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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.

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Julieta Aranda
Brian Kuan Wood
Anton Vidokle

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Kaye Cain-Nielsen

Art Director

Mariana Silva

Managing & Copy Editor

Mike Andrews

Associate Editor

Andreas Petrossiants

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Elvia Wilk

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Simone White

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#117 April 2021
McKenzie Wark Editorial
Isabel Sandoval Seeing as the Other
Jules Gill-Peterson The Miseducation of a French Feminist
Rosza Daniel Lang/Levitsky Our Own Words: Fem & Trans, Past & Future
Bishakh Som The Tourist
Sultana Isham Noise Is the Nigga of Sound
Tamarra interviewed by Riksa Afiaty To Build a Better Workspace for Us
Kira Xonorika Post-genitalist Fantasies / Temporalities of Latin American Trans Art
Maxi Wallenhorst Like a Real Veil, Like a Bad Analogy: Dissociative Style and Trans Aesthetics
Eva Hayward Painted Camera, “Her”
McKenzie Wark The Cis Gaze and Its Others (for Shola)
Emily Alison Zhou Digging and Sinking and Drifting: Allison Parrish’s Machine Poetics
Comrade Josephine (embodied by Luce deLire) Full Queerocracy Now!: Pink Totaliterianism and the Industrialization of Libidinal Agriculture
#116 March 2021
Editors Editorial
Fred Moten, Stefano Harney, and Stevphen Shukaitis Refusing Completion: A Conversation
Tongo Eisen-Martin Three Poems
Erica Hunt Excerpts from A Decolonized Memoir
Nora Treatbaby Three Poems
Franco “Bifo” Berardi Freedom and Potency
Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner Monster as Medium: Experiments in Perception in Early Modern Science and Film
Tyler Coburn Counterfactuals
Soo Hwan Kim A Cultural Geneology of the Glass House
Maria Lind Situating the Curatorial
Boris Groys Discourses of Distrust: Conspiracy Theories and the Critique of Ideology
#115 February 2021
Editors Editorial
Fahim Amir Cloudy Swords
Jace Clayton That Singing Crowd
Ariel Goldberg and Yazan Khalili We Stopped Taking Photos
Sven Lütticken Divergent States of Emergence: Remarks on Potential Possibilities, Against All Odds
Sonali Gupta and H. Bolin Virality: Against a Standard Unit of Life
Xenia Benivolski You Can’t Trust Music
Nikolay Smirnov Elements of Immanentism in Russia: Double Belief, Cosmism, and Marx
J.-P. Caron On Constitutive Dissociations as a Means of World-Unmaking: Henry Flynt and Generative Aesthetics Redefined
Imogen Stidworthy Detours
#114 December 2020
Martin Guinard, Bruno Latour, Ping Lin, and e-flux journal editors Editorial: You and I Don’t Live on the Same Planet
Dipesh Chakrabarty World-Making, “Mass” Poverty, and the Problem of Scale
Martin Guinard, Eva Lin, and Bruno Latour Coping with Planetary Wars
John Tresch Cosmic Terrains (of the Sun King, Son of Heaven, and Sovereign of the Seas)
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and Déborah Danowski The Past Is Yet to Come
Chun-Mei Chuang Politics of Orbits: Will We Meet Halfway?
Hamedine Kane, Stéphane Verlet-Bottéro, Olivia Anani, and Lou Mo We Are the Ambassadors of the Blurred Mirages of Lands that Never Fully Materialized (About the School of Mutants)
Isabelle Stengers We Are Divided
Nadia Yala Kisukidi Geopolitics of the Diaspora
Yuk Hui For a Planetary Thinking
Achille Mbembe Meditation on the Second Creation
Pierre Charbonnier For an Ecological Realpolitik
Paul B. Preciado The Hot War
Adam Tooze After Escape: The New Climate Power Politics
Erika Balsom Shoreline Movements
#113 November 2020
Editors Editorial
Nika Dubrovsky and David Graeber Another Art World, Part 3: Policing and Symbolic Order
Hou Hanru and Ou Ning Test of Our Vision: A Conversation
Trevor Paglen and Alessandra Franetovich Impossible Objects: A Conversation
Jumana Manna Where Nature Ends and Settlements Begin
Steve Lyons and Jason Jones for Not An Alternative The Language in Common
iLiana Fokianaki The Bureau of Care: Introductory Notes on the Care-less and Care-full
Aaron Schuster Enjoy Your Security: On Kafka’s “The Burrow”
Simon Sheikh It’s After the End of the World: A Zombie Heaven?
#112 October 2020
Julieta Aranda, Chus Martínez, and Markus Reymann Editorial
John Akomfrah The Sea Is About Us
Mary Walling Blackburn Swim to Us
Elizabeth A. Povinelli The Ancestral Present of Oceanic Illusions: Connected and Differentiated in Late Toxic Liberalism
Latai Taumoepeau and Taloi Havini The Last Resort: A Conversation
Chus Martínez Gathering Sea I Am!
Greg Dvorak S/pacific Islands: Some Reflections on Identity and Art in Contemporary Oceania
Ben Woodard Slime on a Wire
Julieta Aranda and Eben Kirksey Toward a Glossary of the Oceanic Undead: A(mphibious) through F(utures)
#111 September 2020
Editors Editorial
Nicholas Mirzoeff For David, with Love
Yazan Khalili and Marwa Arsanios What We Talk about When We Talk about Crisis: A Conversation, Part 1
Franco “Bifo” Berardi The American Abyss
Sophie Lewis With-Women: Grieving in Capitalist Time
Serubiri Moses A Useful Landscape
Iman Issa Proxies, with a Life of Their Own
Ben Ware Nothing but the End to Come? Extinction Fragments
Terry Smith Marking Places, Cross-Hatching Worlds: The Yirrkala Panels
Boris Groys Trotsky, or Metamorphoses of Engagement
#110 June 2020
Editors Editorial
Charles Mudede White Knee, Black Neck
Renee Gladman The Order of Time
Ho Rui An Technocratic Magic in the Contagion Economy
Martha Rosler and Josh Neufeld Food Riot? Food Riot!
Zdenka Badovinac Interdependence, or, Secrecy as the Last Universal Right
Anton Vidokle and Irmgard Emmelhainz God-Building as a Work of Art: Cosmist Aesthetics
Ailton Krenak and Maurício Meirelles Our Worlds Are at War
Kai Heron and Jodi Dean Revolution or Ruin
Keti Chukhrov Evil, Surplus, Power: The Three Media of Art
Andreas Petrossiants Inside and Out: The Edges to Critique
Sven Lütticken Performing Preformations: Elements for a Historical Formalism
Andris Brinkmanis Constellation Asja
Yuk Hui In Memory of Bernard
#109 May 2020
Tom Holert, Doreen Mende, and Editors Editorial: “Navigation Beyond Vision, Issue Two”
Kodwo Eshun Recursion, Interrupted
Mariana Silva Mining the Deep Sea
Maïté Chénière Sonic S.cape
Ramon Amaro and Murad Khan Towards Black Individuation and a Calculus of Variations
Doreen Mende The Code of Touch: Navigating Beyond Control, or, Towards Scalability and Sociability
Brian Kuan Wood Insurgency of Life
Laura Lo Presti Like a Map Over Troubled Water: (Un)mapping the Mediterranean Sea’s Terraqueous Necropolitics
#108 April 2020
Editors Editorial
Yuk Hui One Hundred Years of Crisis
Boris Groys Anti-philosophy and the Politics of Recognition
Xiaoyu Weng An Informal and Incomplete Journey
Maria Lind What Is Wrong with My Nose: From Gogol and Freud to Goldin+Senneby (via Haraway)
Jonas Staal Climate Propagandas
María Iñigo Clavo Traces, Signs, and Symptoms of the Untranslatable
Daniel Muzyczuk Alienated Accumulations: Does Time-Based Media Belong in the Museum?
Franco “Bifo” Berardi and Massimiliano Geraci Killing Swarm, Part 3
Shumon Basar and Hans Ulrich Obrist Futuro, Presente, Passato: Remembering Germano Celant (1940–2020)
#107 March 2020
Editors Editorial
Nikolay Smirnov Shaman, Schismatic, Necromancer: Religious Libertarians in Russia
iLiana Fokianaki Narcissistic Authoritarian Statism, Part 2: Slow/Fast Violence
Sam Richardson A Saintly Curse: On Gender, Sainthood, and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Serubiri Moses Violent Dreaming
Oleksiy Radynski Is Data the New Gas?
Mostafa Heddaya and Rijin Sahakian Recolonize This Place
Luis Camnitzer Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes
McKenzie Wark Reality Cabaret: On Juliana Huxtable
#106 February 2020
Editors Editorial
Anton Vidokle Art and Sovereignty
Boris Groys The Museum as a Cradle of Revolution
New Red Order Never Settle: Conscripted
Charles Mudede Which Angel of Death Appears in Afrofuturist Visions of Hi-Tech Black Societies?
Keller Easterling Medium Design
Franco “Bifo” Berardi Desire, Pleasure, Senility, and Evolution
Irmgard Emmelhainz Can We Share a World Beyond Representation?
Liam Gillick Imagine a Country That Hated Art
Mary Walling Blackburn From the Gnome’s Genome to Trash DNA: Technologies of Ancestor Phantasy for a Final Generation
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme At Those Terrifying Frontiers Where the Existence and Disappearance of People Fade into Each Other
#105 December 2019
Tina M. Campt The Loophole of Retreat—An Invitation
Saidiya Hartman Extended Notes on the Riot
Simone Leigh Images from “Loophole of Retreat”
Simone White bound together by this matter
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts The Music of the Spheres
Rizvana Bradley A Gathering of Aporetic Form
Dionne Brand Maps
Zakiyyah Iman Jackson Suspended Munition: Mereology, Morphology, and the Mammary Biopolitics of Transmission in Simone Leigh’s Trophallaxis
Christina Sharpe Beauty Is a Method
Vanessa Agard-Jones Selvage/Obsidian: A Response
Grada Kilomba Still images from ILLUSIONS Vol. II, OEDIPUS
Françoise Vergès Politics of Marooning and Radical Disobedience
Denise Ferreira da Silva How
Okwui Okpokwasili of wishing and superheroes
Lorraine O’Grady Interstice
Annette Lane Harrison Richter Reflections on Black Sisterhood and the United Order of Tents
Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich Still images from Spit on the Broom
Asiya Wadud the order was in the hour of worship
#104 November 2019
Editors Editorial
Boris Groys The Cold War between the Medium and the Message: Western Modernism vs. Socialist Realism
Soo Hwan Kim Sergei Tretyakov Revisited: The Cases of Walter Benjamin and Hito Steyerl
Dena Yago The Wall Stays in the Picture: Destination Murals in Los Angeles
T. J. Demos Climate Control: From Emergency to Emergence
Nika Dubrovsky and David Graeber Another Art World, Part 2: Utopia of Freedom as a Market Value
Ariella Aïsha Azoulay Imagine Going on Strike: Museum Workers and Historians
Metahaven Sleep Walks the Street, Part 2
Franco “Bifo” Berardi and Massimiliano Geraci Killing Swarm, Part 2
#103 October 2019
Editors Editorial
Metahaven Sleep Walks the Street, Part 1
Sven Lütticken Toward a Terrestrial
Elvia Wilk Ask Before You Bite
iLiana Fokianaki Narcissistic Authoritarian Statism, Part 1: The Eso and Exo Axis of Contemporary Forms of Power
Aaron Schuster Communist Ninotchka
Claire Tancons Portrait of the Artist as a Dramatist: A Conversation with Peter Friedl
Jörg Heiser The Great Escape: Adrian Piper’s Memoir on Why She Went into Exile
Cuauhtémoc Medina A Southerly Gale: Francisco Toledo, 1940–2019
#102 September 2019
Editors Editorial
Franco “Bifo” Berardi and Massimiliano Geraci Killing Swarm, Part 1
Jonas Staal Comrades in Deep Future
Teresa Castro The Mediated Plant
McKenzie Wark Femme as in Fuck You
Samer Frangie The Little White Dog and the Postwar Promise
Nika Dubrovsky and David Graeber Another Art World, Part 1: Art Communism and Artificial Scarcity
Claire Fontaine The Visitor as a Commercial Partner: Notes on the 58th Venice Biennale
Geert Lovink Cybernetics for the Twenty-First Century: An Interview with Philosopher Yuk Hui
#101 June 2019
Editors Editorial: “Navigation Beyond Vision, Issue One”
Jennifer Gabrys Ocean Sensing and Navigating the End of this World
Patricia Reed Orientation in a Big World: On the Necessity of Horizonless Perspectives
Matteo Pasquinelli Three Thousand Years of Algorithmic Rituals: The Emergence of AI from the Computation of Space
Nikolay Smirnov Meta-geography and the Navigation of Space
Oraib Toukan Toward a More Navigable Field
Tom Holert Ships in Doubt and the Totality of Possible Events
James Bridle Failing to Distinguish between a Tractor Trailer and the Bright White Sky
#100 May 2019
Editors Editorial
Liam Gillick We Lived and Thought Like Pigs: Gilles Châtelet’s Devastating Prescience
Luis Camnitzer Where is the Genie?
Koichiro Osaka The Imperial Ghost in the Neoliberal Machine (Figuring the CIA)
Françoise Vergès Capitalocene, Waste, Race, and Gender
Daniel R. Quiles Railways Are the Future: ABTE Against Neoliberalism
Oxana Timofeeva What Lenin Teaches Us About Witchcraft
Franco “Bifo” Berardi Game Over
#99 April 2019
Editors Editorial
Christian Nyampeta “In the Black Color of the Night”: Theology and Philosophy in Exile
Alessandra Franetovich Cosmic Thoughts: The Paradigm of Space in Moscow Conceptualism
Pedro Neves Marques Parallel Futures: One or Many Dystopias?
Kasia Wolinska and Frida Sandström The Future Body at Work
Sophie Lewis Full Surrogacy Now
Noel W Anderson Echoes from the Hole: Doubling Darkness Is Most Dark
Irmgard Emmelhainz Decolonial Love
#98 March 2019
Editors Editorial
Franco “Bifo” Berardi (Sensitive) Consciousness and Time: Against the Transhumanist Utopia
Alina Popa Art after Cantemir
T. J. Demos The Agency of Fire: Burning Aesthetics
Tony Wood Intrusions: Or, The Golden Age Is Not in Us
Tyler Coburn Ergonomic Futures
Ahmet Öğüt From Self-Design to Algorithmic-Design
Klara Kemp-Welch NET: An Open Proposition
Hito Steyerl, Coco Fusco, and Supercommunity Remembering Okwui Enwezor
#97 February 2019
Editors Editorial
Günther Anders Apocalypse without Kingdom
Khaled Saghieh 1990s Beirut: Al-Mulhaq, Memory, and the Defeat
Nikolay Smirnov Left-Wing Eurasianism and Postcolonial Theory
Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic Non-Aligned Extinctions: Slavery, Neo-Orientalism, and Queerness
Kathryn Yusoff White Utopia/Black Inferno: Life on a Geologic Spike
Yazan Khalili Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Noise
Kristen Alvanson XYZT
#96 January 2019
Editors Editorial
Yuk Hui What Begins After the End of the Enlightenment?
Oraib Toukan Cruel Images
Tom Holert Epistemic Violence and the Careful Photograph
Sven Lütticken Shattered Matter, Transformed Forms: Notes on Nuclear Aesthetics, Part 2
Xiao Liu Information Fantasies
Joan Kee Nobody Owns Me
Irmgard Emmelhainz Shattering and Healing
#95 WONDERFLUX
Editors WONDERFLUX: a decade of e-flux journal
Liam Gillick What’s a Mirror For?
Reza Negarestani
Keith Tilford Chronosis: Exordium
Words by Keller Easterling
Illustrations by Meijia Xu If You Are Lucky
Words by Hu Fang
Illustrations by Mojo Wang Faceless Man
Words by Franco “Bifo” Berardi
Illustrations by Andrew Alexander The End of Prophecy
Words by Elizabeth A. Povinelli
Illustrations by Clara Bessijelle Johansson Stubborn
Words by Raqs Media Collective
Illustrations by Freddy Carrasco Workers and Robots Enter a Factory Canteen
Editors WONDERFLUX: the next decade
#94 October 2018
Editorial
Beatriz E. Balanta and Mary Walling Blackburn Sticky Notes, Part B (4–17)
Jonas Staal Propaganda (Art) Struggle
Natasha Ginwala Untaming Restraint and the Deferred Apology
Sven Lütticken Shattered Matter, Transformed Forms: Notes on Nuclear Aesthetics, Part 1
T. J. Demos To Save a World: Geoengineering, Conflictual Futurisms, and the Unthinkable
Ariel Goldberg Incomplete Messengers: Notes on Heavy Equipment
Boris Groys Curating in the Post-Internet Age
#93 September 2018
Julieta Aranda and Kaye Cain-Nielsen Editorial
Nisi Shawl New Action
Denise Ferreira da Silva In the Raw
Filipa Ramos The Company One Keeps: Laptops, Lap Dances, Lapdogs
Natalya Serkova World Wide Gold
Marwa Arsanios Who’s Afraid of Ideology? Ecofeminist Practices Between Internationalism and Globalism
Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez Transforming Whiteness in Art Institutions
Doreen Mende The Undutiful Daughter’s Concept of Archival Metabolism
McKenzie Wark Wild Gone Girls
Maria Lind Soon
#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
Editors Editorial
Jonathan Beller The Fourth Determination
Luciana Parisi Reprogramming Decisionism
Brian Holmes Driving the Golden Spike
Aleksandra Shatskikh Inscribed Vandalism: The Black Square at One Hundred
Noemi Smolik The Russian Avant-Garde: A Projection Screen for Modern Utopian Thinking?
Timothy Morton Subscendence
Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez For Slow Institutions
Lorenza Pignatti Experiments in Eternity: Erkki Kurenniemi
McKenzie Wark My Collectible Ass
#84 September 2017
Editors Editorial
Emily Apter Armed Response: Translation as Judicial Hearing
Boris Groys Trump’s America: Playing the Victim
Houria Bouteldja We, Indigenous Women
Rob Goyanes A Palace of Unsaids
Oxana Timofeeva Ultra-Black: Towards a Materialist Theory of Oil
Claire Fontaine Chorus Anonymous: Voices from Documenta 14
Rijin Sahakian What We Are Fighting For
Francesca Hughes Truth Is in the Tower
Jacob Stewart-Halevy We Have Never Been Post-Industrial
#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
Franco “Bifo” Berardi The Second Coming
#82 May 2017
Editors Editorial
Boris Groys Art, Technology, and Humanism
Oleksiy Radynski The Great Accelerator
Jasper Bernes The Poetry of Feedback
Gilbert Simondon The Genesis of Technicity
Arseny Zhilyaev Tracing Avant-Garde Museology
Dena Yago On Ketamine and Added Value
Irmgard Emmelhainz Fog or Smoke? Colonial Blindness and the Closure of Representation
Hamed Yousefi ART+ART: The Avant-Garde in the Streets
Anton Vidokle and Hito Steyerl Cosmic Catwalk and the Production of Time
#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 M. 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 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
Editors Editorial
Maurizio Lazzarato and Éric Alliez To Our Enemies
Amelia Groom Permanent Collection
Liam Gillick A Building on Fifth Avenue
Kirsty Robertson Plastiglomerate
Elizabeth A. Povinelli Geontologies: The Figures and the Tactics
Franco “Bifo” Berardi The Coming ’17
Geert Lovink and Yuk Hui Digital Objects and Metadata Schemes
Étienne Balibar A Hyperbolic Proposition
Stephen Squibb This Machine Builds Fascists: Nationalism as Mode of Distribution
#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
Vivian Ziherl 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
Carol Yinghua Lu 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 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
Sven Lütticken 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 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
Raqs Media Collective The Social Commons: Citizens in the Shade, Aliens in the Sun
Coco Fusco Cuba: The Fading of a Subcontinental Dream
Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle Closing Editorial
Raqs Media Collective A Knot Untied in Two Parts
Antonio Negri Notes on the Abstract Strike
Wietske Maas The Corruption of the Eye: On Photogenesis and Self-Growing Images
McKenzie Wark The Vectoralist Class
Emily Segal Mercury Retrograde
Giuliana Bruno Surface Encounters
Hassan Khan and Natasha Ginwala Soaking in the Daily Curses: A Conversation
Maria Lind Made to Fit, or The Gathering of the Balloons
Marisol de la Cadena Uncommoning Nature
Susanne von Falkenhausen Self-Identity is a Bad Visual System
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)
Guy Mannes-Abbott Laboring One to Seven (Island of Terror)
Metahaven Eating Glass: The New Propaganda
Ilya Budraitskis The Extraordinary Adventures of Guy Fawkes
Sean Dockray and Lawrence Liang Sharing Instinct: An Annotation of the Social Contract Through Shadow Libraries
Denise Ferreira da Silva Reading Art as Confrontation
Tom Holert Blackout City
Hiwa K A Few Notes from an Extellectual
Naeem Mohaiemen Traitors, a Mutable Lexicon
Rupali Gupte and Prasad Shetty It Takes so Much for a City to Happen
Ben Woodard Less World to be Ourselves: A Note on Postapocalyptic Simplification
Julieta Aranda and Brian Kuan Wood Give Back to Your Alma Mater!
Aleksandr Svyatogor Our Affirmations
Coco Fusco The Revolution Is Dead—But Long Lives the State!
Rory Rowan Extinction as Usual?: Geo-Social Futures and Left Optimism
Arjuna Neuman Heart of Brightness
Charles Stankievech Supercritical Decay
Anton Vidokle THE COMMUNIST REVOLUTION WAS CAUSED BY THE SUN: A PARTIAL SCRIPT FOR A SHORT FILM
Sophia Al-Maria TBH IDK FTW
Aaron Schuster You Can’t Ask Everyone to Behave Ethically Just Like That
Oleksiy Radynski The Arts for the Global Conflict: A 2115 Report
Jussi Parikka The Alchemic Digital, The Planetary Elemental
Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo Castroneirics: A Dreamitaph for Fidel (The Exquisite Cadaver)
Showkat Kathjoo The Memory of a Deluge and the Surface of Water
Carolyn L. Kane Plastic Shine: From Prosaic Miracle to Retrograde Sublime
Nikolai Fedorov The Museum, Its Meaning and Mission
Emre Hüner and Pelin Tan The Forms of Non-Belonging
Franco “Bifo” Berardi The Message of Francis
Liu Ding and Carol Yinghua Lu Crimes Without a Scene: Qian Weikang and the New Measurement Group
Keti Chukhrov Why Preserve the Name “Human”?
Jonas Staal Empire and Its Double: The Many Pavilions of the Islamic State
Uzma Z. Rizvi Theorizing Deposition: Transitional Stratigraphy, Disruptive Layers, and the Future
Déborah Danowski and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro Is There Any World to Come?
Kader Attia The Loop
Federico Campagna After Nihilism, After Technic: Sketches for a New Philosophical Architecture
Anne Anlin Cheng and Tom Holert Do You See It? Well, It Doesn’t See You!
Yin-Ju Chen and James T. Hong The Fruitarian Dilemma: A Dialogue about Kissing Ass, Corruption, and Compromise
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Theorems of Life (As an Addendum and Clarification on Monism)
Sarnath Banerjee The Idle Monologue of an Unconvinced Surveyor
Jon Rich ISIS and the CIA Vie for the Claim to Divinity
Global Ultra Luxury Faction (G.U.L.F.) On Direct Action: An Address to Cultural Workers
Tavi Meraud Field Guide to Skirmology: Handbook for the Skirmonaut
Steven Shaviro Arsenic Dreams
David Hodge and Hamed Yousefi Provincialism Perfected: Global Contemporary Art and Uneven Development
Liam Gillick Weapons Grade Pig Work
Leela Gandhi and Bhrigupati Singh Botched Enlightenment: A Conversation
Aleksandr Bogdanov Immortality Day
Jean-Luc Nancy Oh the Animals of Language
Adam Kleinman ARGUS is: An Almost Cock and Bull Story
Hu Fang Why We Look at Plants, in a Corrupted World
Gertrude Stein The Making of Americans
DIS Styles and Customs in the 2020s
Lesley Green The Changing of the Gods of Reason: Cecil John Rhodes, Karoo Fracking, and the Decolonizing of the Anthropocene
Dr. Beatriz Balanta, Benj Gerdes , Jennifer Hayashida, Christopher Myers , Brian Kuan Wood, and Mary Walling Blackburn Child as Material
Ernesto Oroza and Gean Moreno La Ville Souvenir
Matteo Pasquinelli On Solar Databases and the Exogenesis of Light
Ala Younis Men of Bronze, Homes of Concrete
Mohammad Salemy Art After the Machines
Adrian Lahoud Nomos and Cosmos
Karl Holmqvist GORILLAZ GRRLZ
Jan Verwoert Torn Together
Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.) Online Digital Artwork and the Status of the “Based-In” Artist
Arseny Zhilyaev Second Advents: On the Issue of Planning in Contemporary Art
Pedro Neves Marques Look Above, the Sky is Falling: Humanity Before and After the End of the World
Douglas Coupland Shiny
Elizabeth A. Povinelli Windjarrameru, The Stealing C*nts
Benjamin H. Bratton On Deprofessionalizing Surgery
Ahmet Öğüt Things Based on Real-Life Events
Luis Camnitzer Thinking About Art Thinking
Nina Power Construction with Steel and Technology
Jimmie Durham Apocalypsis, or The Dragon in Her Cave
Julieta Aranda and Ana Teixeira Pinto Turk, Toaster, Task Rabbit
Harun Farocki On the Documentary
Boris Groys Cosmic Anxiety: The Russian Case
Ted Chiang and Allora & Calzadilla The Great Silence
Martha Rosler The Art of Cooking: A Dialogue Between Julia Child and Craig Claiborne
Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle SUPERCOMMUNITY (editorial)
#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 …
Sven Lütticken 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
Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Önder Özengi, and Pelin Tan 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
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 Martínez 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
Sven Lütticken 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”
Paul 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
Khalil Rabah 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”
Sven Lütticken 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
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
Sven Lütticken 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)
Sven Lütticken 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
Sven Lütticken 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
Céline 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
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
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