As August winds to a close, so does your chance to purchase our e-flux Books Summer Bundle. Featuring Wonderflux: A Decade of e-flux journal (2023), Elizabeth A. Povinelli’s Routes/Worlds (2022), and The Internet Does Not Exist (2015), this offer is available via e-flux Shop until September 10.
With the new academic calendar fast approaching, we’re thrilled to offer a new Back to School Bundle, available for a limited time. This bundle includes Accumulation: The Art, Architecture, and Media of Climate Change (2022), Luis Camnitzer’s One Number Is Worth One Word (2020), and Benjamin H. Bratton’s Dispute Plan to Prevent Future Luxury Constitution (2015). Normally valued at 75 USD, you can add these three titles to your bedside stack for 45 USD.
The current epoch is one of accumulation: not only of capital but also of raw, often unruly material, from plastic in the ocean and carbon in the atmosphere to people, buildings, and cities. Alongside this material growth, image-making practices embedded within the fields of art and architecture have proven to be fertile, mobile, and capacious. Images of accumulation help open up the climate to cultural inquiry and political mobilization and have formed a cultural infrastructure focused on the relationships between humans, other species, and their environments. The essays in Accumulation address this cultural infrastructure and the methodological challenges of its analysis.
One Number Is Worth One Word gathers more than six decades of writing by influential artist and teacher Luis Camnitzer that interrogates the power structures inherent to the practice of art at the same time as they explore its liberating potential. Working across such mediums as printmaking, sculpture, language, and installations, Camnitzer’s work investigates how power is exercised and can be challenged in society. An influential teacher, over the six decades covered by this volume, he has interrogated the power structures inherent to the practice of art at the same time as he explores its liberating potential. Many of these texts are published for the first time. The book offers a singularly authoritative—yet also anti-authoritative—gathering of a life’s work in art, education, and activism.
Equal parts Borges, Burroughs, Baudrillard, and Black Ops, Dispute Plan to Prevent Future Luxury Constitution charts a treacherous landscape filled with paranoid master plans, failed schemes, and dubious histories. Benjamin H. Bratton’s kaleidoscopic theory-fiction links the utopian fantasies of political violence with the equally utopian programs of security and control. Both rely on all manner of doubles, models, gimmicks, ruses, prototypes, and shockandawe campaigns to realize their propagandas of the deed, threat, and image. Blurring reality and delusion, they collaborate on a literally psychotic politics of architecture.
