7 documents
Zoo
February 1–28, 2023
e-flux Film
Category
Film, Sexuality & Eroticism
Subjects
Documentary, Speculative Realism, Animals, Human - Nonhuman Relations, Ethics
Kunstraum Niederoesterreich
2021 exhibition programme
e-flux Announcement
Posted: January 27, 2021
Category
Painting
Subjects
Blackness, Speculative Realism
Institution
Bonniers Konsthall
The World Is Gone, I Must Carry You
e-flux Announcement
Posted: September 26, 2020
Subjects
Environment, Sound Art, Speculative Realism
Institution
e-flux Criticism
Posted: September 7, 2015
Category
Religion & Spirituality
Subjects
Biennials, The Occult & Mysticism, Science, Consciousness & Cognition, Object-Oriented Philosophies, Speculative Realism
e-flux Criticism
Posted: July 10, 2014
Category
Posthumanism
Subjects
Post-Internet, Subjectivity, Consciousness & Cognition, Speculative Realism
e-flux Criticism
Posted: July 23, 2012
Subjects
Speculative Realism
# 36
Animation, De-reification, and the New Charm of the Inanimate
Diedrich Diederichsen
1. The Grin and Smile of the Inanimate
My three-year-old nephew plays with toy cars and model trains just like I did fifty years ago when I was his age. I recently wanted to give him a present, and so, thrilled with nostalgic anticipation, I walked into the toy department at a large store for the first time in decades. I was truly baffled by what I saw there: there was not a single car, not a single locomotive, crane, truck, construction vehicle, sports car, or tractor without eyes, a…
e-flux Journal
Posted: July 1, 2012
Category
Literature, Philosophy
Subjects
Animism, Childhood & Youth, Speculative Realism, Drugs & Psychedelia