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Under the right conditions, each day contains two brief moments when the rising or falling sun hits at an angle so precise it arrests the eye. In this issue of e-flux journal, Oraib Toukan shows that there is more to what filmmakers and photographers call the “golden hour.” The unmistakable light of a brief interval also reveals things exactly as they are. In this time of Gaza’s devastation, Toukan explores the power and limitations of words and images in conveying the depth of Palestinian grief and dignity amidst what appears to be an ongoing ethnic cleansing. The grounding concept of turbeh (soil) emerges as an axis for knowledge and justice, urging readers to look beyond the surface and into the soil grain of images. Editorial Editors Twenty-One Sunsets Oraib Toukan On Paralysis, Part 2 Evan Calder Williams Will AI Remember the Days of Slavery? Charles Tonderai Mudede The Oikos of the Earth, the Nomos of the Black Hole Antonia Majaca Counterinsurgent: Cop City, Abolition Ecology, and the Aesthetics of Counterreform T. J. Demos The Greatest Distance Between Two Points Is a Straight Line Claudio Medeiros and Victor Galdino Let’s Call It Art! Luis Camnitzer, https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-143/?ref=unknown

How many artists and art practitioners have you met who began in music? Maybe visual art offered them some relief from the rigors of musical scale and tonal structure, a broader material and conceptual palette. But what of those who stayed with musical form and sonic language while also testing its limits? Music’s own wildness takes endless forms, from the modern supernatural of recordings and long-range transmissions over air or wire to the synthetic identities promised by the energy injections of new popular sounds. The strange magical or divinatory interests of experimenters and composers have their own occult physics, automations, locutions. In this vein, we are very excited to work with curator Daniel Muzyczuk on the first in a series of issues retracing the weird and winding paths connecting musical and artistic experiments. Editorial Daniel Muzyczuk Yes, But Is It Edible? Robert Ashley Throat on Brain: Magic and the Art of Memory in Robert Ashley’s Operas Michał Libera a voice in my brain rolled up on skeins in cells Alice Notley in conversation with Daniel Muzyczuk Ten Lessons in Clairaudience Daniel Muzyczuk On Being Porous Kimberly Alidio Singing the Zahir Away: Lucier Meets Borges Alessandro Bosetti Pages Full of Words Ben Vida Synthetic Exercises Andrius Arutiunian, https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-144/?ref=unknown

This issue of e-flux journal is a collective reflection on the afterlife of the 2022 Jina uprising and the historical and material forces that compelled it. The issue’s authors are all based in Iran and are women activists and writers working across feminist, social, and civil fields. Due to security concerns and the criminalization of dissident voices within Iran, all use pen names to mask their identities. The essays include voices from ethnic and national struggle movements (in Kurdistan and Balochistan), campaigns against the death penalty and for Afghan migrant rights, and movements against the involuntary wearing of the hijab. Against the abstractions of our hyper-mediated time, their writing posits the body as a mode of inscription, as history incorporated, tracing its enforced subjections and emancipatory convulsions through the singular mutations of each body that contributed to the feminist revolution we witnessed. About twenty months since Jina’s point zero, these writings map the movement’s specificity in the genealogy of postrevolutionary insurrections in Iran. Editorial Ghoncheh Ghavami and Bahar Noorizadeh To Summon Life in a Cemetery Nahal Nikan When Silence Is Broken and Voices Ring Out Arnavaz Heads Without Headscarves Negar Hatami Cleansing Personal Archives and the Birth of the Black Hole of Collective Memory Elaheh A Struggle for Everyone Shouka Alizadeh and Goli Baharan A Power from Within Nuzhan Didartalab Jina, the Moment of No Return Aram Inflection Points of a Pluralist Feminist Revolution Parva Why Is Maho Our Symbol? Dasgoharan, https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-145/?ref=unknown

It is tempting to associate stargazing with imaginative escapism. With sheer scale and implacable beauty, the cosmos shows manifest disinterest in human affairs. Here is something, we take comfort in thinking, that we cannot possibly fuck up. But this division between our world and the one beyond is dangerous: colonizers said similar things about the “new world.” Like all such divisions, it’s also patently absurd. Editorial Ben Eastham Introduction to Cosmos Cinema Anton Vidokle Anna Andreeva: A “Cosmic-Minded Comrade” in the Red Rose Collective Christina Kiaer with Ekaterina Kulinicheva Through Shadows, Darkly Hallie Ayres The Cosmos Flickers for You Xin Wang Chaosmos Cinema Elena Vogman Orphan of Shanghai Zhen Zhang Exo-Ecologies: Notes on Intra-planetary and Inter-planetary Becomings Jonas Staal A Brief History of the Cosmos in Cinema Lukas Brasiskis River Swimming in a Salmon Zairong Xiang A Soviet Engineer of Eternal Life Arseny Zhilyaev, https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-142/?ref=unknown

It is tempting to associate stargazing with imaginative escapism. With sheer scale and implacable beauty, the cosmos shows manifest disinterest in human affairs. Here is something, we take comfort in thinking, that we cannot possibly fuck up. But this division between our world and the one beyond is dangerous: colonizers said similar things about the “new world.” Like all such divisions, it’s also patently absurd. Editorial Ben Eastham Introduction to Cosmos Cinema Anton Vidokle Anna Andreeva: A “Cosmic-Minded Comrade” in the Red Rose Collective Christina Kiaer with Ekaterina Kulinicheva Through Shadows, Darkly Hallie Ayres The Cosmos Flickers for You Xin Wang Chaosmos Cinema Elena Vogman Orphan of Shanghai Zhen Zhang Exo-Ecologies: Notes on Intra-planetary and Inter-planetary Becomings Jonas Staal A Brief History of the Cosmos in Cinema Lukas Brasiskis River Swimming in a Salmon Zairong Xiang A Soviet Engineer of Eternal Life Arseny Zhilyaev, https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-142/?ref=unknown

Under the right conditions, each day contains two brief moments when the rising or falling sun hits at an angle so precise it arrests the eye. In this issue of e-flux journal, Oraib Toukan shows that there is more to what filmmakers and photographers call the “golden hour.” The unmistakable light of a brief interval also reveals things exactly as they are. In this time of Gaza’s devastation, Toukan explores the power and limitations of words and images in conveying the depth of Palestinian grief and dignity amidst what appears to be an ongoing ethnic cleansing. The grounding concept of turbeh (soil) emerges as an axis for knowledge and justice, urging readers to look beyond the surface and into the soil grain of images. Editorial Editors Twenty-One Sunsets Oraib Toukan On Paralysis, Part 2 Evan Calder Williams Will AI Remember the Days of Slavery? Charles Tonderai Mudede The Oikos of the Earth, the Nomos of the Black Hole Antonia Majaca Counterinsurgent: Cop City, Abolition Ecology, and the Aesthetics of Counterreform T. J. Demos The Greatest Distance Between Two Points Is a Straight Line Claudio Medeiros and Victor Galdino Let’s Call It Art! Luis Camnitzer, https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-143/?ref=unknown

How many artists and art practitioners have you met who began in music? Maybe visual art offered them some relief from the rigors of musical scale and tonal structure, a broader material and conceptual palette. But what of those who stayed with musical form and sonic language while also testing its limits? Music’s own wildness takes endless forms, from the modern supernatural of recordings and long-range transmissions over air or wire to the synthetic identities promised by the energy injections of new popular sounds. The strange magical or divinatory interests of experimenters and composers have their own occult physics, automations, locutions. In this vein, we are very excited to work with curator Daniel Muzyczuk on the first in a series of issues retracing the weird and winding paths connecting musical and artistic experiments. Editorial Daniel Muzyczuk Yes, But Is It Edible? Robert Ashley Throat on Brain: Magic and the Art of Memory in Robert Ashley’s Operas Michał Libera a voice in my brain rolled up on skeins in cells Alice Notley in conversation with Daniel Muzyczuk Ten Lessons in Clairaudience Daniel Muzyczuk On Being Porous Kimberly Alidio Singing the Zahir Away: Lucier Meets Borges Alessandro Bosetti Pages Full of Words Ben Vida Synthetic Exercises Andrius Arutiunian, https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-144/?ref=unknown

This issue of e-flux journal is a collective reflection on the afterlife of the 2022 Jina uprising and the historical and material forces that compelled it. The issue’s authors are all based in Iran and are women activists and writers working across feminist, social, and civil fields. Due to security concerns and the criminalization of dissident voices within Iran, all use pen names to mask their identities. The essays include voices from ethnic and national struggle movements (in Kurdistan and Balochistan), campaigns against the death penalty and for Afghan migrant rights, and movements against the involuntary wearing of the hijab. Against the abstractions of our hyper-mediated time, their writing posits the body as a mode of inscription, as history incorporated, tracing its enforced subjections and emancipatory convulsions through the singular mutations of each body that contributed to the feminist revolution we witnessed. About twenty months since Jina’s point zero, these writings map the movement’s specificity in the genealogy of postrevolutionary insurrections in Iran. Editorial Ghoncheh Ghavami and Bahar Noorizadeh To Summon Life in a Cemetery Nahal Nikan When Silence Is Broken and Voices Ring Out Arnavaz Heads Without Headscarves Negar Hatami Cleansing Personal Archives and the Birth of the Black Hole of Collective Memory Elaheh A Struggle for Everyone Shouka Alizadeh and Goli Baharan A Power from Within Nuzhan Didartalab Jina, the Moment of No Return Aram Inflection Points of a Pluralist Feminist Revolution Parva Why Is Maho Our Symbol? Dasgoharan, https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-145/?ref=unknown

The illogic of exclusion and exception is seductive. Perhaps we will all know ourselves better when we advertise our own place in the world by taking sides with regimes that masquerade as fixed identities and project illusory strength while actually being irreparably fragmented from within, just like we all are. The oppressed, on the other hand, know that a much larger struggle can only be sustained by distinguishing faithful from false witnesses among their own ranks as well as the enemy’s. True identity is forged by how we choose to bear witness, by what endures and grows in meaning as it is transmitted. Editorial Editors Who Pierced the Eyes of Assum Preto? Thotti Afro Asia and the Ethics of Friendship Joan Kee in conversation with Serubiri Moses The Critique of Form (excerpted from Anteaesthetics) Rizvana Bradley From Tragic Mulatto to Cinematic Blackout Katherine C. M. Adams Hija de Perra: Writings from a Poor, Aspirational, Sudaca, Third World Perspective Julia Eilers Smith Filthy Interpretations: How “Queer Theory” Colonizes Our Poor, Aspirational, South American, Third World Context … Hija de Perra Precarious Solidarities: Artists for Democracy in Historical Perspective, Part 1 David Morris Critical (Auto) Theory McKenzie Wark, https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-140/?ref=unknown

Last month, Documenta 16’s Finding Committee resigned en masse following the resignations of Bracha L. Ettinger and Ranjit Hoskoté. In his written resignation, Hoskoté explained the high irony of being accused of anti-Semitism for having signed an online petition against an event hosted by the Israeli Consulate to India in 2019. The event drew an alliance between Zionism and Hindutva, the Hindu ultranationalist ideology that was inspired by European fascism and that proposed Hitler’s policy for Jews as a method for dealing with Indian Muslims. Yet Germany’s culture minister, Claudia Roth, denounced the obscure 2019 petition Hoskoté signed as “clearly anti-Semitic” for describing Zionism as “racist” and Israel as a “settler-colonial apartheid state,” threatening to withdraw state funding if Documenta didn’t cut ties with Hoskoté. Editorial Editors A Positive Concept of Barbarism: Benjamin and the Consequences Sami Khatib On Paralysis, Pt. 1 Evan Calder Williams Cite, Sight, Site: Notes on Citation as a Gesture of Reproducibility Nkule Mabaso and Serubiri Moses Gesture as a Visual Language Amol K Patil Sightings Xinyue Liu To Follow the Grain Dorota Jagoda Michalska Le Nemesiache: Erupting Feminist Cosmologies Sonia D’Alto The Automation of General Intelligence Matteo Pasquinelli Precarious Solidarities: Artists for Democracy in Historical Perspective, Part 2 David Morris Proposal for Documenta 16 Manuel J. Borja-Villel and Vasıf Kortun, https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-141/?ref=unknown

In this issue, Boris Groys charts the self-transformation of the working class through labor itself. Workers’ bodies, through their own labor, become spiritualized—artificial forms of their own creation. Since modernity, the working class, held up as a universal whole, has practiced “secular ascesis,” even if by exploitation and oppression. And where does this spiritualized dimension of the working class manifest itself? As art. Editorial Editors Speeds and Vectors of Energy Terrorism Svitlana Matviyenko Alexandre Kojève: Production of the Spirit Boris Groys Lola the Interpreter: Book One Lyn Hejinian Two Poems from Village LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs Fear and Poeming in Upstate New York Mohammed Zenia We Too Were Modern, Part II: The Tropical Ghost Is a Cannibal Thotti Para-zomia: Cultivating Interdependence in Koenji Jason Waite Italian Operaismo Gigi Roggero The Death Drive at the End of the World Ben Ware, https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-134/?ref=unknown

Part of what makes interviews so engaging to read is that they presume to share ideas on the fly, in a social setting and in the world. In comparison, written essays feel like constructed machines, lean and airtight with beginnings, middles, and ends. No wonder interviews, as a whole, seem a bit decadent in their procrastinatory pleasure. It’s like they catch interlocutors off guard when they should be doing something more serious. Interestingly though, the informality of speech is also a ruse, and a formal challenge for those who prefer to construct words and ideas methodically, because things sometimes spill out that wouldn’t be disciplined into more structured writing and thinking. Editorial Editors Interview with a Cat Marcel Broodthaers The Call of the Unknown in Art and Cosmotechnics Yuk Hui and Barry Schwabsky in conversation We Were Glowing Dark Inanimates Renee Gladman Leaving the Earth Boris Groys and Alice Wang in conversation FUTURE IMPERFECT Elizabeth Willis On End Credits Steve McQueen and Doreen Mende in conversation From Islands of Commons to Collective Autonomy Mary N. Taylor and Janet Sarbanes in conversation from Commonplace Hugo García Manríquez The Evasive Potentials of Contemporary Art Liam Gillick and Jörg Heiser in conversation Listening and Writing to Images Tina M. Campt and Jace Clayton in conversation, https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-136/?ref=unknown

If you believe in progress, the old and aged are always to blame for causing the persistent problems of the present, and the young, who supposedly come later, are the solution. This is all very tidy until you wake up one day to find yourself old—and observe that the young who blame you are also the young who are causing the problems of the future, just as you had in your own youth. In this issue, Luis Camnitzer offers advice to the aging—which, to be clear, means all of us—through an anecdotal contribution to the field of intergenerational dialogic studies. He discusses attempts at nonauthoritarian child rearing; his experience, while a student activist, of explaining an art historian’s own obsolescence to his face; and recent moments when he’s realized that his generation has become ineffective at communicating with the young. In other words, Camnitzer fears that his has become the generation suffering from “asshole syndrome”—a diagnosis he and his fellow students used to dole out. Age and power together form a complex configuration, which make empathy and self-assessment all the more important when communicating across generational lines… Editorial Editors Geriatric Power Luis Camnitzer No Order Makes Any Sense: A Conversation on Ilya Kabakov Boris Groys and Anton Khitrov Politics at Sunset: Theses on Benjamin Mario Tronti Hospicing Modernity: A Conversation Vanessa Machado de Oliveira Andreotti and Lucia Pietroiusti Anarcho-Ecstasy: Options for an Afri-Queer Becoming KJ Abudu Racial Fascism Alberto Toscano Capitalism and Schismogenesis, Part 2 Sven Lütticken Never Born Shane Greene, https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-139/?ref=unknown

In this issue, Xin Wang details the haunting of China’s contemporary art by socialist-realist pedagogy from the Soviet Union. Perhaps even more significant than this line of influence is its near-total occlusion in Western accounts of China’s avant-garde lineages, no doubt related to Clement Greenberg’s assaults on Soviet socialist realism for epitomizing kitsch. Following Greenberg’s lead, Western scholars may have attempted to be generous by elevating works above lowly pictorial origins, but in doing so, they cleaved them not only from their key influences, but also from a range of formal innovations and attitudes specific to socialist modernity—a version of modernism that continues to persist through its negation, haunting artworks up to today… Editorial Editors Soviet Hauntology Xin Wang On Tribunalism: Should Artists Use the Court Form? Daniel Loick We knew aracelis girmay Caste-pital Sajan Mani radiation underground and in the sky Benjamin Krusling Beatings Simone White REVOLUTION+1: An Interview with Masao Adachi Go Hirasawa and Ethan Spigland Before and After? Temporalities of Disaster Rebecca Jarman The Being of Relation Erin Manning From Theta Matt Longabucco We Too Were Modern, Part III: Of Earth and World Thotti, https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-135/?ref=unknown

In this issue, Charles Mudede proposes that Octavia Butler brought us a viable theory of quantum movement. Who is capable of moving through time to haunt other people in other places and other times, and in which direction? Paradoxically—and there are many paradoxes—just as the hurt have been hurt, the dead can only be dead, and are for that reason no longer able to move forward in time to haunt us. We, however, are alive in our own time, and we feel pain on their behalf. It is we who reach out from the future—our present—to haunt them in the past. We are in fact the zombies of the already dead, mirrors of our own regrets, just as we are presently haunted by messengers from a future time warning us to not repeat what they know will not end well… Editorial Editors Who Haunts? Charles Tonderai Mudede There’s No Beginning and There Is No End: Mariah Carey and the Refusal of Time Amelia Groom On Food as an Analytic of the System Samer Frangie Audre Lorde’s Bloody Rush-Hour Revolution Serubiri Moses Observing Kilimanoor Ratheesh T Capitalism and Schismogenesis, Part 1 Sven Lütticken Cracks in Theories of Emancipation under Conditions of War Keti Chukhrov, https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-138/?ref=unknown

In the first e-flux journal issue of 2023, the Ukranian researcher and curator Kateryna Iakovlenko points our eyes at images of forests. The first is from the site of a mass grave outside Izium, a city on the Donets River in eastern Ukraine. The bodies were gone by the time the photo was taken; instead, the photographer shows medics and the surrounding woods. Another is a nineteenth-century photograph of a forest in Tasmania picturing lush trees, which on close examination conceal colonizing British officers. A more recent Instagram photograph shows a feminist Ukrainian Army volunteer living, with others, among the trees they are protecting. A final photo was captured by an occupying Russian Federation soldier’s camera moments before his death outside Izium’s woods. His body remains out of view; his unambiguous vantage point of the exploded forest landscape remains… Editorial Editors Exactly That Body: Images Against Oppression Kateryna Iakovlenko The Noah Complex Jörg Heiser Hyper-Semiotization and De-Sexualization of Desire: On Félix Guattari Franco “Bifo” Berardi We Too Were Modern, Part I: Of Brazilian Autophagic Flowers and Navigators Thotti Luck, Statecraft, and Withdrawal: Video Criticism in Southeast Asia Serubiri Moses Eat the Camera, Feed the Screen Beny Wagner Operational Images: Between Light and Data Jussi Parikka, https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-133/?ref=unknown

Often it seems like we are facing so many endings that we can only be living in the end times—a self-annihilation whose inevitability even appears deliberate. From climate projection to daily news, much of the apocalyptic tone we encounter has an almost celebratory character, as if the end times were more of an ideological construction than a common observation. Certainly a lot of it is macho clickbait or political brinkmanship, and in some cases actual worlds ending. But it also carries a stranger imaginative character in the absence of any significant political imagination by traditional standards. Indeed, taken as a literary tool more than a documentary one, perhaps there is more to the end of the world than we thought… Editorial Editors ChatGPT, or the Eschatology of Machines Yuk Hui The Completion Franco “Bifo” Berardi The deer, when it is tired Mary Walling Blackburn Curating Immortality Boris Groys Reluctantly Queer Akosua Adoma Owusu and Kwame Edwin Otu Sadistic Chola Manifesto Olga Rodríguez-Ulloa Between Two Latin Americanisms: The Social Theory of Art (1975–86) Mijail Mitrovic Non-Western Avant-Gardes: A Misappropriation Otavio Leonidio Ashes to Ashes: On Combustion and Tyranny Fábio Zuker, https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-137/?ref=unknown

In the first e-flux journal issue of 2023, the Ukranian researcher and curator Kateryna Iakovlenko points our eyes at images of forests. The first is from the site of a mass grave outside Izium, a city on the Donets River in eastern Ukraine. The bodies were gone by the time the photo was taken; instead, the photographer shows medics and the surrounding woods. Another is a nineteenth-century photograph of a forest in Tasmania picturing lush trees, which on close examination conceal colonizing British officers. A more recent Instagram photograph shows a feminist Ukrainian Army volunteer living, with others, among the trees they are protecting. A final photo was captured by an occupying Russian Federation soldier’s camera moments before his death outside Izium’s woods. His body remains out of view; his unambiguous vantage point of the exploded forest landscape remains… Editorial Editors Exactly That Body: Images Against Oppression Kateryna Iakovlenko The Noah Complex Jörg Heiser Hyper-Semiotization and De-Sexualization of Desire: On Félix Guattari Franco “Bifo” Berardi We Too Were Modern, Part I: Of Brazilian Autophagic Flowers and Navigators Thotti Luck, Statecraft, and Withdrawal: Video Criticism in Southeast Asia Serubiri Moses Eat the Camera, Feed the Screen Beny Wagner Operational Images: Between Light and Data Jussi Parikka, https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-133/?ref=unknown

In this issue, Xin Wang details the haunting of China’s contemporary art by socialist-realist pedagogy from the Soviet Union. Perhaps even more significant than this line of influence is its near-total occlusion in Western accounts of China’s avant-garde lineages, no doubt related to Clement Greenberg’s assaults on Soviet socialist realism for epitomizing kitsch. Following Greenberg’s lead, Western scholars may have attempted to be generous by elevating works above lowly pictorial origins, but in doing so, they cleaved them not only from their key influences, but also from a range of formal innovations and attitudes specific to socialist modernity—a version of modernism that continues to persist through its negation, haunting artworks up to today… Editorial Editors Soviet Hauntology Xin Wang On Tribunalism: Should Artists Use the Court Form? Daniel Loick We knew aracelis girmay Caste-pital Sajan Mani radiation underground and in the sky Benjamin Krusling Beatings Simone White REVOLUTION+1: An Interview with Masao Adachi Go Hirasawa and Ethan Spigland Before and After? Temporalities of Disaster Rebecca Jarman The Being of Relation Erin Manning From Theta Matt Longabucco We Too Were Modern, Part III: Of Earth and World Thotti, https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-135/?ref=unknown

Often it seems like we are facing so many endings that we can only be living in the end times—a self-annihilation whose inevitability even appears deliberate. From climate projection to daily news, much of the apocalyptic tone we encounter has an almost celebratory character, as if the end times were more of an ideological construction than a common observation. Certainly a lot of it is macho clickbait or political brinkmanship, and in some cases actual worlds ending. But it also carries a stranger imaginative character in the absence of any significant political imagination by traditional standards. Indeed, taken as a literary tool more than a documentary one, perhaps there is more to the end of the world than we thought… Editorial Editors ChatGPT, or the Eschatology of Machines Yuk Hui The Completion Franco “Bifo” Berardi The deer, when it is tired Mary Walling Blackburn Curating Immortality Boris Groys Reluctantly Queer Akosua Adoma Owusu and Kwame Edwin Otu Sadistic Chola Manifesto Olga Rodríguez-Ulloa Between Two Latin Americanisms: The Social Theory of Art (1975–86) Mijail Mitrovic Non-Western Avant-Gardes: A Misappropriation Otavio Leonidio Ashes to Ashes: On Combustion and Tyranny Fábio Zuker, https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-137/?ref=unknown

In this issue, Charles Mudede proposes that Octavia Butler brought us a viable theory of quantum movement. Who is capable of moving through time to haunt other people in other places and other times, and in which direction? Paradoxically—and there are many paradoxes—just as the hurt have been hurt, the dead can only be dead, and are for that reason no longer able to move forward in time to haunt us. We, however, are alive in our own time, and we feel pain on their behalf. It is we who reach out from the future—our present—to haunt them in the past. We are in fact the zombies of the already dead, mirrors of our own regrets, just as we are presently haunted by messengers from a future time warning us to not repeat what they know will not end well… Editorial Editors Who Haunts? Charles Tonderai Mudede There’s No Beginning and There Is No End: Mariah Carey and the Refusal of Time Amelia Groom On Food as an Analytic of the System Samer Frangie Audre Lorde’s Bloody Rush-Hour Revolution Serubiri Moses Observing Kilimanoor Ratheesh T Capitalism and Schismogenesis, Part 1 Sven Lütticken Cracks in Theories of Emancipation under Conditions of War Keti Chukhrov, https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-138/?ref=unknown

If you believe in progress, the old and aged are always to blame for causing the persistent problems of the present, and the young, who supposedly come later, are the solution. This is all very tidy until you wake up one day to find yourself old—and observe that the young who blame you are also the young who are causing the problems of the future, just as you had in your own youth. In this issue, Luis Camnitzer offers advice to the aging—which, to be clear, means all of us—through an anecdotal contribution to the field of intergenerational dialogic studies. He discusses attempts at nonauthoritarian child rearing; his experience, while a student activist, of explaining an art historian’s own obsolescence to his face; and recent moments when he’s realized that his generation has become ineffective at communicating with the young. In other words, Camnitzer fears that his has become the generation suffering from “asshole syndrome”—a diagnosis he and his fellow students used to dole out. Age and power together form a complex configuration, which make empathy and self-assessment all the more important when communicating across generational lines… Editorial Editors Geriatric Power Luis Camnitzer No Order Makes Any Sense: A Conversation on Ilya Kabakov Boris Groys and Anton Khitrov Politics at Sunset: Theses on Benjamin Mario Tronti Hospicing Modernity: A Conversation Vanessa Machado de Oliveira Andreotti and Lucia Pietroiusti Anarcho-Ecstasy: Options for an Afri-Queer Becoming KJ Abudu Racial Fascism Alberto Toscano Capitalism and Schismogenesis, Part 2 Sven Lütticken Never Born Shane Greene, https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-139/?ref=unknown

Last month, Documenta 16’s Finding Committee resigned en masse following the resignations of Bracha L. Ettinger and Ranjit Hoskoté. In his written resignation, Hoskoté explained the high irony of being accused of anti-Semitism for having signed an online petition against an event hosted by the Israeli Consulate to India in 2019. The event drew an alliance between Zionism and Hindutva, the Hindu ultranationalist ideology that was inspired by European fascism and that proposed Hitler’s policy for Jews as a method for dealing with Indian Muslims. Yet Germany’s culture minister, Claudia Roth, denounced the obscure 2019 petition Hoskoté signed as “clearly anti-Semitic” for describing Zionism as “racist” and Israel as a “settler-colonial apartheid state,” threatening to withdraw state funding if Documenta didn’t cut ties with Hoskoté. Editorial Editors A Positive Concept of Barbarism: Benjamin and the Consequences Sami Khatib On Paralysis, Pt. 1 Evan Calder Williams Cite, Sight, Site: Notes on Citation as a Gesture of Reproducibility Nkule Mabaso and Serubiri Moses Gesture as a Visual Language Amol K Patil Sightings Xinyue Liu To Follow the Grain Dorota Jagoda Michalska Le Nemesiache: Erupting Feminist Cosmologies Sonia D’Alto The Automation of General Intelligence Matteo Pasquinelli Precarious Solidarities: Artists for Democracy in Historical Perspective, Part 2 David Morris Proposal for Documenta 16 Manuel J. Borja-Villel and Vasıf Kortun, https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-141/?ref=unknown

In this issue, Boris Groys charts the self-transformation of the working class through labor itself. Workers’ bodies, through their own labor, become spiritualized—artificial forms of their own creation. Since modernity, the working class, held up as a universal whole, has practiced “secular ascesis,” even if by exploitation and oppression. And where does this spiritualized dimension of the working class manifest itself? As art. Editorial Editors Speeds and Vectors of Energy Terrorism Svitlana Matviyenko Alexandre Kojève: Production of the Spirit Boris Groys Lola the Interpreter: Book One Lyn Hejinian Two Poems from Village LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs Fear and Poeming in Upstate New York Mohammed Zenia We Too Were Modern, Part II: The Tropical Ghost Is a Cannibal Thotti Para-zomia: Cultivating Interdependence in Koenji Jason Waite Italian Operaismo Gigi Roggero The Death Drive at the End of the World Ben Ware, https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-134/?ref=unknown

Part of what makes interviews so engaging to read is that they presume to share ideas on the fly, in a social setting and in the world. In comparison, written essays feel like constructed machines, lean and airtight with beginnings, middles, and ends. No wonder interviews, as a whole, seem a bit decadent in their procrastinatory pleasure. It’s like they catch interlocutors off guard when they should be doing something more serious. Interestingly though, the informality of speech is also a ruse, and a formal challenge for those who prefer to construct words and ideas methodically, because things sometimes spill out that wouldn’t be disciplined into more structured writing and thinking. Editorial Editors Interview with a Cat Marcel Broodthaers The Call of the Unknown in Art and Cosmotechnics Yuk Hui and Barry Schwabsky in conversation We Were Glowing Dark Inanimates Renee Gladman Leaving the Earth Boris Groys and Alice Wang in conversation FUTURE IMPERFECT Elizabeth Willis On End Credits Steve McQueen and Doreen Mende in conversation From Islands of Commons to Collective Autonomy Mary N. Taylor and Janet Sarbanes in conversation from Commonplace Hugo García Manríquez The Evasive Potentials of Contemporary Art Liam Gillick and Jörg Heiser in conversation Listening and Writing to Images Tina M. Campt and Jace Clayton in conversation, https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-136/?ref=unknown

The illogic of exclusion and exception is seductive. Perhaps we will all know ourselves better when we advertise our own place in the world by taking sides with regimes that masquerade as fixed identities and project illusory strength while actually being irreparably fragmented from within, just like we all are. The oppressed, on the other hand, know that a much larger struggle can only be sustained by distinguishing faithful from false witnesses among their own ranks as well as the enemy’s. True identity is forged by how we choose to bear witness, by what endures and grows in meaning as it is transmitted. Editorial Editors Who Pierced the Eyes of Assum Preto? Thotti Afro Asia and the Ethics of Friendship Joan Kee in conversation with Serubiri Moses The Critique of Form (excerpted from Anteaesthetics) Rizvana Bradley From Tragic Mulatto to Cinematic Blackout Katherine C. M. Adams Hija de Perra: Writings from a Poor, Aspirational, Sudaca, Third World Perspective Julia Eilers Smith Filthy Interpretations: How “Queer Theory” Colonizes Our Poor, Aspirational, South American, Third World Context … Hija de Perra Precarious Solidarities: Artists for Democracy in Historical Perspective, Part 1 David Morris Critical (Auto) Theory McKenzie Wark, https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-140/?ref=unknown

In this issue, Asia Bazdyrieva offers a broader picture of Ukraine’s significance as a biopolitical resource for Western European appetites. In Ukraine’s operational capacity as Europe’s “breadbasket,” a colonial imaginary unfolds that sees the country’s human, agricultural, and material resources as inert—ripe for extraction by a conqueror who can release their inexhaustible transactional benefits. Through this strategic lens, Russia’s invasion appears to be the latest in a longer line that implicates Germany, which today speculates on Ukraine’s material and territorial benefits while hoping to distance itself from the Nazis’ ruthless interest in controlling the ukrainische Kornkammer… Editorial Editors No Milk, No Love Asia Bazdyrieva The New ..., https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-127/?ref=unknown

Chances are that in the last couple years, your life has been turned upside down by a pandemic, a war, an economic meltdown, or some combination of these. And you may feel that whatever you were lucky enough to avoid may already be on its way to you. As the coming years are sure to bring more uncertainty, maybe it’s time to prepare. Buy a small armory and move into an underground bunker? Blame foreigners or neighboring countries? Attack each other online? Let’s try instead to consider how our basic needs are met, as the individual and collective bodies that ..., https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-128/?ref=unknown

It’s unclear how many people still alive today can remember feeling the strange, warm rains that fell over the riverside city of Pripyat on the Ukraine-Belarus border in late April 1986. Pripyat was built in 1970 to serve the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, dedicated to harnessing the mirnyy atom (“peaceful atom”) for the Soviet Union. For the past thirty-six years, Pripyat and a surrounding exclusion zone of inconsistent bounds bridging swaths of today’s Ukraine, Belarus, and a bit of Russia have been off limits to most human beings. In this issue of e-flux journal, Svitlana Matviyenko disagrees with Paul ..., https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-126/?ref=unknown

As a child I really wanted to be Ukrainian. Or so I told my parents. When they asked why, I told them it’s because Ukrainians are happy people who sing and dance, while Jews and Russians are sad. I’m not totally sure where I got this idea. We did spend a lot of time in Ukraine, in a city called Dnipro, where my mother is from and where a part of my family still lives. My father’s family lived in an impoverished small town near Moscow that they fled to from Lithuania during World War I. The part of the ..., https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-125/?ref=unknown

“Black Rave”—that’s a great way to think about the sonics of insurgency, a phrase that brings politics back into dance music and culture. Electronic dance music comes from a place of politics, as much as musical purists and Twitter trolls love to insist that “race doesn’t matter” or that “it’s just about the music,” never mind who gets booked to play that music. In the issue, Blair Black and Alexander Weheliye do a wonderful job reminding us of the strategic ways that Blackness and queerness have been removed from electronic music. Which is why the word “rave” is such a racialized one, even as Black people have been raving from the jump… Editorial: Black Rave madison moore and McKenzie Wark Dark Banjee Aesthetic: Hearing a Queer-of-Color Archive within Club Music Blair Black Don’t Take It Away: BlackFem Voices in Electronic Dance Music Alexander Ghedi Weheliye Do You Remember When We Just Lived? Dion McKenzie aka TYGAPAW I Didn’t Have Any Choice But to Become an Artist Jasmine Infiniti A Whale Unbothered: Theorizing the Ecosystem of the Ballroom Scene Julian Kevon Glover A Universal History of the Afterparty Leo Felipe Dissonance: A Suite on Trans Femme Noise Eva Pensis Hood Rave LA: Framing The Black Femme Underground Kumi James aka BAE BAE Don’t Techno For an Answer Tavia Nyong’o Mix: Black Techno | Queer Rave MORENXXX Mix: Aural Battle Armor Femanyst Contents Under Pressure: A (Queer) Techno Manifesto madison moore, https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-132/?ref=unknown

In this issue of e-flux journal, Carolina Caycedo explains that so many climate activists in South America are murdered by the state that their friends and families have coined a new term for this loss: the dead aren’t killed so much as they are “sown,” like seeds. Their legacies are a source of abundant energy and knowledge to be used in continuing struggles against the collusion of extractive corporations and necropolitical states… Editorial Editors Portrait of a Poet as a Young Man: Jonas Mekas in War and Exile Saulius Sužiedėlis The Wasted Earth: Excess, Superabundance, and Sludge Elizabeth A. Povinelli Bell’s Theorem (Reductio ad Infinitum): Contemporary Art—It’s a White Thing! Richard Bell The Resurrection of Nashism: Report on the Emergent Forms of Spectacular Fascism in Scandinavia Organ of the Autonomous Sciences Emotional Patterns in Art in Post-1949 China, Part I: Community of Feeling Su Wei Where Will Our Food Come From? Genaro Amaro Altamirano La Siembra – The Sowing Carolina Caycedo, https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-129/?ref=unknown

“Black Rave”—that’s a great way to think about the sonics of insurgency, a phrase that brings politics back into dance music and culture. Electronic dance music comes from a place of politics, as much as musical purists and Twitter trolls love to insist that “race doesn’t matter” or that “it’s just about the music,” never mind who gets booked to play that music. In the issue, Blair Black and Alexander Weheliye do a wonderful job reminding us of the strategic ways that Blackness and queerness have been removed from electronic music. Which is why the word “rave” is such a racialized one, even as Black people have been raving from the jump… Editorial: Black Rave madison moore and McKenzie Wark Dark Banjee Aesthetic: Hearing a Queer-of-Color Archive within Club Music Blair Black Don’t Take It Away: BlackFem Voices in Electronic Dance Music Alexander Ghedi Weheliye Do You Remember When We Just Lived? Dion McKenzie aka TYGAPAW I Didn’t Have Any Choice But to Become an Artist Jasmine Infiniti A Whale Unbothered: Theorizing the Ecosystem of the Ballroom Scene Julian Kevon Glover A Universal History of the Afterparty Leo Felipe Dissonance: A Suite on Trans Femme Noise Eva Pensis Hood Rave LA: Framing The Black Femme Underground Kumi James aka BAE BAE Don’t Techno For an Answer Tavia Nyong’o Mix: Black Techno | Queer Rave MORENXXX Mix: Aural Battle Armor Femanyst Contents Under Pressure: A (Queer) Techno Manifesto madison moore, https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-132/?ref=unknown

In this issue of e-flux journal, Carolina Caycedo explains that so many climate activists in South America are murdered by the state that their friends and families have coined a new term for this loss: the dead aren’t killed so much as they are “sown,” like seeds. Their legacies are a source of abundant energy and knowledge to be used in continuing struggles against the collusion of extractive corporations and necropolitical states… Editorial Editors Portrait of a Poet as a Young Man: Jonas Mekas in War and Exile Saulius Sužiedėlis The Wasted Earth: Excess, Superabundance, and Sludge Elizabeth A. Povinelli Bell’s Theorem (Reductio ad Infinitum): Contemporary Art—It’s a White Thing! Richard Bell The Resurrection of Nashism: Report on the Emergent Forms of Spectacular Fascism in Scandinavia Organ of the Autonomous Sciences Emotional Patterns in Art in Post-1949 China, Part I: Community of Feeling Su Wei Where Will Our Food Come From? Genaro Amaro Altamirano La Siembra – The Sowing Carolina Caycedo, https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-129/?ref=unknown

In this issue, Asia Bazdyrieva offers a broader picture of Ukraine’s significance as a biopolitical resource for Western European appetites. In Ukraine’s operational capacity as Europe’s “breadbasket,” a colonial imaginary unfolds that sees the country’s human, agricultural, and material resources as inert—ripe for extraction by a conqueror who can release their inexhaustible transactional benefits. Through this strategic lens, Russia’s invasion appears to be the latest in a longer line that implicates Germany, which today speculates on Ukraine’s material and territorial benefits while hoping to distance itself from the Nazis’ ruthless interest in controlling the ukrainische Kornkammer… Editorial Editors No Milk, No Love Asia Bazdyrieva The New Black Politics of the Cosmic Charles Mudede Alien Life as an Observer Gregor Mobius The Agency of (Planetary) Feeling Josephine Berry Elements of Gnosticism in Dialectical Materialism (Soviet Marxism) Boris Groys Film and the Toxic Politics of Waste: A Roundtable Hanna Baumann, Adriana Massidda, Bassem Saad, Elizabeth Saleh, and Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins Queer Temporalities and Protest Infrastructures in Belarus, 2020‹22: A Brief Museum Guide Aleksei Borisionok A Lumpen Line through the Fred Sandback Museum Mary Walling Blackburn, https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-127/?ref=unknown

As a child I really wanted to be Ukrainian. Or so I told my parents. When they asked why, I told them it’s because Ukrainians are happy people who sing and dance, while Jews and Russians are sad. I’m not totally sure where I got this idea. We did spend a lot of time in Ukraine, in a city called Dnipro, where my mother is from and where a part of my family still lives. My father’s family lived in an impoverished small town near Moscow that they fled to from Lithuania during World War I. The part of the family that stayed in Lithuania was later massacred during World War II. Sadly, my mother’s family in Ukraine did not fare well during World War II either— their small house in Dnipro was destroyed by the Nazis in 1941. Only recently, my mother received a small and symbolic reparation of a few hundred euros from the German government, about seventy years later… Editorial Editors The Case Against the Russian Federation Oleksiy Radynski War and (Senile) Dementia Franco “Bifo” Berardi A Conversation on Art and Cosmotechnics, Part 2 Yuk Hui and Brian Kuan Wood Sans Parole: Reflections on Camera Lucida, Part 2 Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa Out of the Clear Erin Manning What We Talk about When We Talk about Crisis: A Conversation, Part 2 Yazan Khalili, Lara Khaldi, and Marwa Arsanios We Are Not As Gods: Terrestrial Horizons Liaisons The Petrified, Part 1 Tyler Coburn Anselm Berrigan, Three Books and a Poem David Buuck, Three Books and a Poem Laura Henriksen, Three Books and a Poem Maryam Parhizkar, Three Books and a Poem Danny Snelson, Three Books and a Poem Rac, https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-125/?ref=unknown

Chances are that in the last couple years, your life has been turned upside down by a pandemic, a war, an economic meltdown, or some combination of these. And you may feel that whatever you were lucky enough to avoid may already be on its way to you. As the coming years are sure to bring more uncertainty, maybe it’s time to prepare. Buy a small armory and move into an underground bunker? Blame foreigners or neighboring countries? Attack each other online? Let’s try instead to consider how our basic needs are met, as the individual and collective bodies that we are… Editorial Editors Planting and Becoming Autonomous farming collectives Porcupette Mary Walling Blackburn Forest Foodways in West Papua Sophie Chao Grain, Ink, and Stones: The Story of Ukrainian Hunger Lia Dostlieva We Will Lack Bread No Longer Alix Guibert Passing Blood, Consuming Memories: Making Fish Cutlets with Amma Mythri Jegathesan The Agrarian Mind Ou Ning A Turntable Enrique Del Risco What Sort of an Art Is Cookery? Are the Great Chefs All Dead? Martha Rosler Hanan and the People of the Soil Vivien Sansour A Meditation on Food Waste, Imperfection, and Accumulation Rachel Vaughn, https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-128/?ref=unknown

It’s unclear how many people still alive today can remember feeling the strange, warm rains that fell over the riverside city of Pripyat on the Ukraine-Belarus border in late April 1986. Pripyat was built in 1970 to serve the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, dedicated to harnessing the mirnyy atom (“peaceful atom”) for the Soviet Union. For the past thirty-six years, Pripyat and a surrounding exclusion zone of inconsistent bounds bridging swaths of today’s Ukraine, Belarus, and a bit of Russia have been off limits to most human beings. In this issue of e-flux journal, Svitlana Matviyenko disagrees with Paul Virilio when he says that the Chernobyl disaster was “the original accident” of war and peace converging in technological “shipwreck modernity.” For Matviyenko, a Ukrainian scholar of cyberwar and nuclear colonialism, the full and non-accidental activation of the same nuclear-plant-turned-weapon happened this year, just a month ago… Editorial Editors Nuclear Cyberwar: From Energy Colonialism to Energy Terrorism Svitlana Matviyenko Putin: Restoration of Destruction Boris Groys in conversation with Liza Lazerson The West at War: On the Self-Enclosure of the Liberal Mind Boris Buden Pasolini and the Queer Revolution in Beirut Raed Rafei Personal Entropy Gregor Mobius The Petrified, Part 2 Tyler Coburn Plastic Media Heather Davis, https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-126/?ref=unknown

In this issue of e-flux journal, deep glances at the past hope to make sense of the present by diving into history’s original abysses and early promises. Mi You brings us a refreshingly constructive analysis of this year’s documenta fifteen, its curators, its intended organizational structure, and its audiences. Olga Olina, Hallie Ayres, and Anton Vidokle chart suppressed, banned, and otherwise disappeared languages in a resource that sprawls over geography and time from 1367 to today, showing an ongoing process of erasure and survival that corresponds with the rise of nation-states… Editorial Editors What Politics? What Aesthetics?: Reflections on documenta fifteen Mi You The Catastrophe Revealed: On Radiation and Revolution Sabu Kohso in conversation with Matt Peterson Homage to Bruno Latour Martin Guinard A Cursed Franchise: Reliving Colonial Nightmares Through Endless Sci-fi Remakes Leon Dische Becker and Cosmo Bjorkenheim Fascist Sunbathing and the Decolonization of Architectural Memory Nicola Perugini and Tommaso Fiscaletti Emotional Patterns in Art in Post-1949 China, Part II: Internality and Transcendence Su Wei Entangled Exiles Pelin Tan Muted Tongues: A Timeline of Suppressed Languages Compiled by Olga Olina, Hallie Ayres, and Anton Vidokle, https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-131/?ref=unknown

Viruses have lurked on the margins of cultural theory ever since Deleuze and Guattari suggested that “our viruses make us form a rhizome with other creatures.” According to Patricia Clough and Jasbir Puar, in the age of the internet, virality became “a form of communication and transmission across various domains: the biological, the cultural, the financial, the political, the linguistic, the technical, and computational.” In recent years, however, viral theory in the humanities and social sciences hasn’t kept pace with the scientific initiatives starting to peek into the virosphere’s vast unknown realms. This special issue of e-flux journal seeks to reckon with the multitude of invisible viral agents waiting to disrupt, detour, and reroute established modes of life… Editorial: Welcome to the Virosphere Eben Kirksey Kinship Is Anarchy Caitlin Berrigan Viral Things: Twelve Keywords Stephan Guttinger Contingent Contagion Sria Chatterjee Death to Death / Life by Cuts Mel Y. Chen The Viral Real Celia Lowe Viral Junk Rachel Vaughn Barebacking in Restaurants and Other Fantasies of the Virosphere Tim Dean Viruses Are More Like Cone Snails Than Hijackers Hannah Landecker Getting Lucky in Thailand: Or How to Coexist with Coronaviruses in Multispecies Contact Zones Eben Kirksey, Areeya Tivasuradej, Blake Palmer, Myint Than, Anne Atchara Changwong, Pietro Lo Casto, and Maya Kóvskaya, https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-130/?ref=unknown

In this issue, Asia Bazdyrieva offers a broader picture of Ukraine’s significance as a biopolitical resource for Western European appetites. In Ukraine’s operational capacity as Europe’s “breadbasket,” a colonial imaginary unfolds that sees the country’s human, agricultural, and material resources as inert—ripe for extraction by a conqueror who can release their inexhaustible transactional benefits. Through this strategic lens, Russia’s invasion appears to be the latest in a longer line that implicates Germany, which today speculates on Ukraine’s material and territorial benefits while hoping to distance itself from the Nazis’ ruthless interest in controlling the ukrainische Kornkammer… Editorial Editors No Milk, No Love Asia Bazdyrieva The New Black Politics of the Cosmic Charles Mudede Alien Life as an Observer Gregor Mobius The Agency of (Planetary) Feeling Josephine Berry Elements of Gnosticism in Dialectical Materialism (Soviet Marxism) Boris Groys Film and the Toxic Politics of Waste: A Roundtable Hanna Baumann, Adriana Massidda, Bassem Saad, Elizabeth Saleh, and Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins Queer Temporalities and Protest Infrastructures in Belarus, 2020‹22: A Brief Museum Guide Aleksei Borisionok A Lumpen Line through the Fred Sandback Museum Mary Walling Blackburn, https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-127/?ref=unknown

It’s unclear how many people still alive today can remember feeling the strange, warm rains that fell over the riverside city of Pripyat on the Ukraine-Belarus border in late April 1986. Pripyat was built in 1970 to serve the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, dedicated to harnessing the mirnyy atom (“peaceful atom”) for the Soviet Union. For the past thirty-six years, Pripyat and a surrounding exclusion zone of inconsistent bounds bridging swaths of today’s Ukraine, Belarus, and a bit of Russia have been off limits to most human beings. In this issue of e-flux journal, Svitlana Matviyenko disagrees with Paul Virilio when he says that the Chernobyl disaster was “the original accident” of war and peace converging in technological “shipwreck modernity.” For Matviyenko, a Ukrainian scholar of cyberwar and nuclear colonialism, the full and non-accidental activation of the same nuclear-plant-turned-weapon happened this year, just a month ago… Editorial Editors Nuclear Cyberwar: From Energy Colonialism to Energy Terrorism Svitlana Matviyenko Putin: Restoration of Destruction Boris Groys in conversation with Liza Lazerson The West at War: On the Self-Enclosure of the Liberal Mind Boris Buden Pasolini and the Queer Revolution in Beirut Raed Rafei Personal Entropy Gregor Mobius The Petrified, Part 2 Tyler Coburn Plastic Media Heather Davis, https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-126/?ref=unknown

Chances are that in the last couple years, your life has been turned upside down by a pandemic, a war, an economic meltdown, or some combination of these. And you may feel that whatever you were lucky enough to avoid may already be on its way to you. As the coming years are sure to bring more uncertainty, maybe it’s time to prepare. Buy a small armory and move into an underground bunker? Blame foreigners or neighboring countries? Attack each other online? Let’s try instead to consider how our basic needs are met, as the individual and collective bodies that we are… Editorial Editors Planting and Becoming Autonomous farming collectives Porcupette Mary Walling Blackburn Forest Foodways in West Papua Sophie Chao Grain, Ink, and Stones: The Story of Ukrainian Hunger Lia Dostlieva We Will Lack Bread No Longer Alix Guibert Passing Blood, Consuming Memories: Making Fish Cutlets with Amma Mythri Jegathesan The Agrarian Mind Ou Ning A Turntable Enrique Del Risco What Sort of an Art Is Cookery? Are the Great Chefs All Dead? Martha Rosler Hanan and the People of the Soil Vivien Sansour A Meditation on Food Waste, Imperfection, and Accumulation Rachel Vaughn, https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-128/?ref=unknown

As a child I really wanted to be Ukrainian. Or so I told my parents. When they asked why, I told them it’s because Ukrainians are happy people who sing and dance, while Jews and Russians are sad. I’m not totally sure where I got this idea. We did spend a lot of time in Ukraine, in a city called Dnipro, where my mother is from and where a part of my family still lives. My father’s family lived in an impoverished small town near Moscow that they fled to from Lithuania during World War I. The part of the family that stayed in Lithuania was later massacred during World War II. Sadly, my mother’s family in Ukraine did not fare well during World War II either— their small house in Dnipro was destroyed by the Nazis in 1941. Only recently, my mother received a small and symbolic reparation of a few hundred euros from the German government, about seventy years later… Editorial Editors The Case Against the Russian Federation Oleksiy Radynski War and (Senile) Dementia Franco “Bifo” Berardi A Conversation on Art and Cosmotechnics, Part 2 Yuk Hui and Brian Kuan Wood Sans Parole: Reflections on Camera Lucida, Part 2 Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa Out of the Clear Erin Manning What We Talk about When We Talk about Crisis: A Conversation, Part 2 Yazan Khalili, Lara Khaldi, and Marwa Arsanios We Are Not As Gods: Terrestrial Horizons Liaisons The Petrified, Part 1 Tyler Coburn Anselm Berrigan, Three Books and a Poem David Buuck, Three Books and a Poem Laura Henriksen, Three Books and a Poem Maryam Parhizkar, Three Books and a Poem Danny Snelson, Three Books and a Poem Rac, https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-125/?ref=unknown

In this issue of e-flux journal, deep glances at the past hope to make sense of the present by diving into history’s original abysses and early promises. Mi You brings us a refreshingly constructive analysis of this year’s documenta fifteen, its curators, its intended organizational structure, and its audiences. Olga Olina, Hallie Ayres, and Anton Vidokle chart suppressed, banned, and otherwise disappeared languages in a resource that sprawls over geography and time from 1367 to today, showing an ongoing process of erasure and survival that corresponds with the rise of nation-states… Editorial Editors What Politics? What Aesthetics?: Reflections on documenta fifteen Mi You The Catastrophe Revealed: On Radiation and Revolution Sabu Kohso in conversation with Matt Peterson Homage to Bruno Latour Martin Guinard A Cursed Franchise: Reliving Colonial Nightmares Through Endless Sci-fi Remakes Leon Dische Becker and Cosmo Bjorkenheim Fascist Sunbathing and the Decolonization of Architectural Memory Nicola Perugini and Tommaso Fiscaletti Emotional Patterns in Art in Post-1949 China, Part II: Internality and Transcendence Su Wei Entangled Exiles Pelin Tan Muted Tongues: A Timeline of Suppressed Languages Compiled by Olga Olina, Hallie Ayres, and Anton Vidokle, https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-131/?ref=unknown

Viruses have lurked on the margins of cultural theory ever since Deleuze and Guattari suggested that “our viruses make us form a rhizome with other creatures.” According to Patricia Clough and Jasbir Puar, in the age of the internet, virality became “a form of communication and transmission across various domains: the biological, the cultural, the financial, the political, the linguistic, the technical, and computational.” In recent years, however, viral theory in the humanities and social sciences hasn’t kept pace with the scientific initiatives starting to peek into the virosphere’s vast unknown realms. This special issue of e-flux journal seeks to reckon with the multitude of invisible viral agents waiting to disrupt, detour, and reroute established modes of life… Editorial: Welcome to the Virosphere Eben Kirksey Kinship Is Anarchy Caitlin Berrigan Viral Things: Twelve Keywords Stephan Guttinger Contingent Contagion Sria Chatterjee Death to Death / Life by Cuts Mel Y. Chen The Viral Real Celia Lowe Viral Junk Rachel Vaughn Barebacking in Restaurants and Other Fantasies of the Virosphere Tim Dean Viruses Are More Like Cone Snails Than Hijackers Hannah Landecker Getting Lucky in Thailand: Or How to Coexist with Coronaviruses in Multispecies Contact Zones Eben Kirksey, Areeya Tivasuradej, Blake Palmer, Myint Than, Anne Atchara Changwong, Pietro Lo Casto, and Maya Kóvskaya, https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-130/?ref=unknown

Issue 123 of e-flux journal is guest-edited by the Critical Computation Bureau (CCB), a collective of researchers and writers working between technology and culture, computer science and information theory, aesthetics and politics. The members—Luciana Parisi, Ezekiel Dixon-Román, Tiziana Terranova, Oana Pârvan, and Brian D’Aquino—are situated in the US, the UK, and Southern Italy, and engage with networks spanning several continents to intervene in the techno-politics of racial capitalism and its recursive regeneration., https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-123/?ref=unknown

As we step out of our homes this September to go back to school, go back to work, go back to traveling, we might pause for a moment to look back into this home, this peculiar chamber of private life that, in one way or another, we couldn’t exit for some time. Perhaps the outside world appears strange, menacing, or deceitful. Maybe it was from staying inside for too long. But in New York, two hurricanes just passed through in two weeks, as faceless as a pandemic. Many emergency alerts told us to stay home, where we could continue to watch ..., https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-120/?ref=unknown

“But these, dear Indians, dear Hindus, are your leaders and your holy men. They are your mirrors and your death wish. Take a good look at them. Because they are not looking out for you.” These scathing words by Shuddhabrata Sengupta, from a piece published recently in India and reprinted in this issue of e-flux journal, condemn the country’s leaders for their role in fostering the conditions that led to the catastrophic number of coronavirus deaths the country is now suffering. It is not just India’s political leaders that are at fault, but also the holy men who advise them—spiritual ..., https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-118/?ref=unknown

It is now October, when the veils between worlds become thin. In this issue, there are human worlds and more-than-human worlds, and the university worlds, world wars, and art worlds that cross between them. Tam Donner plumbs the world we live in. Have you heard the one where universities give out honorary hoods to painters and warmongers alike? Take a look at the class pictures. Andreas Petrossiants follows the lead of Mount Etna, Europe’s oldest active volcano, where Pasolini may have seen a stage—or a screen—on which to feature the volcano’s ability to communize time, showing “linear, European time for ..., https://www.librarystack.org/e-flux-journal-121/?ref=unknown