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One to What? Cultural Technique and Model Making
Sylvia Lavin
Architecture Essay
Posted: November 8, 2022
Category
Architecture, Ideology
Subjects
Epistemology, Knowledge Production, Networks, Worldbuilding, Representation
Triennale Milano
Unknown Unknowns: An Introduction to Mysteries
Architecture Announcement
Posted: July 14, 2022
Category
Design, Installation
Subjects
Epistemology
Institution
Triennale Milano
Unknown Unknowns: An Introduction to Mysteries
Architecture Announcement
Posted: June 17, 2022
Category
Architecture, Design
Subjects
Epistemology
Institution
Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo
Ana Torfs: Dark Space Where Things Cannot Be Put
e-flux Announcement
Posted: October 11, 2021
Category
Language & Linguistics, Colonialism & Imperialism
Subjects
Epistemology
Institution
Architecture Essay
Posted: August 9, 2021
Category
Education
Subjects
Knowledge Production, Translation, Postcolonial Theory, Universalism, Ontology , Epistemology
Architecture Fringe
Architecture Fringe 2021: (Un)Learning
Architecture Announcement
Posted: May 24, 2021
Category
Education
Subjects
Epistemology
Institution
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA)
On Vulnerability and Doubt
e-flux Announcement
Posted: June 28, 2019
Category
Feminism
Subjects
Affect, Epistemology
Institution
e-flux Live
Posted: December 15, 2017
Category
Indigenous Issues & Indigeneity
Subjects
Decolonization, Epistemology, Museology, Postcolonialism, Global South
Documenta 14, “Learning from Athens”
Ben Eastham
Art Criticism
Posted: April 10, 2017
Category
Music, Migration & Immigration
Subjects
Europe, Epistemology, Futures, Historicity & Historiography, Consciousness & Cognition
SUPERHUMANITY TALKS at the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial
Nick Axel, Beatriz Colomina, Keller Easterling, Anselm Franke, Francesca Hughes, Lydia Kallipoliti, Laura Kurgan, Lesley Lokko, Spyros Papapetros, Felicity D. Scott, Eyal Weizman, and Mark Wigley
e-flux Live
Posted: October 20, 2016
Category
Architecture, Design
Subjects
Epistemology
Queer Universal
Rebekah Sheldon
1.
Recent feminist and queer theorizations have turned emphatically away from the ambitions of late twentieth-century universalism in favor of particular forms of life. Lightning, atoms, jellyfish, and fetuses teem from the pages of prominent journals, as do HeLa cells, extinct aurouchs, wooly coral reefs, sacred pipestone, indigenous cosmologies, toxic dumps, and transgender frogs. 1 This patchwork of objects and life-forms has much to say about the ineradicable openness of the...
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 1, 2016
Category
Feminism
Subjects
Queer Art & Theory, Universalism, Human - Nonhuman Relations, Epistemology
Modernity vs. Epistemodiversity
María Iñigo Clavo
1. Facing History: Modernity as Prefix
It is a hallmark of postcolonial theory to question selective, self-flattering accounts of European modernity. Postcolonial theorists from both Europe and the rest of the world have illustrated how ideals of emancipation, equality, freedom, and scientific and industrial development were only possible through their opposites: colonial exploitation, inequality, slavery, torture, and suffering in the Global South. 1 That’s why, during the 1990s,...
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 1, 2016
Category
Colonialism & Imperialism, Latin America
Subjects
Postcolonial Theory, Epistemology, Modernity, Europe, Systems Theory
La Virreina Image Centre
Albert Serra: Catalonia in Venice. Singularity
e-flux Announcement
Posted: December 15, 2015
Category
Installation, Technology, Film
Subjects
Human - Nonhuman Relations, Epistemology
Institution
Kunsthal Aarhus
Systemics #2: As we may think (or, the next world library)
e-flux Announcement
Posted: November 7, 2013
Category
Data & Information, Management & Bureaucracy, Technology
Subjects
Epistemology, Knowledge Production, Networks, Artificial intelligence
Institution
Damián Ortega
Arnaud Gerspacher
Art Criticism
Posted: October 15, 2013
Category
Language & Linguistics, Sculpture, Installation, Anthropology & Ethnography
Subjects
Epistemology
Escape Velocities
Alex Williams
In the early years of the twenty-first century there emerged a renewed interest in theoretical ideas of acceleration . The key figure in these discussions has been the British philosopher Nick Land. The term “accelerationism,” itself coined by Benjamin Noys (in a characteristically critical register), bares some explanation. As Noys defines it, accelerationism describes certain libertarian post-Marxist positions (Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus, Lyotard’s Libidinal Economy , and the...
e-flux Journal
Posted: June 1, 2013
Category
Capitalism, Philosophy, Aesthetics
Subjects
Accelerationism, Neoliberalism, Epistemology
Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco
A project by Ruth Estévez and Javier Toscano
e-flux Announcement
Posted: February 24, 2013
Category
Architecture
Subjects
Epistemology
Institution
Epistemological Gaps between the Former Soviet East and the “Democratic” West
Keti Chukhrov
1. The Traps of Transitioning to “Democracy”
The Soviet Union is considered to be a classic example of a disciplinary society, and we are used to regarding it as a backward social system in comparison to the post-disciplinary societies of liberal democracy.
What for the Western states took place as a gradual development towards post-disciplinary conditions after the Second World War became shock therapy for the former Soviet states after 1989. The entrance into the “civilized...
e-flux Journal
Posted: January 1, 2013
Category
Communism, Psychology & Psychoanalysis, Democracy
Subjects
Post-Communism, Authoritarianism, Protests & Demonstrations, Epistemology, Soviet Union
On Animism, Modernity/Colonialism, and the African Order of Knowledge: Provisional Reflections
Harry Garuba
It might even be said that the fetish is the consummate form of power for Marx insofar as it mystifies and materializes in the same gesture, insofar as it crystallizes the necessity and inevitability of mystification for materialization. Indeed, if fetishism is that process whereby power as a relation is obscured through reification, through the guise of an object, then what Marx calls material life, with its thoroughly objective, tangible and concrete character, is always already...
e-flux Journal
Posted: July 1, 2012
Category
Philosophy, Colonialism & Imperialism
Subjects
Animism, Modernity, Epistemology, Commodification, Temporality, Postcolonial Theory, Africa
Animism: Notes on an Exhibition
Anselm Franke
The exhibition Animism sets out to provide a different context for reflecting on an old topic in the theory of art, one that has considerable reverberations in the present: the question of animation. Rather than investigating the effect of animation merely within the registers of aesthetics—for instance, by presenting a collection of artworks exemplifying different ways of achieving the effect of life or the lifelike within a field demarcated by the dialectics of movement and stasis—this...
e-flux Journal
Posted: July 1, 2012
Category
Contemporary Art, Museums, Philosophy
Subjects
Animism, Exhibition Histories, Epistemology
Animism in the Sciences Then and Now
Cornelius Borck
Animism began in the sciences, when the chemist and physician Georg Ernst Stahl coined the term for describing the specificity of living matter, its distinctive character vis-à-vis non living things. Its modern, almost inverted meaning, however, goes back to the Anthropologist Edward Burnett Tylor who used it to characterize a worldview that does not discriminate—or at least, not properly—between living and non-living matter but believes in “universal animation of nature” (Tylor: Primitive...
e-flux Journal
Posted: July 1, 2012
Subjects
Animism, Science, Postcolonial Theory, Epistemology
Under the Gaze of Theory
Boris Groys
From the start of modernity art began to manifest a certain dependence on theory. At that time—and even much later—art’s “need of explanation” ( Kommentarbeduerftigkeit ), as Arnold Gehlen characterized this hunger for theory was, in its turn, explained by the fact that modern art is “difficult”—inaccessible for the greater public. 1 According to this view, theory plays a role of propaganda—or, rather, advertising: the theorist comes after the artwork is produced, and explains this artwork...
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 1, 2012
Category
Contemporary Art, Philosophy, Avant-Garde
Subjects
Modernity, Epistemology
(Jena Revisited) Ten Tentative Tenets
Dieter Roelstraete
Why does almost everything seem to me like its own parody?
—Adrian Leverkühn in Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus
1. The Evanescent
The “Floating World” or “Ukiyo” is the name commonly given to the demimonde of nocturnal pleasures that flourished in Edo-period Japan (1603–1868), specifically in Tokyo’s historic red-light district of Yoshiwara; this era is best remembered today for the flowering of the art of woodblock prints (“ukiyo-e”) that depict various...
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 1, 2010
Category
Contemporary Art
Subjects
Curating, Epistemology
Art in the Knowledge-based Polis
Tom Holert
Lately, the concept of “knowledge production” has drawn new attention and prompted strong criticism within art discourse. One reason for the current conflictual status of this concept is the way it can be linked to the ideologies and practices of neoliberal educational policies. In an open letter entitled “To the Knowledge Producers,” a student from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna has eloquently criticized the way education and knowledge are being “commodified, industrialized, economized and...
e-flux Journal
Posted: February 1, 2009
Category
Contemporary Art, Education
Subjects
Academia, Protests & Demonstrations, Europe, Epistemology, Artistic Research
Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA)
100 Artists See God
e-flux Announcement
Posted: November 16, 2004
Category
Religion & Spirituality
Subjects
Epistemology, Ontology
Institution