5 documents
Psychoanalytical Notes from Russia during the Ukraine War
Gleb Napreenko
e-flux Notes
Posted: September 20, 2022
Category
Psychology & Psychoanalysis, War & Conflict
Subjects
Russia, Ukraine, Contemporary Clinic
# 70
A Farewell to Totality
Gleb Napreenko
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 contemporary art. Acknowledging the current crisis provoked by the decline of criticism’s historical function, Buchloh reveals that the spectrum inhabited by what he considers to be meaningful, radically reflexive, and critical art has become extremely narrow. Such art is situated on the verge…
e-flux Journal
Posted: February 1, 2016
Category
Contemporary Art, Marxism
Subjects
Art Criticism
e-flux Criticism
Posted: June 29, 2014
Category
LGBTQ+, Ideology
Subjects
Identity Politics, Russia
# 55
Back in the USSR?
Gleb Napreenko
Ever since Russia annexed Crimea and a quick clampdown started at home, the mass media, social media, and blogs have all been saying one thing: it’s back to the USSR. The Olympics at Sochi are like Moscow in 1980, the trials of the May 6 protesters or of Pussy Riot like the show trials of 1937, and Russia’s invasion of Crimea is the 1968 Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia all over again. Like all metaphors, such analogies are political judgements, usually informed by liberal images of the…
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 1, 2014
Category
War & Conflict, Contemporary Art
Subjects
Russia, Media Critique, Propaganda, Soviet Union
# 49
On the Format of the Divine
Gleb Napreenko
Legal proceedings, sermons, and the creative industries; the universal applicability of law, the consensus of the flock, and corporate ethics. All of them require that you forget or repress something, that you pay a price for the (im)possibility of joining the fold. But what if you are in a court of law, or maybe listening to a sermon, or sitting at an office, and you can’t afford the fee? You start to suspect that the silent majority around you has already paid up, that they have become one…
e-flux Journal
Posted: November 1, 2013
Category
Religion & Spirituality, Education
Subjects
Figurative Painting, Russia