8 documents
e-flux Criticism
Posted: November 23, 2019
Category
Architecture, Indigenous Issues & Indigeneity
Subjects
Environment, Climate change, Art Activism, Global South, Law & Justice
e-flux Criticism
Posted: March 18, 2019
Category
Migration & Immigration, Colonialism & Imperialism, Performance
Subjects
Biennials, Southeast Asia
e-flux Criticism
Posted: November 13, 2017
Category
Colonialism & Imperialism, Indigenous Issues & Indigeneity, Religion & Spirituality
Subjects
Southeast Asia, Biennials, Art Activism, Historicity & Historiography
e-flux Criticism
Posted: March 16, 2017
Category
Religion & Spirituality, Indigenous Issues & Indigeneity
Subjects
Middle East, Institutional Critique, Infrastructure
e-flux Criticism
Posted: October 12, 2016
Category
Colonialism & Imperialism, War & Conflict, Gender
Subjects
Orientalism, Violence, Representation, Middle East
e-flux Criticism
Posted: November 23, 2015
Category
Museums
Subjects
Art Collecting , Wealth & Inequality, Art Market
e-flux Criticism
Posted: October 3, 2014
Category
Film, Literature, Drawing
Subjects
Portraits, Fiction, Representation
# 51
Return of the Gothic: Digital Anxiety in the Domestic Sphere
Melissa Gronlund
When telegraph lines were first installed in the US and Europe in the mid-1800s, people complained of sightings of ghosts traveling along the wires. In 1848, two sisters in a village near Rochester, New York claimed that rapping coming from the floorboards of their bedroom were Morse-code messages from the dead. Telephones and electric machines were viewed with suspicion, and theater performances often portrayed them as vessels of magical powers. Such supernatural interpretations of emerging…
e-flux Journal
Posted: January 1, 2014
Category
Literature, Contemporary Art, Technology
Subjects
Fiction, Computer-Generated Art, Video Art