examines the long noirish shadows the Cold War still casts over our current moment.
e-flux Index #1, 420 pp., full color, 20 x 25.5 cm, ISSN: 2997-1950, May 2024
Index #1
In making sense of the present moment, where systemic thought should prevail, monocausal explanations instead seem everywhere to abound. One language or narrative is enforced where many are required. Against this monoglottism, we can look for guidance to the radical ethos of Officer Ingravallo—the Roman detective with a philosophical bent who is the protagonist of Carlo Emilio Gadda’s classic modernist crime novel That Awful Mess on Via Merulena (1957). Early on in Gadda’s masterpiece,…
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March 2024
Archives of our own global destruction
With: Peter Sealy, Jacinda S. Tran, Manuel J. Borja-Villel, Vasıf Kortun, and Yuriko Furuhata
Living with Ghosts
With: Xinyue Liu, Boris Groys, Juliana Halpert, Zdenka Badovinac, Christian Nyampeta, and Feza Kayungu Ramazani
explores the domain of the many specters and ghosts (both friendly and malevolent) with whom we are forced to cohabit.
Becoming One’s Own Ancestor
With: Nicole Starosielski, Iago Bojczuk, Nkule Mabaso, Serubiri Moses, Pietro Bianchi, Sonia D’Alto, and Jennifer Piejko
gathers pieces that yogically stretch and expand the limits of the human body, of embodiment, and of “the human” itself.
The Perpetual Peace of the Graveyard
With: Sami Khatib, Oxana Timofeeva, Jenny Wu, Sandra Neugärtner, and Novuyo Moyo
addresses the myriad contemporary forms of psychic and physical violence, from wars fought in the name of “civilization” to the impossibility of actually depicting peace.
Tomorrow we will not work
With: Matteo Pasquinelli, Jason E. Smith, R.H. Lossin, Nathan Brown, Evan Calder Williams, and Christoph Menke
shuttles between the radical forms of go-slow, quiet quitting, and social refusal that comprise the decision to down tools.
The Nurse Log
With: Kim Förster, Stephanie Bailey, Laila Seewang, Aziba Ekio, and Michael Kurtz
purloins its title from silviculture forestry terminology to examine the manifold paradoxes of sustainability, ecology, wastage, and re-usage.
The Polycrisis
With: Dorota Jagoda Michalska, Judith Wilkinson, Kate Sutton, Artemy Magun, Paul Stephens, and Tausif Noor
groups together pieces which engage questions of cosmopolitanism, nationalism, and neocolonial territorialization.
Counter-citational Models
With: Octavian Esanu, Angela Harutyunyan, Olexii Kuchanskyi, David Morris, Valentin Diaconov, and Gracie Hadland
turns to examine the little nations of the museum, opening up onto larger questions of exhibition-making and curatorial strategy.
Benches Out of Snow
With: Katherine C. M. Adams, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Ikko Kobayashi, Fumi Kashimura, Jose Rosales, Jörg Heiser, Christ Mukenge, Lydia Schellhammer, and Sorana Munsya
collects texts that ask: How to overcome institutional inertia and sclerosis? In different ways, each of these contributions sets out to address the problems of the commons, of living together, and what remains of the public sphere.