8 documents
# 97
Apocalypse without Kingdom
Günther Anders
Günther Anders (1902–92) is undoubtedly one of the most interesting, ignored, oppositional, radical, and nearly forgotten philosophers of the twentieth century. Having grown up in Germany, Anders (whose real name was Stern) and his wife Hannah Arendt had to flee the country in 1933. Via Paris, now divorced, Anders came to the United States, where he never really found his place; red-baiting and propaganda against the left made it difficult for him to find a job. In 1950 he decided to return…
e-flux Journal
Posted: February 16, 2019
Category
Communism, Philosophy
Subjects
Apocalypse , Temporality, The Enlightenment, Nihilism , Christianity
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
# 68
The Forbidden Symbols
Ernesto Hernández Busto
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The funniest moment of the only movie that Caetano Veloso ever made, O Cinema Falado (1986), is a scene in which Brazilian actress Regina Casé parodies the gestures and body language of Fidel Castro. 1 Within the collage of an avant garde film-essay, the parody is a humorous parenthesis that alternates between quotes from Heidegger, Guimarães Rosa, Thomas Mann, Gertrude Stein, combining with popular dance and music scenes, the visual grammar of Cinema Novo, and an entire…
e-flux Journal
Posted: December 1, 2015
Category
Film, Performance, Language & Linguistics, Surveillance & Privacy
Subjects
Cuba, Propaganda, Nihilism , Death
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark
Concept After Concept: Before Normal
e-flux Announcement
Posted: May 4, 2014
Category
Populism
Subjects
Conceptual & Post-Conceptual Art, Humor & Comedy, Nihilism
Institution
Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art
Józef Robakowski. My Own Cinema
e-flux Announcement
Posted: January 4, 2013
Category
Film
Subjects
Video Art, Eastern Europe, Dada, Nihilism , Optics & Perception, Biography
Institution
# 28
The Time That Remains, Part I: On Contemporary Nihilism
Sotirios Bahtsetzis
Art is the distinctive countermovement to nihilism.
—Martin Heidegger 1
In the late 1970s Aldo Rossi wrote: “Now it seems to me that everything has already been seen; when I design I repeat, and in the observation of things there is also the observation of memory . ” 2 If, for Rossi, architecture that comes from the typological reorganization of forms can only produce memories, then these memories are associated with the condition of a continuous awareness of the…
e-flux Journal
Posted: October 1, 2011
Category
Aesthetics, Modernism, Contemporary Art
Subjects
Temporality, Subjectivity, Nihilism
e-flux Announcement
Posted: January 26, 2011
Subjects
Site-Specific Art, Nihilism
Institution
Frac Bourgogne
Stefan Brüggemann