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Bloomsbury Olympic
As the 2012 London Olympics looms, construction and education – two poles of an economy of despair – are to meet in East London. Richard B draws out the unlikely connections in-the-making between...
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Something out of the Nazis?
The sci-fi space Nazis film Iron Sky is about to be released across Europe. Meanwhile, across Europe capital continues with its waves of cuts. 'From now on the battle for earth is going to get Nazi',...
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Ment Journal
Dates: Monday, 7 May, 2012 to Friday, 7 September, 2012External Link: http://www.journalment.orgAdvert Image: carolineheron_1.gif
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Orgy of the Non/Self
Yayoi Kusama’s current Tate Modern retrospective provokes Josephine Berry Slater to join the dots of the artist’s agonising and ecstatic constellation of obliteration and multiplication Yayoi Kusama...
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Introduction to Antiphilosophy
According to the art critic and theorist Boris Groys, philosophy may have met its match in a counter-tradition of modern ‘antiphilosophy.’ Introduction to Antiphilosophy marshals such thinkers as...
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Geraldine Goat – The Hard Way To Enlightenment
Stephan Dillemuth's film installation, The Hard Way to Enlightenment, deployed a live goat in an immanent critique of privatisation and its implications for art, research and education. Geraldine has...
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Delusions of Revolt: notes on the limits of aesthetic praxis
Anton Vidokle likes to think of himself as an artist and his various projects, which primarily fall under the umbrella of the e-flux enterprise, as his (among collaborators) works of art. The...
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Cybernetic Magic
Following two exhibitions of Suzanne Treister’s multimedia project HEXEN2.0 at the Science Museum and Work Gallery this Spring, cybernetic historian Andrew Pickering delves deeper into the work’s...
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Blackdog Pickering Deal
Dates: Thursday, 24 May, 2012 to Tuesday, 24 July, 2012External Link: http://blackdogonline.com/all-books/hexen2.0.htmlAdvert Image: HEXEN2-0.gif
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The Last Time Machine
The west used to dream of travel to the future, but since the ’70s all roads seem to lead to either dystopia or nostalgia for the past. Robert Barry reviews the fate of the time machine through a...
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The Lessons of 2011: Three Theses on Organisation
Moving beyond the conceptual polarisation of tight-knit vanguardist parties and loose-tie virtual networks, Rodrigo Nunes sifts the residue of last year’s wave of revolts to produce a more nuanced...
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Unhoming the Homely
Clare Butcher reviews Casco's ambitious two year and ongoing project, the Grand Domestic Revolution Having emerged as a response to Utrecht Manifest in 2008, the Grand Domestic Revolution, (GDR)...
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MIT June 2012
Dates: Tuesday, 26 June, 2012 to Tuesday, 26 February, 2013External Link: http://mitpress.mit.edu/main/home/default.aspAdvert Image: carolineheron_3.gif
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From the Cult of the People to the Cult of Rancière
A radical social historian as well as philosopher, Jacques Rancière has spent many years rescuing vivid fragments of proletarian life and thought from the vested interests that claim to speak for...
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The Missing Factory
In the early 1970s, at the meeting point of workplace occupations and critical film-making, 20th century art's attraction to the factory reached a representational impasse. Taking up Harun Farocki’s...
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The Gender Rift in Communisation
In a contested 'swerve' in debates around communisation, issues of gender, class and race are coming to the fore. Reviewing key texts in this debate, P. Valentine discusses the material basis of the...
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Ex Nihilo
Quentin Meillassoux's new book revisits a rather well-worn modernist artefact, Stéphane Mallarmé's epic poem A Throw of Dice Will Never Abolish Chance. Whilst the continental philosopher proposes to...
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Melody and Melancholy
In an appreciation of Worcestershire goths, And Also The Trees, Eugene Thacker digs the 'unconditional sadness' which connects their music to a melancholy continnuum stretching back to the 17th century...
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JEXUS
In this text John Russell joins up the 'O's between the ecstatic mouth and the anus to create a tunnel connecting web porn, philosophy and revolutionary poetry It may seem ridiculous to claim that...
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