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Carolyn L. Kane
Carolyn L. Kane
In more than 60 texts, first published on-site at 56th Venice Biennale, artists and writers trace the negative collective that is the subject of contemporary life.
e-flux Books
Posted: December 1, 2017
Category
Technology, Internet, Contemporary Art, Utopia, Surveillance & Privacy, Nature & Ecology, Migration & Immigration, Labor & Work, Globalization
Subjects
Biennials, Networks, Post-Internet, Contemporaneity, Anthropocene, Apocalypse , Art Criticism, Transhumanism, Cosmism, Social Media, Science Fiction, Psychogeography, Postcolonialism, Ontology , Nihilism , Knowledge Production, Internet Art, Institutional Critique, Immaterial Labor, Human - Nonhuman Relations, Artistic Research
e-flux Events
Posted: April 21, 2017
Subjects
Computer-Generated Art, Sound Art
# 65
Plastic Shine: From Prosaic Miracle to Retrograde Sublime
Carolyn L. Kane
Plastics … A Way to a Better More Carefree Life.
— House Beautiful , 1947 1
Plastic, wrote Roland Barthes circa 1954, is “the first magical substance that consents to be prosaic.” 2 Indeed, the conveniences and major feats of modern culture would cease to exist without it. Found in such diverse objects as toothbrushes, water bottles, doorknobs, chewing gum, cellophane wrap, electronic and computer parts, acrylic paint, vinyl, Formica, and the ubiquitous polyurethane plastic…
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 1, 2015
Category
Technology, Contemporary Art
Subjects
Pollution & Toxicity
e-flux Project
Category
Internet, Interviews & Conversations, Labor & Work
Subjects
Biennials, Community, Digital Humanities, Apocalypse , Corruption, Planet Earth , Artificial intelligence, Artistic Research , The Cosmos, Cosmism, Networks, Biopolitics, The Commons
7 Essays
Compiled byAntonia Thomas
With:
Julieta Aranda, Eben Kirksey, Amanda Boetzkes, Andrew Pendakis, Giuliana Bruno, Heather Davis, Jennifer Gabrys, Carolyn L. Kane, Kirsty Robertson
e-flux Reader