"Leading artists, theorists, and writers exhume the dystopian and utopian futures contained within the present“I am the supercommunity, and you are only starting to recognize me. I grew out of something that used to be humanity. Some have compared me to angry crowds in public squares; others compare me to wind and atmosphere, or to software.”Invited to exhibit at the 56th Venice Biennale, e-flux journal produced a single issue over a fou ..."
"This book began as a two-part issue of e-flux journal devoted to the question: What is contemporary art? First, and most obviously: why is this question not asked? That is to say, why do we simply leave it to hover in the shadow of attempts at critical summation in the grand tradition of twentieth-century artistic movements? A single hegemonic “ism” has replaced clearly distinguishable movements and grand narratives. But what exactly do ..."
"Let's be clear about something: it is infuriating that most interesting artists are perfectly capable of functioning in at least two or three professions that are, unlike art, respected by society in terms of compensation and general usefulness. Furthermore, when the flexibility, certainty, and freedom promised by being part of a critical outside are considered as extensions of recent advances in economic exploitation, does the field of ..."
"Edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle Introduction by Stephen Squibb In this collection of essays Martha Rosler embarks on a broad inquiry into the economic and historical precedents for today’s soft ideology of creativity, with special focus on its elaborate retooling of class distinctions. In the creative city, the neutralization or incorporation of subcultural movements, the organic translation of the gritty into t ..."
"Leading artists, theorists, and writers exhume the dystopian and utopian futures contained within the present -I am the supercommunity, and you are only starting to recognize me. I grew out of something that used to be humanity. Some have compared me to angry crowds in public squares; others compare me to wind and atmosphere, or to software.- Invited to exhibit at the 56th Venice Biennale, e-flux journal produced a single issue over a f ..."
"Since conceptualism, the field of art has become increasingly accustomed to playing host to its own critique, and recent decades have found institutions engaged in self-critique as if by mandate. Important notions of legibility, autonomy, and critical engagement that were once necessary to carve out a space for a critic or critical art publication have transposed themselves onto artistic production proper, and are now considered to be o ..."
"In Hito Steyerl's writing we begin to see how, even if the hopes and desires for coherent collective political projects have been displaced onto images and screens, it is precisely here that we must look frankly at the technology that seals them in. The Wretched of the Screen collects a number of Steyerl's landmark essays from recent years in which she has steadily developed her very own politics of the image. Twisting the politics of r ..."
"If all things in the world can be considered as sources of aesthetic experience, then art no longer holds a privileged position. Rather, art comes between the subject and the world, and any aesthetic discourse used to legitimize art must also necessarily serve to undermine it. Following his recent books Art Power and The Communist Postscript, in Going Public Boris Groys looks to escape entrenched aesthetic and sociological understanding ..."
"Maybe it’s time to see how the sausage is made. In e-flux Food and Agriculture Reader, authors from around the world reflect on food and agriculture as foundational expressions of life—as sociality, history, and entanglement."
"The Goethe Institute Library Catalog as Raw Database Processed and PrintedDeparting from the library database, Julieta Aranda, Fia Backström, and R. Lyon are working alongside each other in a process that queries the way in which digital ..."
"The Goethe Institute Library Catalog as Raw Database Processed and PrintedDeparting from the library database, Julieta Aranda, Fia Backström, and R. Lyon are working alongside each other in a process that queries the way in which digital ..."
"Departing from the library database, Julieta Aranda, Fia Backström, and R. Lyon are working alongside each other in a process that queries the way in which digital repositories structure, mediate, and produce knowledge in parallel to ..."
"Departing from the library database, Julieta Aranda, Fia Backström, and R. Lyon are working alongside each other in a process that queries the way in which digital repositories structure, mediate, and produce knowledge in parallel to analog processes. They are developing alternate methods for relating information through a number of unannounced experiments accessible via the library that will unfold between January 5 and February 15, 2 ..."
"Departing from the library database, Julieta Aranda, Fia Backström, and R. Lyon are working alongside each other in a process that queries the way in which digital repositories structure, mediate, and produce knowledge in parallel to analog processes. They are developing alternate methods for relating information through a number of unannounced experiments accessible via the library that will unfold between January 5 and February 15, 20 ..."
"This volume is empty. Departing from the library database, Julieta Aranda, Fia Backström, and R. Lyon are working alongside each other in a process that queries the way in which digital repositories structure, mediate, and produce knowledge in parallel to analog processes. They are developing alternate methods for relating information through a number of unannounced experiments accessible via the library that will unfold between January ..."
"Departing from the library database, Julieta Aranda, Fia Backström, and R. Lyon are working alongside each other in a process that queries the way in which digital repositories structure, mediate, and produce knowledge in parallel to analog processes. They are developing alternate methods for relating information through a number of unannounced experiments accessible via the library that will unfold between January 5 and February 15, 20 ..."
"This volume is empty. Departing from the library database, Julieta Aranda, Fia Backström, and R. Lyon are working alongside each other in a process that queries the way in which digital repositories structure, mediate, and produce knowledge in parallel to analog processes. They are developing alternate methods for relating information through a number of unannounced experiments accessible via the library that will unfold between Januar ..."