24 documents
Jon Rich
Jon Rich
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Double US book launch: Duty Free Art and Supercommunity
e-flux Announcement
Posted: January 5, 2018
Category
Interviews & Conversations, Surveillance & Privacy, Data & Information, Technology, Museums, Utopia
Subjects
Money & Finance, Publications, Freeports
Institution
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
# 65
ISIS and the CIA Vie for the Claim to Divinity
Jon Rich
One would be hard-pressed to find evidence for which form of torture is more brutal: immolation or waterboarding. There is little evidence from victims of burning to describe the extent of their pain. Moreover, survivors of immolation generally haven’t experienced drowning in order to decide which is the more violent ending. We have also not seen proof of whether the strategy of self-drowning, in a sea, a river, or a public pool, has been used by Arab Spring protestors, Buddhist Priests, or…
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 1, 2015
Subjects
Violence, Death, Media Critique
Locating the backbone of the global telecommunications network we used to think was an internet.
e-flux Books
Posted: April 1, 2015
Category
Internet, Technology, Capitalism
Subjects
Post-Internet, Networks, Knowledge Production, Infrastructure, Social Media, Internet Art, Contemporaneity, Accelerationism
Book launch: The Internet Does Not Exist
Keller Easterling, Bruno Latour, Ursula K. Heise, Gean Moreno, Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Diedrich Diederichsen, Rasmus Fleischer, Jon Rich, Geert Lovink, Geert Lovink, Brian Kuan Wood, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Julian Assange, Metahaven, Benjamin H. Bratton, Patricia MacCormack, and Hito Steyerl
e-flux Events
Posted: March 27, 2015
Category
Internet
Subjects
Networks, Post-Internet
Sternberg Press
Book launch: The Internet Does Not Exist
e-flux Announcement
Posted: March 25, 2015
Institution
e-flux journal
e-flux journal issue 62
e-flux Announcement
Posted: February 4, 2015
Institution
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e-flux journal issue 62
e-flux Announcement
Posted: February 4, 2015
Institution
# 62
The Communal Rift: The State Must be Defended
Jon Rich
The perpetrators of the crime against the French weekly Charlie Hebdo were French citizens. The fact that they are not foreigners is an irony and does not explain much, as many mistakenly perceived, about the factors leading up to the current (historical) moment. The fact that Western cultures see this as a paradoxical trait of modern societies points to a deeper flaw in the structure of modern societies themselves.
For the criminals at hand to qualify as French, one expects all…
e-flux Journal
Posted: February 1, 2015
Category
Migration & Immigration, War & Conflict
Subjects
State & Government, Citizenship, Terrorism
e-flux journal
e-flux journal issue 47:out now
e-flux Announcement
Posted: September 6, 2013
Institution
e-flux journal
e-flux journal issue 47:out now
e-flux Announcement
Posted: September 6, 2013
Institution
# 47
The Bachelor Century: Single Sinners Seeking God’s Job
Jon Rich
The Hymnal
Some out there are passing around a prophecy about Pope Francis that speaks of him as the last Pope of the Catholic Church. After him the sky will shudder and God will bring the flood. This seems to be supported by the Church’s familiar numeric appendage to the Pope’s name: he is the first Francis but not Francis the First. Is it a sign or some papal scheming?
Pope Francis wants to replace the gold cross with one made of wood. He wants to give the church back to the…
e-flux Journal
Posted: September 1, 2013
Category
Religion & Spirituality, War & Conflict, Migration & Immigration
Subjects
Secularism, Christianity
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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
Facebook: A Court of Ignorant, Cruel Judges
Jon Rich
A Lebanese friend who happens to be a writer was telling me recently that he didn’t appreciate the comments posted in response to some of his articles on the internet. He happens to work at a well-known journalistic institution whose website has been suspended in a 1990s internet vortex due to some bureaucratic complications. Although his colleagues often complain about the woeful obscurity of their writing on this website compared to other less serious yet more influential media outlets, he…
e-flux Journal
Posted: October 1, 2012
Category
War & Conflict
Subjects
Social Media, Media theory , Middle East, Violence
Bilal Khbeiz at MoMA PS1
Bilal Khbeiz and Jon Rich
e-flux Events
Posted: January 29, 2012
Category
Migration & Immigration
e-flux journal
e-flux journal issue no. 26 “Artistic Thinking”
e-flux Announcement
Posted: July 15, 2011
Institution
e-flux journal
e-flux journal no. 26
e-flux Announcement
Posted: June 30, 2011
Institution
# 26
The Blood of the Victim: Revolution in Syria and the Birth of the Image-Event
Jon Rich
In March 1993, Kevin Carter took a photo of a starving Sudanese child crawling towards a UN relief camp less than a mile away. A few meters from the weary child stood a vulture, waiting for her death to begin his meal. Birds also must eat, and in southern Sudan they were eating because humans were not. Kevin Carter stood across from the vulture, lit a cigarette, and took his shot. Twenty minutes passed and the bird didn’t move, waiting in its place as the child continued to struggle towards…
e-flux Journal
Posted: June 1, 2011
Category
Photography, Image
Subjects
Photojournalism, Middle East, Media Critique, Revolution, Violence
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e-flux journal issue no. 23
e-flux Announcement
Posted: March 18, 2011
Institution
e-flux journal
No. 23 out now
e-flux Announcement
Posted: March 10, 2011
Institution
# 23
Camels vs. Google: Revolutions Recreate the Center of the World
Jon Rich
When Google enabled access to Twitter services through landlines in Egypt, the American administration erred on the side of caution. Google is the crown jewel of the American empire, but whereas the American administration manages ideas, Google deals in instruments and communication interfaces. During the revolution in Egypt, such tools proved their ability to animate the global public, while politics reasoned by ideas remains, as of yet, incapable of responding to chronic problems. We may…
e-flux Journal
Posted: March 1, 2011
Category
Internet, Democracy
Subjects
Social Media, Arab Spring, Protests & Demonstrations, Middle East, Revolution, USA
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