6 documents
# 103
Ask Before You Bite
Elvia Wilk
Mutual love is often thought of as mutual recognition: I see you for who you are and you see me back. But recognition is inevitably also a naming, a fixing, a pinning down. In order to recognize, you have to categorize, and categories are notoriously inflexible. Recognition, if understood as a projection that disallows the evolution of self and identity, becomes restrictive rather than liberating. However inadvertently, the recognition required for mutual love can easily slip into a form of control.
e-flux Journal
Posted: October 1, 2019
Category
Sexuality & Eroticism
Subjects
Love, Intimacy, Subcultures & Countercultures, Games & Play, Scandinavia
# 92
The Word Made Fresh: Mystical Encounter and the New Weird Divine
Elvia Wilk
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A biologist enters mysterious territory on a mission to comprehend the incomprehensible. Together with three colleagues—an anthropologist, a psychologist, and a surveyor—she crosses an imperceptible border into a region known as Area X. They are the twelfth expedition to cross the border. They are all women.
Jeff VanderMeer charts Area X’s impossible terrain in his Southern Reach trilogy. The first book of the series, Annihilation , flirts with various genre conventions but…
e-flux Journal
Posted: June 19, 2018
Category
Literature, Religion & Spirituality, Gender, Nature & Ecology
Subjects
The Occult & Mysticism
Positions
Is Ornamenting Solar Panels a Crime?
Elvia Wilk
Architecture Essay
Posted: April 9, 2018
Category
Technology, Aesthetics
Subjects
Science Fiction, Dystopia, Energy, Futurism
e-flux Criticism
Posted: December 21, 2016
Category
Data & Information, Technology
Subjects
Virtual & Augmented Reality, Militarization
# 74
The Artist-in-Consultance: Welcome to the New Management
Elvia Wilk
“Spade with two handles”—
To fit the task at hand:
There can be no “private” industry. 1
Joseph Beuys told his students: “You cannot wait for an ideal situation. You cannot wait for a tool without blood on it.” This was not to say a compromised tool can be made to serve all interests, but that a compromised tool can be weaponized to dismantle any interests. For art to integrate with society does not mean that art should serve the interests of society. Neither does it mean…
e-flux Journal
Posted: June 1, 2016
Category
Labor & Work, Management & Bureaucracy, Economy
Subjects
Art Activism
e-flux Criticism
Posted: December 16, 2015
Category
Nature & Ecology
Subjects
Land Art, Water & The Sea, Energy