11 documents
Half-Life
Yours, Sincerely
Raqs Media Collective
Architecture Essay
Posted: December 9, 2022
Category
Technology
Subjects
Climate change, Southeast Asia, Caucasus & Central Asia, Everyday Life, Militarization, Geology, Nuclear War
e-flux Film
Category
Nature & Ecology
Subjects
Extractivism, Environment, Outer Space, Video Art
e-flux Film
Category
Labor & Work
Subjects
Video Art
# 95
Workers and Robots Enter a Factory Canteen
Words by Raqs Media Collective / Illustrations by Freddy Carrasco
“Sometimes, when I see you face to face, I am puzzled as to whether I am your ancestor or your inheritor … ”
e-flux Journal
Posted: November 15, 2018
Category
Labor & Work, Literature
Subjects
Automation, Algorithms
Superhumanity
As if by Design
Raqs Media Collective
Architecture Essay
Posted: October 28, 2016
Category
Design
Subjects
Energy, Mathematics, Time, Death, Biology
# 65
The Social Commons: Citizens in the Shade, Aliens in the Sun
Raqs Media Collective
What whispered confidences and secrets may citizen and alien trade as they make their moves? What new things may be afoot in their wake? In 1762, when Jean-Jacques Rousseau added a conditional “but” after the phrase “man is born free” in The Social Contract, was he implying that there could be hidden costs to birth in the human species?
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 1, 2015
Category
Humanism
Subjects
The Commons
# 65
A Knot Untied in Two Parts
Raqs Media Collective
Negative Negation
It is said that one should always begin with the simplest questions.
Why did Marx observe that corporations (i.e., stock companies) were the negative negation of capital?
Everything that follows is an attempt to address this question.
The capitalist stock companies, as much as the co-operative factories, should be considered as transitional forms from the capitalist mode of production to the associated one, with the only distinction that the…
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 1, 2015
Category
Marxism , Capitalism, Labor & Work
Subjects
Money & Finance, Class
# 56
Is the World Sleeping, Sleepless, or Awake or Dreaming?
Raqs Media Collective
Another conversation threw up a fascinating image: “During our regular night shifts, the general manager used to be abrasive with any worker he saw dozing. He used to take punitive action against them. One night, one hundred and eight of us went to sleep, all together, on the shop floor. Managers, one after the other, who came to check on us, saw us all sleeping in one place, and returned quietly. We carried on like this for three nights. They didn’t misbehave with us, didn’t take any…
e-flux Journal
Posted: June 1, 2014
Category
Nationalism, Labor & Work
Subjects
Ultranationalism, Indian Subcontinent, Sleep & Dreams
# 12
Now and Elsewhere
Raqs Media Collective
The Problem and the Provocation
We would like to begin by taking a sentence from the formulation of the problem that set the ball rolling for this lecture series. In speaking of the “hesitation in developing any kind of comprehensive strategy” for understanding precisely what it is that we call contemporary art today (in the wake of the last twenty years of contemporary art activity), the introduction to the series speaks of its having “assumed a fully mature form—and yet it still…
e-flux Journal
Posted: January 1, 2010
Category
Film, Contemporary Art
Subjects
Contemporaneity, Memory
# 07
Earthworms Dancing: Notes for a Biennial in Slow Motion
Raqs Media Collective
The earthworms take their time; let’s take ours.
On Recovery and Anticipation
For any calendrical rite to be what it is, the moments before and after it can only make sense in terms of anticipation and recovery. In the case of events characterized by repetitive cyclical periodicity, recovery is always also anticipation, and the moment after the event is also the moment before the event.
An event is a plea against the equivalence of all moments vis-à-vis each other;…
e-flux Journal
Posted: June 1, 2009
Category
Contemporary Art
Subjects
Contemporaneity, Temporality, Biennials