25 documents
Bilal Khbeiz
Bilal Khbeiz
e-flux Notes
The body in war mode
e-flux Announcement
Posted: April 20, 2022
Institution
Kunsthalle Wien
… of bread, wine, cars, security and peace
e-flux Announcement
Posted: February 20, 2020
Category
Capitalism
Subjects
Health & Disease, Everyday Life
Institution
e-flux Announcement
Posted: September 9, 2014
Institution
e-flux Announcement
Posted: September 9, 2014
Institution
# 57
The Dead Afghani before the Camera and before Death
Bilal Khbeiz
It seems that the pictures we watched on TV about the American war in Afghanistan are in great need of comment. These images needed the help of language in order to speak, and yet they also couldn’t create their own language. To understand these images, we had to go back to our most primal instincts to say: this is the corpse of a child younger than four years old; that is a destroyed house; these are villagers and farmers standing at the ruins of their clay houses. Without these comments,…
e-flux Journal
Posted: September 1, 2014
Category
War & Conflict, Image
Subjects
Media Critique, Violence, Middle East, Gulf War
e-flux journal
e-flux journal issue 38 out now: “Structural Violence”
e-flux Announcement
Posted: October 10, 2012
Institution
e-flux journal
e-flux journal issue 38:“Structural Violence”
e-flux Announcement
Posted: October 10, 2012
Institution
# 38
In Praise of Books: When Authorities Close a Prison, They Foil a Revolution!
Bilal Khbeiz
People these days lament young people’s disdain for reading and, by extension, writing. Quite a few of today’s young people secretly indulge in writing poetry that will never be published, probably because they seek distraction elsewhere. It seems that in the West, and especially in America, all the best-selling authors are retired celebrities. The list of retirees who write is long, starting with politicians and continuing with businessmen, economists, and the wives of famous baseball…
e-flux Journal
Posted: October 1, 2012
Category
Literature
Subjects
Publishing, Revolution
# 35
Dubai: A City Manufactured by Curiosity
Bilal Khbeiz
It is hard to distinguish individuals in a crowd. Citizens of the Gulf states appear to the visitor as crowds, with their identities as individuals momentarily suspended. Such a crowd is slightly different from the kind described by Elias Canetti. This is a crowd perceived as such by a visitor conscious of his individuality against the multitude. The crowd exerts no control over this visitor, nor does it repress his personality. Rather, this visitor exerts a form of authority—engaging in an…
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 1, 2012
Category
Migration & Immigration
Subjects
Middle East, Wealth & Inequality, Citizenship, Oil
# 34
Escaping From Exile by Belonging to an Exiled Land
Bilal Khbeiz
A complicated chain of events landed me in Los Angeles, on the west coast of the USA. It is a wonderful city, fascinated by itself to the point of being oblivious to what occurs outside of it. This is not the ideal place to be exiled to.
When forced to leave one’s home, an exile’s continuing struggle shapes him into a soldier—and a soldier can do little more than survive while he waits for the next battle, as he is less than likely to win the war. Los Angeles is an ideal place for…
e-flux Journal
Posted: April 1, 2012
Category
Migration & Immigration, War & Conflict
Subjects
Middle East, USA, Lebanon, State & Government, Citizenship
Bilal Khbeiz at MoMA PS1
Bilal Khbeiz and Jon Rich
e-flux Events
Posted: January 29, 2012
Category
Migration & Immigration
e-flux
e-flux journal issue #16
e-flux Announcement
Posted: May 24, 2010
Institution
e-flux journal
e-flux journal issue #16 – available now
e-flux Announcement
Posted: May 14, 2010
Institution
# 16
Michael Jackson Died for No Reason (and the Vampire that is His Life)
Bilal Khbeiz
July 2009
Many American media outlets considered the possibility that the King of Pop’s death could have been a media stunt designed to promote the “comeback” concert scheduled for this summer in London. But what could have been a media stunt later became a possible homicide. In order to prevent further speculation, the media went to work correlating and double-checking the putative cause of death. Few went so far as to accuse Michael Jackson’s personal doctor of causing his patient’s…
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 1, 2010
Category
Image
Subjects
Pop Culture, Mass Media & Entertainment, Media Critique, Middle East
e-flux journal
e-flux journal issue #8 out now
e-flux Announcement
Posted: September 9, 2009
Institution
# 08
Modernity’s Obsession with Systems of Preservation
Bilal Khbeiz
The Products of Fragility
Modernity, the mother of many democracies, has given a great deal of attention to developing means of preservation and conservation. It has taught us to care for all that is frail and delicate. Charles Baudelaire, speaking about one of his contemporaries, the photographer Miron, said: “He photographed Paris because it is ephemeral.” 1 Perhaps then it should come as no surprise that such an image, itself made up of only smooth paper and some ink, outlasts the…
e-flux Journal
Posted: September 1, 2009
Category
Education, Image
Subjects
Modernity, Libraries & Archives, Childhood & Youth
e-flux Announcement
Posted: November 13, 2008
Institution
University of Tehran
ETHNIC MARKETING
e-flux Announcement
Posted: April 12, 2006
Institution
10 Essays
Compiled byCarlos Kong
With:
Etel Adnan, Asiya Wadud, Antke Engel, Ana Ofak, Marion von Osten, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Andrew Herscher, Justin McGuirk, Bilal Khbeiz, Manuela Bojadžijev, Serhat Karakayalı
e-flux Reader
Category
Labor & Work, Technology
Subjects
Housing & Real Estate, Immaterial Labor, Experimental Film, History
8 Essays
Compiled byGeli Mademli
With:
Irmgard Emmelhainz, Metahaven, iLiana Fokianaki, Bilal Khbeiz, Jorge Otero-Pailos, James T. Hong, Suzana Milevska, Doreen Mende
e-flux Reader
Category
Technology
Subjects
History, Libraries & Archives, Ontology
10 Essays
Compiled byJareh Das
With:
Ho Rui An, Nathan Lee, Aria Dean, Bilal Khbeiz, Lee Mackinnon, Ilya Budraitskis, Filipa Ramos, Marwa Arsanios, Irmgard Emmelhainz, Françoise Vergès
e-flux Reader
Category
Ideology
Subjects
Crisis, Blackness, Black Studies, Collaboration, Love
8 Essays
Compiled bySamuel Barry
With:
Mary Walling Blackburn, Doreen Mende, Bilal Khbeiz, Orit Gat, Lawrence Liang, Barbara Cassin, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Elvia Wilk
e-flux Reader
Category
Literature, Performance, Language & Linguistics
Subjects
Ontology , Libraries & Archives, Publications
40 Essays
Compiled byEditors
With:
Jumana Manna, Oraib Toukan, Pelin Tan, Christian Nyampeta, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, McKenzie Wark, Rosza Daniel Lang/Levitsky, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Ariel Goldberg, Yazan Khalili, Nadia Yala Kisukidi, Jonas Staal, Hou Hanru, Ou Ning, iLiana Fokianaki, Steve Lyons and Jason Jones for Not An Alternative, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Paul B. Preciado, Mary Walling Blackburn, Sophie Lewis, Raqs Media Collective, Charles Tonderai Mudede, New Red Order, Ailton Krenak, Maurício Meirelles, Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Nika Dubrovsky, David Graeber, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Bilal Khbeiz, Marina Gržinić, Lázaro Saavedra, James Boggs, Françoise Vergès, Samer Frangie, Zdenka Badovinac, Vivian Ziherl, Irmgard Emmelhainz, Yuk Hui, Jalal Toufic, Étienne Balibar, Sam Richardson, Basel Abbas, Ruanne Abou-Rahme
e-flux Reader