Ben Eastham Read Bio Collapse
Ben Eastham is a writer and editor based in Athens and London. He is co-founder of the London-based literary magazine The White Review and the editor of books on artists and poets including Stephen Spender, Fabio Mauri, and Luis Camnitzer. His writing on art and literature is widely published, and he was previously an editor at ArtReview and an associate editor at Documenta 14. His second book, The Imaginary Museum, a speculative fiction about art and memory, was published by Harper Collins in 2020. He is Editor-in-Chief of e-flux Criticism.
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It is tempting to associate stargazing with imaginative escapism. With sheer scale and implacable beauty, the cosmos shows manifest disinterest in human affairs. Here is something, we take comfort in thinking, that we cannot possibly fuck up. But this division between our world and the one beyond is dangerous: colonizers said similar things about the “new world.” Like all such divisions, it’s also patently absurd.
New York reception for 14th Shanghai Biennale: Cosmos Cinema
