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The Anamorphic Politics of Climate Change
Politics in the Anthropocene is a matter of perspective: we can’t look at climate change directly. Relying on multiple disparate measurements, we look for patterns and estimate probabilities. We see in...
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The Coming Global Civil War: Is There Any Way Out?
Necro-Economy Are we heading into the Third World War? Yes and no: war has been with us for the past fifteen years, it promises to be with us for a long time, and it threatens to destroy the last...
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The choice of cover image for this issue of e-flux journal came down to two photos: a decrepit military airplane lingering in a remote gray field, evoking long forgotten battles of a distant war; and a...
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The Equalizer
Continued from “Neoliberalism and the New Afro-Pessimism: Djibril Diop Mambéty’s Hyènes” Let’s return to this galaxy, this solar system, this planet—indeed, the continent, Africa, that gave birth to an...
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The Vectoralist Class, Part Two
Continued from “The Vectoralist Class” In the first part of this essay I presented the history of commodity production as passing through three overlapping stages, each of which entailed a bifurcation...
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The Eternal Hunt for the Red Man
The dramatic events in Russia and Ukraine over the past two years have begun a new phase in the struggle over the legacy of communism in the post-Soviet space. As the concrete features of “real...
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From the Anxiety of Participation to the Process of De-Internationalization
It was not long ago that the Western art system was an object of intense focus and emulation throughout China. Beginning with the enthusiastic introduction of Western philosophical writings and...
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A Farewell to Totality
In the introduction to Formalism and Historicity, a compilation of essays originally published between 1977 and 1996, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh suggests that these should be read from the perspective of...
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A Tank on a Pedestal: Museums in an Age of Planetary Civil War
I love history.But history doesn’t love me back,Whenever I call her I get her answering machine.She says: “Insert logo here.” A tank on a pedestal. Fumes are rising from the engine. A Soviet battle...
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Art has something to teach Marxism about the reasons for its great historical failure to understand nationalism, because art proceeds with the understanding that the materiality of representation is...
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