38 documents
e-flux Criticism
Posted: July 31, 2019
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Language & Linguistics, Religion & Spirituality
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Temporality
e-flux Criticism
Posted: October 4, 2017
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Photography, Utopia
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Memory, Soviet Union, Affect, Video Art
e-flux Criticism
Posted: June 29, 2017
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Religion & Spirituality, Technology
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Animals, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Modernity, Folklore & Tradition, Ghosts & Spirits
e-flux Criticism
Posted: January 25, 2017
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Philosophy
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Cybernetics, Entropy, Ontology
# 76
Male Fantasies: The Sequel(s)
Ana Teixeira Pinto
“How could the masses be made to desire their own repression?” was the question Wilhelm Reich famously asked in the wake of the Reichstagsbrandverordnung (Reichstag Fire Decree, February 28, 1933), which suspended the civil rights protections afforded by the Weimar Republic’s democratic constitution. 1 Hitler had been appointed chancellor on January 30, 1933 and Reich was trying to grapple with the fact that the German people had apparently chosen the authoritarian politics promoted by…
e-flux Journal
Posted: October 5, 2016
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Fascism, Sexuality & Eroticism, Nationalism, Gender, Psychology & Psychoanalysis
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Revolution
e-flux Criticism
Posted: July 29, 2016
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Colonialism & Imperialism
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Archeology, Middle East
e-flux Criticism
Posted: April 11, 2016
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Sexuality & Eroticism, Film
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Animals, Video Art
# 72
Enantiomorphs in Hyperspace: Living and Dying on the Fourth Dimension
Ana Teixeira Pinto
We are sometimes given a vagina—and that designates a “woman”—virgin, bride, etc.—and sometimes a penis—and that indicates a “man”—bachelor, groom, etc. This physiological accident was never anything more than the effect of an assuredly ironic causality: the laws of Euclidian geometry. In a four-dimensional study … vagina and penis, like an anamorphic illusion, would immediately lose all distinctive character. It is the same object that we would sometimes see as “male” and sometimes as…
e-flux Journal
Posted: April 1, 2016
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Philosophy, Gender, Sexuality & Eroticism
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Science
e-flux Criticism
Posted: January 26, 2016
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Photography, Communism
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Death, Authoritarianism, Revolution
e-flux Criticism
Posted: December 3, 2015
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Aesthetics, Labor & Work, War & Conflict
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Video Art, Freeports, Post-Fordism, Money & Finance
e-flux Criticism
Posted: November 24, 2015
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Painting
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Folklore & Tradition, Figurative Painting
# 67
Death Wall: Extinction, Entropy, Singularity
Ana Teixeira Pinto
In 1796, upon observing a vast array of elephant fossils, paleontologist George Cuvier noticed a puzzling fact: the fossilized mammoths of Europe and Siberia were different from living elephant species. None of the specimens in his collection corresponded to present-day African or Indian exemplars; they were all remains of fauna now extinct. At length, it dawned on him that another world might have preceded our own, a world whose existence had suddenly come to a halt, possibly “destroyed by…
e-flux Journal
Posted: November 1, 2015
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Nature & Ecology, Technology
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Biology, Anthropocene, Apocalypse , Evolution, Artificial intelligence, Death
e-flux Criticism
Posted: September 7, 2015
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Religion & Spirituality
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Biennials, The Occult & Mysticism, Science, Consciousness & Cognition, Object-Oriented Philosophies, Speculative Realism
e-flux Criticism
Posted: July 14, 2015
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Data & Information
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Systems Theory, Cybernetics
e-flux Criticism
Posted: June 10, 2015
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Anthropology & Ethnography, Colonialism & Imperialism, Psychology & Psychoanalysis
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Africa
# 65
Turk, Toaster, Task Rabbit
Julieta Aranda and Ana Teixeira Pinto
This is a text about the utopia of a frictionless space defined by perfect reception and its discontents.
In the late eighteenth century a chess-playing automaton toured the courts of Europe. Known as the “Mechanical Turk,” the automaton defeated Napoleon and Benjamin Franklin before being exposed as a hoax: hiding in its innards, a human operator was, in fact, moving the chess pieces. In a way, this was a reverse Turing test, predating Turing: a kind of labor in which it is required…
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 1, 2015
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Labor & Work, Economy, Technology, Internet
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Automation, Representation
e-flux Criticism
Posted: December 22, 2014
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Music, Dance
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Animism, Object-Oriented Philosophies, Automation
e-flux Criticism
Posted: July 31, 2014
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Modernism, Film
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Ontology , Object-Oriented Philosophies, Collage, Animals
e-flux Criticism
Posted: June 2, 2014
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Film, Image
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Documentary, Historicity & Historiography, Representation, Fiction, Realism, Computer-Generated Art, Arab Spring
e-flux Criticism
Posted: April 10, 2014
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Film
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Pop Art, Dada, Collage, United Kingdom, Mass Media & Entertainment, Class, Spectacle
e-flux Criticism
Posted: January 31, 2014
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Psychology & Psychoanalysis
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Surrealism, Violence, Algorithms
e-flux Criticism
Posted: July 10, 2013
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Data & Information, Language & Linguistics
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Cybernetics
# 45
The Whole Earth: In Conversation with Diedrich Diederichsen and Anselm Franke
Ana Teixeira Pinto
“The Whole Earth,” whose first iteration can be seen at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, is a project by Diedrich Diederichsen and Anselm Franke that takes as its point of departure the Whole Earth Catalog by Stewart Brand. In 1966, Brand initiated a campaign for the release of satellite images of earth that he believed NASA possessed, and which he felt would be a powerful icon for the notion of a shared human experience and destiny. One such image graced the cover of the catalog…
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 1, 2013
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Technology, Psychology & Psychoanalysis, Nature & Ecology
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Cybernetics, Subcultures & Countercultures, Planet Earth , Drugs & Psychedelia, Cold War, Outer Space
e-flux Criticism
Posted: February 25, 2013
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Language & Linguistics, Sculpture, Painting
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Video Art
# 41
In Memory of Aaron Swartz
Ana Teixeira Pinto
Aaron Swartz killed himself on Friday, January 11 in New York City. He was twenty-six years old. In his family’s official statement, they say:
Aaron’s death is not simply a personal tragedy. It is the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach. Decisions made by officials in the Massachusetts US Attorney’s office and at MIT contributed to his death. The US Attorney’s office pursued an exceptionally harsh array of charges, carrying…
e-flux Journal
Posted: January 1, 2013
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Internet
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Law & Justice, Memorials & Obituaries
e-flux Criticism
Posted: November 25, 2012
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Labor & Work
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Public Art, Citizenship, Art Collecting , Privatization, Middle East, Wealth & Inequality
e-flux Criticism
Posted: September 18, 2012
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Modernism, Labor & Work, Gender
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Privatization, Ontology , Craft, Public Space
e-flux Criticism
Posted: June 10, 2012
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War & Conflict, Nature & Ecology
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Ruins, Arte Povera, Historicity & Historiography, Craft, Accidents & Disasters, Temporality
e-flux Criticism
Posted: April 27, 2012
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Futurism , Censorship, Socially Engaged Art, Occupy, Art Activism, Rituals & Celebrations
e-flux Criticism
Posted: January 13, 2012
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Painting
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Fiction, Retrospective, Humor & Comedy, Germany, Death