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e-flux was started by artists in 1999. Online, e-flux spans numerous strains of critical discourse in art, architecture, film, and theory, and connects many of the most significant art institutions with audiences around the world.
Through a diverse collection of essays, "Sick Architecture" studies the aesthetic, spatial, cultural, and material histories of illness and health to illustrate how architecture and sickness are surprisingly interwoven: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204968... @eflux.bsky.social
Anchored by Federici’s analysis of unpaid labor and capitalist accumulation, this text interrogates the entanglement of artistic labor, class struggle, and autonomy, tracing cultural work as both a site of exploitation and resistance. By Stevphen Shukaitis in @eflux.bsky.social buff.ly/CVlcZP7
Totality and Feminist Life: Reading Silvia Federici on Lukács’s Aesthetics - Journal #155
Stevphen Shukaitis reads Silvia Federici’s PhD dissertation on György Lukács.
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@eflux.bsky.social reviewed CCS Bard’s Graduate Thesis Exhibition, where students present their thesis project after a year of work. Anthony Discenza writes, “the program’s dual emphasis on the critical and the professional can help foster deeper ways of engaging with the world.”
Calling cards: the 2025 Graduate Student Curated Exhibitions - Features - Education - e-flux
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For @eflux.bsky.social, I wrote about Jaleh Mansoor’s new book and Marx’s metaphor of “universal prostitution” www.e-flux.com/notes/678337...
Had pleasure of attending my brillant friend @sbwatter.bsky.social’s talk and curated screening @eflux.bsky.social last night. Fascinating work!
“For the communities of the [Indus River] delta… drawing a map for someone is a gesture of hospitality and generosity. Within the fleeting line of a river, someone opens up their world, their knowledge, their memories.” Shahana Rajani in conversation with Nick Axel @eflux.bsky.social
New Silk Roads - Shahana Rajani - The Fleeting Line of a River
Colonial maps and hydraulic technologies attempted to reorganize these mobile, water landscapes into a propertied and regulated geography. But in this soaking ecology, quite literally, the logic of th...
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My second and final dispatch from Cannes is out today on @eflux.bsky.social This time on Ari Aster,Spike Lee, Christian Petzold, Fatima Hassouna, the Tabor Collective, Jafar Panahi, Kleber Mendonça Filho and Bi Gan. See you next year Cannes. You’ve been good this time www.e-flux.com/notes/673042...
Cannes 2025 Dispatch, Pt. 2 - Notes - e-flux
Pietro Bianchi reflects on the unlikely endurance of the image, in the second of two reports from Cannes 2025.
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I'm late in noticing this, but last month, @eflux.bsky.social published Satyajit Ray's 1965 essay, Film Making, which discusses his difficulties in making early films, his process, and his experiences with balancing budget and artistic vision. www.e-flux.com/notes/667654...
Satyajit Ray on filmmaking - Notes - e-flux
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My first dispatch from Cannes is out today on @eflux.bsky.social : some initial reflections on the festival, along with thoughts on Mascha Schilinski’s and Pedro Pinho’s films. So far, so good but more to come early next week www.e-flux.com/notes/671976...
Cannes 2025 Dispatch, Pt. 1 - Notes - e-flux
Pietro Bianchi reflects on the “festival film,” in the first of two reports from Cannes 2025.
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"All minimal music is about time, and other kinds of music are perhaps less about time than minimal music." - Alice Notley in conversation with Daniel Muzyczuk via @eflux.bsky.social www.e-flux.com/journal/144/...
a voice in my brain rolled up on skeins in cells - Journal #144
Alice Notley interviewed by curator Daniel Muzyczuk.
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I was asked to write about labor relations in score making for @eflux.bsky.social and ended up in some zones I hadn’t anticipated. Really like what I wrote here, hope you enjoy it: www.e-flux.com/journal/154/...
The Composer Keeps the Score: Writing Music, Sharing Power, Hearing Possibility - Journal #154
Sarah Hennies shares her journey to becoming a composer of experimental music.
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"For Stalder, the (diagrammatic) arrow is the generator of architecture: it doesn’t mimic movement, but creates the conditions for it." Isabelle Bucklow reviews "On Arrows" for @eflux.bsky.social: www.e-flux.com/criticism/66... #architecture
Excited to have an excerpt from Jasper Bernes's excellent forthcoming book in e-flux journal. Read it here: www.e-flux.com/journal/153/...
The Test of Communism - Journal #153
Jasper Bernes argues that Marx’s value theory offers a method by which certain socialist proposals can be put to the test.
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FOR AN ECOLOGY OF IMAGES Peter Szendy via @eflux.bsky.social Can we—must we—put under the sign of an ecology of images our effort to exit the sphere of an anthropocentric iconomy, a portmanteau of “icon” and “economy? www.e-flux.com/notes/666036...
For An Ecology of Images - Notes - e-flux
An excerpt from Peter Szendy’s For An Ecology of Images, published by Verso.
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The films made by François Pain at La Borde psychiatric clinic—alongside Félix Guattari, among others—offer a more nuanced and ultimately more useful history of a much-mythologised experiment than the conventional hagiographies, writes Nicholas Gamso. www.e-flux.com/criticism/66...
Nicholas Gamso on François Pain - Criticism - e-flux
In 1966, a young medical student named François Pain won an internship at the experimental Clinique de La Borde, outside the town of Cour-Cheverny
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Today on @eflux.bsky.social Notes I wrote about “Story of a Communist,” the first of three volumes of Toni Negri’s autobiography that has just been published in English. It is also a tribute, a little over a year after his passing. Viva Toni! www.e-flux.com/notes/663953...
In Praise of a Dinosaur: Toni Negri - Notes - e-flux
Pietro Bianchi reviews the first volume of Antonio Negri’s autobiography.
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Board member Natasha Marie Llorens in E-flux about the merger and state of affairs in Sweden
Political Capture of the Arts in Sweden - Notes - e-flux
Natasha Marie Llorens on the right-wing effort to control the arts sector in Sweden.
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If art history is “ghost stories for grown-ups,” as Aby Warburg claims, then the most enduring works of art might be those that cannot easily be recuperated into our existing versions of reality, write the editors of e-flux Criticism. www.e-flux.com/criticism/66...
EDITORS' LETTER: - Criticism - e-flux
Aby Warburg famously described art history as “ghost stories for grown-ups.”
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Went to Kyiv for @eflux.bsky.social. People are tired, but the art is good. www.e-flux.com/criticism/66...
Oliver Basciano on “PinchukArtCentre Prize 2025” - Criticism - e-flux
Everyone I meet in Kyiv is tired. Physically tired. Emotionally tired. Tired from the shrill loud whirl of the air raid app forcing them from sleep
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Sven's essay in the most recent e-flux is a really sharp historicization and appraisal of the various ways the concept of "forms of life" have been taken up. Generatively, he then discusses the censorship of and attacks on Palestinian solidarity in Germany: www.e-flux.com/journal/152/...
Forms of Strife - Journal #152
Sven Lütticken traces the history and political potency of the concept of “forms of life.”
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Review of Finance Aesthetics Ib e-flux www.e-flux.com/notes/661679... Thanks to Andreas Petrossiants for reading and reviewing!
Review of Finance Aesthetics: A Critical Glossary - Notes - e-flux
Andreas Petrossiants reviews a new edited collection from Goldsmiths Press on the aesthetic dimensions of financialization.
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Here's the first review of Volume 3 of the English edition of Peter Weiss's epic "The Aesthetics of Resistance." Writing in @eflux.bsky.social , Tom Allen praises the translation by Joel Scott.
On Peter Weiss’s The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume III - Notes - e-flux
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I wrote for e-flux! About the inevitable need for building code in space www.e-flux.com/architecture...
Off-Earth - Fred Scharmen - Code Space
Architecture and infrastructure mediate our relationship with pre-existing environments. When the environment in question is as hostile as outer space, there is no existence possible without that medi...
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The recording of my talk at @eflux.bsky.social is now online. If you want the misfortune of hearing me rambling about psychoanalysis, the optical unconscious, the gaze and the digital image for more than an hour, here is your chance. vimeo.com/1058822880/7...
2/27/25 - Pietro Bianchi
This is "2/27/25 - Pietro Bianchi" by e-flux on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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Disinheriting the Violence of Colonial Modernity: Art, Exhibition-Making, and Infra/Intra-structural Critique by KJ Abudu www.e-flux.com/journal/152/... @eflux.bsky.social
Disinheriting the Violence of Colonial Modernity: Art, Exhibition-Making, and Infra/Intra-structural Critique - Journal #152
KJ Abudu examines the anti-colonial curating of Okwui Enwezor.
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I've got a new essay out today in @eflux.bsky.social on the occasion of T.J. Clark's new book. I write about "what happens in paint," about art and politics, Trump, the 'mad sublimity' of the society of the spectacle in fascist overdrive, and the abolition of art. www.e-flux.com/notes/660176...
Whose Passions? On T. J. Clark’s Those Passions: On Art and Politics - Notes - e-flux
Dominique Routhier reviews T. J. Clark’s new essay collection Those Passions: On Art and Politics.
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"This is not an attempt to pin Johnson down, but a rich portrait shaped by his own repeated self-reinventions." @eflux.bsky.social reviews Ellen Levy's beautifully illustrated volume, "A Book About Ray":
Francesca Wade on “A Book about Ray” - Criticism - e-flux
I found myself in the Ray Johnson archive by accident. Last December, I attended a screening of How to Draw a Bunny (2002), Andrew L. Moor
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fragments from Sergei Eisenstein's Capital Diaries just came out on e-flux film notes! translated by Michael Kunichika, with a brief intro by Michael and me. www.e-flux.com/notes/648016...
Sergei Eisenstein's notes as an attempt to develop his film based on Das Kapital. - Notes - e-flux
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