofeeva The End of the World: From Apocalypse to the End of History and Back

Walid Raad Appendix XVIII: Plates 22-257

Boris Groys On Art Activism

Lawrence Liang Ultranationalism: A Proposal for a Quiet Withdrawal

Raqs Media Collective Is the World Sleeping, Sleepless, or Awake or Dreaming?

James T. Hong The Nationalist Thing Which Thinks: Notes on a Genealogy of Ultranationalism

Szabolcs KissPál The Rise of a Fallen Feather: The Symbolism of the Turul Bird in Contemporary Hungary

Liu Ding and Carol Yinghua Lu From the Issue of Art to the Issue of Position: The Echoes of Socialist Realism, Part II

Daniel Birnbaum Obituary for Sturtevant

Ekaterina Degot A Text That Should Never Have Been Written?

#55 May 2014

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial

Oleksiy Radynski Maidan and Beyond, Part I

Chus Martinez The Octopus in Love

Gleb Napreenko Back in the USSR?

Liu Ding and Carol Yinghua Lu From the Issue of Art to the Issue of Position: The Echoes of Socialist Realism, Part I

Jalal Toufic A Hitherto Unrecognized Apocalyptic Photographer: The Universe

Luis Camnitzer An Artist, a Leader, and a Dean Were on a Boat…

Grant Kester Response to E.C. Feiss

#54 April 2014

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial

Keti Chukhrov Sexuality in a Non-Libidinal Economy

Boris Groys Poetics of Entropy: The Post-Suprematist Art of Mladen Stilinović

Ana Ofak Gentleman Next Door: Antonio G. Lauer, a.k.a. Tomislav Gotovac, and the Man Undressed in Times of Socialism

Geert Lovink Hermes on the Hudson: Notes on Media Theory after Snowden

Ross Wolfe Repetition-Compulsion: World-Historical Rhythms in Architecture

Walid Raad Index XXVI: Red

Stephen Squibb Genres of Capitalism, Part II

E. C. Feiss Response to Grant Kester’s “The Device Laid Bare”

#53 March 2014

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial

Antonio Negri Reflections on the “Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics”

Benjamin H. Bratton The Black Stack

Ane Hjort Guttu How to Become a Non-Artist

Kim Turcot DiFruscia Shapes of Freedom: A Conversation with Elizabeth A. Povinelli

Reza Negarestani The Labor of the Inhuman, Part II: The Inhuman

Mary Walling Blackburn Sister Apple, Sister Pig: Speculative Annotations

Brian Kuan Wood Is it Love?

Pierre Bal-Blanc, Ferran Barenblit, Alexandra Baudelot, Binna Choi, Eyal Danon, Maria Lind, Pablo Martínez, Sanne Oorthuizen, Emily Pethick, Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, and Tadej Pogačar How to Begin Living in the Trees?

#52 February 2014

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial

Reza Negarestani The Labor of the Inhuman, Part I: Human

Ane Hjort Guttu The Rich Should Be Richer

Tom Holert National Heterologies: On the Materiality and Mediality of Flags—Mali 2013

Tyler Coburn Charter Citizen

Jonas Staal Art. Democratism. Propaganda.

Antke Engel The Elegantly Strong Triad: Defamiliarizing the Family in Works by LaToya Ruby Frazier and Henrik Olesen

Stephen Squibb Genres of Capitalism, Part I

Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval The New Way of the World, Part II: The Performance/Pleasure Apparatus

#51 January 2014

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial

Walid Raad Section 139: The Atlas Group (1989–2004)

Lindsay Caplan Framing Artwork

Gean Moreno New Ancestors: A Conversation with McKenzie Wark

Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval The New Way of the World, Part I: Manufacturing the Neoliberal Subject

Melissa Gronlund Return of the Gothic: Digital Anxiety in the Domestic Sphere

#50 December 2013

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial

Ursula K. Heise From the Blue Planet to Google Earth

Boris Groys Entering the Flow: Museum between Archive and Gesamtkunstwerk

Shezad Dawood Towards the Possible Film (A Script with Some Notable Interruptions)

Jalal Toufic If You Prick Us, Do We Not Bleed? No

Metahaven Captives of the Cloud, Part III: All Tomorrow’s Clouds

Grant Kester The Device Laid Bare: On Some Limitations in Current Art Criticism

#49 November 2013

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial—“Pieces of the Planet” Issue Two

World History and Earth Art

Hito Steyerl Too Much World: Is the Internet Dead?

Hu Fang Dear Navigator, Part II

Abdulkhaleq Abdulla, Manal Al Dowayan, Parag Khanna, and Turi Munthe Freezone: Dubai

Walid Raad Walkthrough, Part II

Gleb Napreenko On the Format of the Divine

Nato Thompson The Insurgents, Part II: Fighting the Left by Being the Left

#48 October 2013

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial—“Pieces of the Planet” Issue One

Jalal Toufic Middle Eastern Films Before Thy Gaze Returns to Thee—in Less than 1/24 of a Second

Anton Vidokle Energy of Kosmos is Indestructible!!!

Oxana Timofeeva Communism with a Nonhuman Face

Hu Fang Dear Navigator, Part I

Walid Raad Walkthrough, Part I

Walter Benjamin The Making of Americans

Rijin Sahakian A Reply to Nato Thompson’s “The Insurgents, Part I”

Home Workspace Program Participants Chapter Zero

#47 September 2013

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial

Boris Groys Becoming Revolutionary: On Kazimir Malevich

Nato Thompson The Insurgents, Part I: Community-Based Practice as Military Methodology

Amanda Boetzkes and Andrew Pendakis Visions of Eternity: Plastic and the Ontology of Oil

Jon Rich The Bachelor Century: Single Sinners Seeking God’s Job

Claire Fontaine We Are All Clitoridian Women: Notes on Carla Lonzi’s Legacy

Lars Bang Larsen The Society Without Qualities

#46 June 2013

Gean Moreno Editorial—“Accelerationist Aesthetics”

Alex Williams Escape Velocities

Steven Shaviro Accelerationist Aesthetics: Necessary Inefficiency in Times of Real Subsumption

Benjamin H. Bratton Some Trace Effects of the Post-Anthropocene: On Accelerationist Geopolitical Aesthetics

François Roche Gre(Y)en (a history of local operative criticism)

Franco “Bifo” Berardi Accelerationism Questioned from the Point of View of the Body

Mark Fisher “A social and psychic revolution of almost inconceivable magnitude”: Popular Culture’s Interrupted Accelerationist Dreams

Benedict Singleton Maximum Jailbreak

Debbora Battaglia Cosmic Exo-Surprise, or, When the Sky is (Really) Falling, What’s the Media to Do?

Patricia MacCormack Cosmogenic Acceleration: Futurity and Ethics

John Russell Abysmal Plan: Waiting Until We Die and Radically Accelerated Repetitionism

#45 May 2013

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial—‟Language and Internet”

Hito Steyerl International Disco Latin

Martha Rosler English and All That

Geert Lovink After the Social Media Hype: Dealing with Information Overload

Ana Teixeira Pinto The Whole Earth: In Conversation with Diedrich Diederichsen and Anselm Franke

Abou Farman Towards a Post-Secular Aesthetics: Provocations for Possible Media in Afterlife Art

Natasha Ginwala and Vivian Ziherl Sensing Grounds: Mangroves, Unauthentic Belonging, Extra-Territoriality

Brian Kuan Wood We Are the Weather

Boris Groys Art Workers: Between Utopia and the Archive

#44 April 2013

Carlos Motta Editorial—“(Im)practical (Im)possibilities”

Beatriz Preciado Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics

Jack Halberstam Charming for the Revolution: A Gaga Manifesto

Miguel A. López Queer Corpses: Grupo Chaclacayo and the Image of Death

Virginia Solomon What is Love?: Queer Subcultures and the Political Present

Greg Youmans Living on the Edge: Recent Queer Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area

Ryan Conrad The Defiant Prose of Sarah Schulman

Malik Gaines A Defense of Marriage Act: Notes on the Social Performance of Queer Ambivalence

Nathan Lee Becoming-Undetectable

Antke Engel and Renate Lorenz Toxic Assemblages, Queer Socialities: A Dialogue of Mutual Poisoning

Gregg Bordowitz Anhedonia

#43 March 2013

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial

Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige On the Lebanese Rocket Society

Franco “Bifo” Berardi Pasolini in Tottenham

James T. Hong From Guilt to Sickness, Part II: The Bite of a Dog into a Stone

Marina Vishmidt “Mimesis of the Hardened and Alienated”: Social Practice as Business Model

Anton Vidokle Art without Market, Art without Education: Political Economy of Art

Marina Gržinić A Refugee Protest Camp in Vienna And the European Union’s Processes of Racialization, Seclusion, and Discrimination

#42 February 2013

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial

Dieter Roelstraete The Business: On the Unbearable Lightness of Art

Rasmus Fleischer How Music Takes Place: Excerpts From “The Post-digital Manifesto”

Hans Ulrich Obrist In Conversation with Nawal El Saadawi

Adam Kleinman On Sophia Al-Maria’s The Girl Who Fell to Earth

James T. Hong From Guilt to Sickness, Part I: Looking for Plague in All the Right Places

Irmgard Emmelhainz Art and the Cultural Turn: Farewell to Committed, Autonomous Art?

#41 January 2013

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial

The Palestinian Museum of Natural History and Humankind The End of Neonationalism: On The Comparative Certainty of Extraterrestrial Life and its Significance for Humankind (Earth and the Solar System Sectio

Keti Chukhrov Epistemological Gaps between the Former Soviet East and the “Democratic” West

Hito Steyerl Freedom from Everything: Freelancers and Mercenaries

Alan Gilbert Allegories of Art, Politics, and Poetry

Zdenka Badovinac, Eda Čufer, Cristina Freire, Boris Groys, Charles Harrison, Vít Havránek, Piotr Piotrowski, and Branka Stipančić Conceptual Art and Eastern Europe: Part II

Ana Teixeira Pinto In Memory of Aaron Swartz

#40 December 2012

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial

Geert Lovink What Is the Social in Social Media?

Zdenka Badovinac, Eda Čufer, Cristina Freire, Boris Groys, Charles Harrison, Vít Havránek, Piotr Piotrowski, and Branka Stipančić Conceptual Art and Eastern Europe: Part I

Anton Vidokle In Conversation with Ilya and Emilia Kabakov

Hu Fang The Door to Slow Sunset

Franco “Bifo” Berardi Nightmares and Screens: Notes on Two Movies

#39 November 2012

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial

Franco “Bifo” Berardi Emancipation of the Sign: Poetry and Finance During the Twentieth Century

Jodi Dean Democracy: A Knot of Hope and Despair

Jalal Toufic The Resurrected Brother of Mary and Martha: A Human Who Resurrected God!

Mark Beasley Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence: The Voice in Mike Kelley’s Music

Michael Baers Michael Asher (1943–2012): Parting Words and Unfinished Work

Cédric Vincent Friction in Benin

#38 October 2012

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial—“Structural Violence”

Inside Abstraction

Jon Rich Facebook: A Court of Ignorant, Cruel Judges

Bilal Khbeiz In Praise of Books: When Authorities Close a Prison, They Foil a Revolution!

Hito Steyerl Missing People: Entanglement, Superposition, and Exhumation as Sites of Indeterminacy

Eyal Weizman 665: The Least of All Possible Evils

Pelin Tan Breaking the Social Contract

Metahaven Captives of the Cloud: Part II

Cuauhtémoc Medina A History of Infinity and Some Fresh Catastrophes: On Raqs Media Collective’s The Capital of Accumulation

#37 September 2012

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial

Lawrence Liang Shadow Libraries

Metahaven Captives of the Cloud: Part I

Amelia Groom There’s Nothing to See Here: Erasing the Monochrome

Nato Thompson The Last Pictures: Interview with Trevor Paglen

Claire Tancons Carnival to Commons: Pussy Riot, Punk Protest, and the Exercise of Democratic Culture

Anton Vidokle and Brian Kuan Wood Breaking the Contract

#36 July 2012

Anselm Franke Introduction—“Animism”

Isabelle Stengers Reclaiming Animism

Harry Garuba On Animism, Modernity/Colonialism, and the African Order of Knowledge: Provisional Reflections

Spyros Papapetros Darwin’s Dog and the Parasol: Cultural Reactions to Animism

Diedrich Diederichsen Animation, De-reification, and the New Charm of the Inanimate

Michael Taussig The Stories Things Tell And Why They Tell Them

Anselm Franke Animism: Notes on an Exhibition

Angela Melitopoulos and Maurizio Lazzarato Assemblages: Félix Guattari and Machinic Animism

Rane Willerslev Laughing at the Spirits in North Siberia: Is Animism Being Taken too Seriously?

Alejandro Haber Severo’s Severity and Antolín’s Paradox

Cornelius Borck Animism in the Sciences Then and Now

Tom Holert “A live monster that is fruitful and multiplies”: Capitalism as Poisoned Rat?

#35 May 2012

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial

Elizabeth A. Povinelli After the Last Man: Images and Ethics of Becoming Otherwise

Bilal Khbeiz Dubai: A City Manufactured by Curiosity

Boris Groys Under the Gaze of Theory

Sotirios Bahtsetzis Eikonomia: Notes on Economy and the Labor of Art

Irmgard Emmelhainz Between Objective Engagement and Engaged Cinema: Jean-Luc Godard’s “Militant Filmmaking” (1967–1974), Part II

John Miller Politics of Hate in the USA, Part III: Posse Comitatus, Grassroots Rebellion, and Secret Societies

#34 April 2012

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial

Bilal Khbeiz Escaping From Exile by Belonging to an Exiled Land

Inke Arns The Nigerian Connection: On NSK Passports as Escape and Entry Vehicles

Michael Baers No Good Time for an Exhibition: Reflections on the Picasso in Palestine Project, Part II

John Miller Politics of Hate in the USA, Part II: Right-Wing Mysticism and Beliefs

Mladen Dolar Hegel and Freud

Slavoj Žižek Hegel on Marriage

Irmgard Emmelhainz Between Objective Engagement and Engaged Cinema: Jean-Luc Godard’s “Militant Filmmaking” (1967–1974), Part I

#33 March 2012

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial

Michael Baers No Good Time for an Exhibition: Reflections on the Picasso in Palestine Project, Part I

John Miller Politics of Hate in the USA, Part I: Repressive Tolerance

Alenka Zupančič Not-Mother: On Freud’s Verneinung

Mladen Dolar One Divides into Two

Hans Ulrich Obrist In Conversation with Adam Curtis, Part II

Martha Rosler The Artistic Mode of Revolution: From Gentrification to Occupation

#32 February 2012

Aaron Schuster, Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial

Hans Ulrich Obrist In Conversation with Adam Curtis, Part I

Alenka Zupančič Sexual Difference and Ontology

Slavoj Žižek Hegel versus Heidegger

Hito Steyerl The Spam of the Earth: Withdrawal from Representation

Gean Moreno Notes on the Inorganic, Part II: Terminal Velocity

#31 January 2012

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial

Keller Easterling An Internet of Things

Gean Moreno Notes on the Inorganic, Part I: Accelerations

Gregory Sholette After OWS: Social Practice Art, Abstraction, and the Limits of the Social

Sven Lütticken General Performance

Grant Kester The Sound of Breaking Glass, Part II: Agonism and the Taming of Dissent

#30 December 2011

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial

Franco “Bifo” Berardi The Future After the End of the Economy

Hito Steyerl Art as Occupation: Claims for an Autonomy of Life

Claire Tancons Occupy Wall Street: Carnival Against Capital? Carnivalesque as Protest Sensibility

Grant Kester The Sound of Breaking Glass, Part I: Spontaneity and Consciousness in Revolutionary Theory

Paul Chan A Lawless Proposition

Jalal Toufic The Resurrected Brother of Mary and Martha: A Human Who Lived then Died!

Sotirios Bahtsetzis The Time That Remains, Part II: How to Repeat the Avant-Garde

#29 November 2011

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Preface

Boris Groys Introduction—Global Conceptualism Revisited

Ekaterina Degot Performing Objects, Narrating Installations: Moscow Conceptualism and the Rediscovery of the Art Object

Terry Smith One and Three Ideas: Conceptualism Before, During, and After Conceptual Art

Keti Chukhrov Soviet Material Culture and Socialist Ethics in Moscow Conceptualism

Anton Vidokle Art without Work?

Sarah Wilson Moscow Romantic Exceptionalism: The Suspension of Disbelief

Claire Bishop Zones of Indistinguishability: Collective Actions Group and Participatory Art

Jörg Heiser Moscow, Romantic, Conceptualism, and After

#28 October 2011

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial

Sotirios Bahtsetzis The Time That Remains, Part I: On Contemporary Nihilism

Jalal Toufic The Contemporary Is Still Forthcoming

Jan Verwoert World as Medium: On the Work of Stano Filko

Antke Engel Queer Temporalities and the Chronopolitics of Transtemporal Drag

Joshua Simon Neo-Materialism, Part Three: The Language of Commodities

Mona Mahall Eupalinos and the Duck: Conceptualism in Recent Architecture

Letters to the Editors: Responses to Jon Rich’s “The Blood of the Victim”

#27 September 2011

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial—“Alternative Economies”

Lawrence Liang Is it a Bird? A Plane? No, It’s a Magic Chair

Raqs Media Collective Planktons in the Sea: A Few Questions Regarding the Qualities of Time

Elizabeth A. Povinelli Routes/Worlds

Franco “Bifo” Berardi Time, Acceleration, and Violence

Paul Glover Anti-Monopoly Money

#26 June 2011

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial—“Artistic Thinking”

Hans Ulrich Obrist In Conversation with Julian Assange, Part II

Luis Camnitzer Museums and Universities

Michael Baers Inside the Box: Notes From Within the European Artistic Research Debate

Lars Bang Larsen Giraffe and Anti-Giraffe: Charles Fourier’s Artistic Thinking

Mary Walling Blackburn XOXO Insanity, Institution

Jon Rich The Blood of the Victim: Revolution in Syria and the Birth of the Image-Event

Ghalya Saadawi Post–Sharjah Biennial 10: Institutional Grease and Institutional Critique

#25 May 2011

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial

Diedrich Diederichsen Radicalism as Ego Ideal: Oedipus and Narcissus

Hans Ulrich Obrist In Conversation with Julian Assange, Part I

Suely Rolnik Avoiding False Problems: Politics of the Fluid, Hybrid, and Flexible

Martha Rosler Culture Class: Art, Creativity, Urbanism, Part III

#24 April 2011

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial

Franco “Bifo” Berardi I Want to Think: POST-U

Boris Groys Art and Money

Hu Fang Wittgenstein House

Precarious Workers Brigade Fragments Toward an Understanding of a Week that Changed Everything…

Dieter Roelstraete On Leaving the Building: Thoughts of the Outside

Simon Sheikh Positively Representation of Banking Revisited

Hito Steyerl In Free Fall: A Thought Experiment on Vertical Perspective

#23 March 2011

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial

Peter Friedl The Impossible Museum

Bruno Latour Some Experiments in Art and Politics

Mona Mahall Wolf and Vampire: The Border Between Technology and Culture

Lívia Páldi Back to the Future: Report from Hungary

Jon Rich Camels vs. Google: Revolutions Recreate the Center of the World

Suely Rolnik Deleuze, Schizoanalyst

Martha Rosler Culture Class: Art, Creativity, Urbanism, Part II

Joshua Simon Neo-Materialism, Part II: The Unreadymade

#22 January 2011

Paul Chan  and Sven Lütticken Idiot Wind: An Introduction

Claire Bishop Con-Demmed to the Bleakest of Futures: Report from the UK

Gavin Butt Being Boiled

Melanie Gilligan Visits from the Future

Sabeth Buchmann and Jens Kastner Snapshot, Austria: Class Struggle from Above Right

Tom Holert Birth of the Rebel Citizen in Germany

Hito Steyerl Right in Our Face

Renée Green Reflections: Seven Years Plus

Brian Holmes Total Corruption: Report from the USA

Gregg Bordowitz Eclipse

Paul Chan Progress as Regression

A Heteronomous Hobby: Report from the Netherlands

Wendelien van Oldenborgh Forged Alternative

Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen On the Turn Towards Liberal State Racism in Denmark

Peio Aguirre The State of Spain: Nationalism, Critical Regionalism, and Biennialization

Etel Adnan Enclosement

#21 December 2010

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial

Franco “Bifo” Berardi Exhaustion and Senile Utopia of the Coming European Insurrection

Ekaterina Degot A Letter from Donetsk: Art Amidst the Roses

Liam Gillick Contemporary art does not account for that which is taking place

Hans Ulrich Obrist In Conversation with Hakim Bey

Martha Rosler Culture Class: Art, Creativity, Urbanism, Part I

Hito Steyerl Politics of Art: Contemporary Art and the Transition to Post-Democracy

#20 November 2010

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial

Franco “Bifo” Berardi Cognitarian Subjectivation

Keti Chukhrov Towards the Space of the General: On Labor beyond Materiality and Immateriality

Joshua Simon Neo-Materialism, Part I: The Commodity and the Exhibition

Simon Sheikh Positively Protest Aesthetics Revisited

Nato Thompson Contractions of Time: On Social Practice from a Temporal Perspective

#19 October 2010

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial

Svetlana Boym The Off-Modern Mirror

Diedrich Diederichsen People of Intensity, People of Power: The Nietzsche Economy

Boris Groys Marx After Duchamp, or The Artist’s Two Bodies

Park Chan-Kyong On Sindoan: Some Scattered Views on Tradition and “The Sublime”

Jalal Toufic What is the Sum of Recurrently?

#18 September 2010

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial

Peter Friedl History in the Making

Marta Jecu Concepts Are Mental Images: The Work as Ruin

Hassan Khan In Defense of the Corrupt Intellectual

Gean Moreno and Ernesto Oroza Generic Objects

Hans Ulrich Obrist In Conversation with Antonio Negri

Letters to the Editors: Eleven Responses to Anton Vidokle’s “Art Without Artists?”

#17 June-August 2010

Marion von Osten Editorial—“In Search of the Postcapitalist Self”

An Architektur On the Commons: A Public Interview with Massimo De Angelis and Stavros Stavrides

Tom Holert Hidden Labor and the Delight of Otherness: Design and Post-Capitalist Politics

Natascha Sadr Haghighian What’s the Time, Mahagonny?

Jesko Fezer Design for a Post-Neoliberal City

Florian Zeyfang A Brief History of “Poor Man’s Expression”

Manuela Bojadžijev and Serhat Karakayalı Recuperating the Sideshows of Capitalism: The Autonomy of Migration Today

Isabell Lorey Becoming Common: Precarization as Political Constituting

Judith Hopf Contrat entre les hommes et l’ordinateur

Fahim Amir, Eva Egermann, Marion von Osten, and Peter Spillman What Shall We Do…?

Sebastian Lütgert Down and Out in All the Wrong Places (Berlin 2010)

Antke Engel Desire for/within Economic Transformation

#16 May 2010

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial

Paul Chan The Unthinkable Community

Diedrich Diederichsen Music—Immateriality—Value

Liam Gillick The Good of Work

Hu Fang Wu Yongfang, the Hunger Artist

Bilal Khbeiz Michael Jackson Died for No Reason (and the Vampire that is His Life)

Art and Thingness, Part III: The Heart of the Thing is the Thing We Don’t Know

Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez Innovative Forms of Archives, Part Two: IRWIN’s East Art Map and Tamás St. Auby’s Portable Intelligence Increase Museum

Dieter Roelstraete (Jena Revisited) Ten Tentative Tenets

Anton Vidokle Art Without Artists?

An Open Letter to Clifford Irving

#15 April 2010

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial

Boris Groys The Weak Universalism

Lars Bang Larsen Zombies of Immaterial Labor: The Modern Monster and the Death of Death

Sven Lütticken Art and Thingness, Part Two: Thingification

Gean Moreno Farewell to Function: Tactical Interiors

Hito Steyerl A Thing Like You and Me

#14 March 2010

Irit Rogoff “Education Actualized” – Editorial

Nora Sternfeld Unglamorous Tasks: What Can Education Learn from its Political Traditions?

Adrian Rifkin Artistic Education of the Public

Fred Moten and Stefano Harney Debt and Study

Dietrich Lemke Mourning Bologna

Nicolas Siepen and Åsa Sonjasdotter Learning by Doing: Reflections on Setting Up a New Art Academy

Irit Rogoff FREE

Susanne Lang and Darius James Magic Hat – Property of the People

Bernard Stiegler and Irit Rogoff Transindividuation

Isabelle Bruno and Christopher Newfield Can the Cognitariat Speak?

Florian Schneider (Extended) Footnotes On Education

#13 February 2010

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial

Bernardo Ortiz Campo Criticism and Experience

Adam Kleinman Tempus Edax Rerum?

Élisabeth Lebovici The Death of the Audience: A Conversation with Pierre Bal-Blanc

Art and Thingness, Part I: Breton’s Ball and Duchamp’s Carrot

Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez Innovative Forms of Archives, Part One: Exhibitions, Events, Books, Museums, and Lia Perjovschi’s Contemporary Art Archive

Monika Szewczyk Negation Notes (while working on an exhibition with Allan Sekula featuring This Ain’t China: A Photonovel)

#12 January 2010

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle What is Contemporary Art? Issue Two

Hal Foster Contemporary Extracts

Cuauhtémoc Medina Contemp(t)orary: Eleven Theses

Hans Ulrich Obrist Manifestos for the Future

Raqs Media Collective Now and Elsewhere

Martha Rosler Take the Money and Run? Can Political and Socio-critical Art “Survive”?

Jan Verwoert Standing on the Gates of Hell, My Services Are Found Wanting

#11 December 2009

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle What is Contemporary Art? Issue One

Zdenka Badovinac Contemporaneity as Points of Connection

Boris Groys Comrades of Time

Jörg Heiser Torture and Remedy: The End of -isms and the Beginning Hegemony of the Impure

Hu Fang New Species of Spaces

Carol Yinghua Lu Back to Contemporary: One Contemporary Ambition, Many Worlds

Dieter Roelstraete What is Not Contemporary Art?: The View from Jena

#10 November 2009

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial

Sherif El-Azma The Psychogeography of Loose Associations

Luis Camnitzer ALPHABETIZATION, Part II: Hegemonic Language and Arbitrary Order

Paul Chan What Art Is and Where it Belongs

Celine Condorelli Life Always Escapes

Peter Friedl Secret Modernity

Hans Ulrich Obrist Ever Spero

Hito Steyerl In Defense of the Poor Image

#9 October 2009

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial

François Bucher Subjects of the American Moon: From Studio as Reality to Reality as Studio

Luis Camnitzer ALPHABETIZATION, Part I: Protocol and Proficiency

Jill Magid Becoming Tarden — Prologue

Nina Möntmann (Under)Privileged Spaces: On Martha Rosler’s “If You Lived Here…”

Simon Sheikh Positively Trojan Horses Revisited

#8 September 2009

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial

Anselm Franke Across the Rationalist Veil

Barbad Golshiri For They Know What They Do Know

Bilal Khbeiz Modernity’s Obsession with Systems of Preservation

Sven Lütticken Viewing Copies: On the Mobility of Moving Images

Marion von Osten Irene ist Viele! Or What We Call “Productive” Forces

#7 June-August 2009

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial

Michael Baers Concerning Matters to be Left for a Later Date, Part 4 of 4 (Guest-Starring Annika Eriksson)

Boris Groys Self-Design and Aesthetic Responsibility

Raqs Media Collective Earthworms Dancing: Notes for a Biennial in Slow Motion

Omnia El Shakry Artistic Sovereignty in the Shadow of Post-Socialism: Egypt’s 20th Annual Youth Salon

Hito Steyerl Is a Museum a Factory?

Monika Szewczyk Art of Conversation, Part II

Brian Kuan Wood A Universalism for Everyone

Pauline J. Yao A Game Played Without Rules Has No Losers

#6 May 2009

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial

Zdenka Badovinac What Will the Next Revolution Be Like?

Michael Baers Concerning Matters to be Left for a Later Date, Part 3 of 4 (Guest-Starring Alexandra Croitoru and Stefan Tiron)

Gean Moreno and Ernesto Oroza Learning from Little Haiti

Hans Ulrich Obrist In Conversation with Raoul Vaneigem

Marion von Osten Architecture Without Architects—Another Anarchist Approach

Dieter Roelstraete After the Historiographic Turn: Current Findings

Mariana Silva and Pedro Neves Marques The Escape Route’s Design: Assessment of the Impact of Current Aesthetics on History and a Comparative Reading Based on an Example Close to the City o

#5 April 2009

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial

Michael Baers Concerning Matters to be Left for a Later Date, Part 2 of 4 (Guest-Starring Pia Rönicke)

Natascha Sadr Haghighian Sleepwalking in a Dialectical Picture Puzzle, Part 2: A Conversation with Thomas Keenan

Carol Yinghua Lu Don’t Stop: Doing Art Potluck Style

Metahaven Europe Sans: History, Politics, and Protocol in the EU Image

Simon Sheikh Positively Counter-Publics Revisited

Sean Snyder Disobedience in Byelorussia: Self-Interrogation on “Research-Based Art”

#4 March 2009

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial

Michael Baers Concerning Matters to be Left for a Later Date, Part 1 of 4

Elena Filipovic A Museum That is Not

Boris Groys Religion in the Age of Digital Reproduction

Silvia Kolbowski Two in One

Dieter Lesage The Academy is Back: On Education, the Bologna Process, and the Doctorate in the Arts

Dieter Roelstraete The Way of the Shovel: On the Archeological Imaginary in Art

#3 February 2009

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial

Luis Camnitzer Art and Literacy

Liam Gillick Maybe it would be better if we worked in groups of three? Part 2 of 2: The Experimental Factory

Natascha Sadr Haghighian Sleepwalking in a Dialectical Picture Puzzle, Part 1: A Conversation with Avery Gordon

Tom Holert Art in the Knowledge-based Polis

Bilal Khbeiz Gaza–Beirut–Tel Aviv: In Praise of Selfishness and Opportunism

Simon Sheikh Positively White Cube Revisited

Monika Szewczyk Art of Conversation, Part I

#2 January 2009

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial

Daniel Birnbaum and Anders Olsson An Interview with Jacques Derrida on the Limits of Digestion

Liam Gillick Maybe it would be better if we worked in groups of three? Part 1 of 2: The Discursive

Boris Groys Politics of Installation

Marina Gržinić Drawing a Border (Reartikulacija, Part 3 of 3)

Hassan Khan RANT

Silvia Kolbowski “When Even Good News Worsens a Panic”

#1 December 2008

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial

Staš Kleindienst Between Resistance and Commodity (Reartikulacija, Part 2 of 3)

Dieter Lesage The Next Documenta Shouldn’t Be in Kassel

Carol Yinghua Lu Accidental Conceptualism

Metahaven Brand States: Postmodern Power, Democratic Pluralism, and Design

Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez Blame It on Gorbachev: The Sources of Inspiration and Crucial Turning Points of Inke Arns

Simon Sheikh Positively East Village Revisited: The Problem with Puerilism

Jan Verwoert The Boss: On the Unresolved Question of Authority in Joseph Beuys’ Oeuvre and Public Image

Pelin Tan Beneath Our Skin

Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Editorial

Omer Fast Take a Deep Breath

Boris Groys The Obligation to Self-Design

Bilal Khbeiz Los Angeles: The Invention of Public Weather

Sebastjan Leban Conditioned Contemporaneity (Reartikulacija, Part 1 of 3)

Marjetica Potrč New Territories in Acre and Why They Matter

Raqs Media Collective Stammer, Mumble, Sweat, Scrawl, and Tic

Irit Rogoff Turning

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