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McKenzie Wark on her essay, "My Collectible Ass," published in the 85th issue of e-flux journal, October 2017.&nbsp;In conversation with journal editor Stephen Squibb. 

Read the essay: http://www.e-flux.com/journal/85/156418/my-collectible-ass/
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McKenzie Wark on the fate of art collecting in the digital age

Vivian Ziherl&nbsp;discusses her curatorial platform Frontier Imaginaries&nbsp;on the occasion of&nbsp;TOXIC ASSETS: Frontier Imaginaries Ed.No3&nbsp;at e-flux, Columbia University, and UnionDocs in October 2017. In conversation with journal editor Brian Kuan Wood. 

Watch day one of TOXIC ASSETS on e-flux film & video: http://www.e-flux.com/video/167822/toxic-assets-nbsp-frontier-imaginaries-ed-no3-at-e-flux-and-columbia-university-day-1/
"The Fourfold Articulation" in e-flux journal #81, April 2017: http://www.e-flux.com/journal/81/126968/the-fourfold-articulation/
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Vivian Ziherl on Frontier Imaginaries, Toxic Assets, and The Fourfold Articulation

Elizabeth A. Povinelli discusses four axioms of critical theory in response to her presentation, "Toxic Assets the the Extimacy of Existence," from Frontier Imaginaries Ed.No3 at e-flux. In conversation with journal editor Stephen Squibb. 

Read Elizabeth A. Povinelli in e-flux journal (http://www.e-flux.com/journal/): 

"Geontologies: The Concept and Its Territories" from issue 81, April 2017
"Geontologies: The Figures and the Tactics" from issue 78, December 2016

Elizabeth A. Povinelli on the four axioms of critical theory

e-flux founder, journal editor, and artist Anton Vidokle discusses cosmism with Kaye Cain-Nielsen, editor-in-chief of e-flux journal. You can read more on cosmism in the 88th issue of e-flux journal&nbsp;(February 2018).&nbsp;Featuring texts by Robert Bird, Maria Chehonadskih, Keti Chukhrov, Boris Groys, Trevor Paglen, Alexei Penzin, Marina Simakova, Arseny Zhilyaev, and a Timeline of Russian Cosmism compiled by Anastasia Gacheva, Arseny Zhilyaev, and Anton Vidokle.&nbsp;

Immortality for all: Anton Vidokle on cosmism

>ect explores why philosophers are compelled to understand the social reality of which philosophy is a part.

"To really distinguish the ideal and the real is to understand how they are distinguished in practice, and not in thought - in what we do, and not in what we represent ourselves as doing."

"A philosophy that doesn't try to understand social reality - that doesn't try to understand its own connection to a world that wasn't created to be philosophisable - is not being done seriously."

Music

"I'm into CB" by The Fall
"I Sexoualiki Polyrrythmia Kai Ta Tria Paidia (Instrumental)" by Manos Hadjidakis (Sweet Movie Soundtrack) 


Artwork

"Lineare Komposition (Linear Composition)" by Ljubow Popowa

>ect 9 In Conversation with Ray Brassier

Zach Blas in conversation with Laurel Ptak, Art in General's Executive Director &amp; Curator, on the occasion of Blas's exhibition&nbsp;Contra-Internet&nbsp;at Art in General and his lecture-performance&nbsp;Metric Mysticism&nbsp;at e-flux. 

Zach Blas&nbsp;is an artist and writer whose practice confronts technologies of capture, security, and control. Currently, he is a Lecturer in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. His recent works respond to biometric governmentality and network hegemony. 

Read more about the exhibition, on view through April 21, 2018, at http://www.artingeneral.org/exhibitions/650

Read Zach Blas' essay in e-flux journal #74 (June 2016): "Contra-Internet" http://www.e-flux.com/journal/74/59816/contra-internet/

Contra-Internet with Zach Blas and Laurel Ptak

@sin-osc
Sinosc is a Dresden-based artist who is co-hosting the amazing Documnt mix series and who's also part of the 2018 SHAPE platform.
Her sets are really cinematically and are basically made for conscious listening apart from club music.

Tracklist:
Eva01 – Part 03
bod [包家巷] – Soliloquy Of The Distant Home [远家独白]
Organ Tapes – Di Qiu
Sasha Manik – Aerial Kingdom (Swan Meat Godless Remix)
Enchanted Lands – All Silver And Shadow And Visions Of Things Not Seen
Drippin – End Effect
M.E.S.H. – Privileged Lord
Lawrence Lek & Seth Scott – Welcome To Sim-Singapore
JZArector – High Deaf
Ptwiggs & Grasps_ – Eternal
Ptwiggs & Yoshitaka Hikawa – Gym
Khalil – The White Hoodie I Wear Because I Love You 
Lanark Artefax – Voices Near The Hypocentre 
Ziur – Soaked
Golin & Buga – ふしぎ

PH17 Mix #2 - sinosc

Writer Victor Wallis presents a socialist framework for ecological revolution - as global capitalism pushes the planet and everyone on it closer to crisis, only a transformative, working-class lead re-ordering of political and economic structures can deliver a safe, secure and healthy world for the future.

Victor is author of "Red-Green Revolution: The Politics and Technology of Ecosocialism" from Political Animal Press. https://politicalanimalmagazine.com/product/red-green-revolution-the-politics-and-technology-of-ecosocialism/

Saving the planet is a working class job: The case for ecosocialist transformation.

Feat. artist and social theorist JOSHUA CITARELLA who has been exploring how deep online spaces have evolved over the past few years, shaping popular politics in turn — especially among younger people. Last fall when we spoke to Joshua (ep. 6), he had just published a long-form piece on Politigram and the Post-Left. In this ep, we talk to him about his most recent essay, "Irony Politics & Gen Z" (published on New Models this spring), discussing the funnel of online radicalization and what tactics the left needs to consider for more effective off-ramping.

For more: Joshua Citarella, "Irony Politics & Gen-Z" (April, 2019) https://newmodels.io/proprietary/irony-politics-gen-z-2019-citarella
http://joshuacitarella.com/

New Models Podcast

SHIFT ALT RIGHT CLIQUE

EP 14: SHIFT ALT RIGHT CLIQUE (Joshua Citarella)

Artist Karl Holmqvist reads “ANOTHER WAR IS POSSIBLE” and “NUMBERS,” and speaks with artist and e-flux founder Anton Vidokle. Karl Holmqvist is known for using a wide range of formats—poetry readings, installation, and sculpture–to bring out the primal qualities of language. He is one of a current generation of artists working with language and text as sculptural or performative material. Holmqvist says his work is meant to spark the creative process in the viewer, seeing his art and poetry as a translation of the complexities of contemporary life. He blends poetry with pop music and his texts, composed of anecdotes as famous as they are diverse, explore the themes of communication and language. Together, the works unpack the many operations of language, how it can occupy space and provoke “invisible images” within memory and imagination. In February 2019, e-flux’s Bar Laika presented a new work by Karl Holmqvist: #FLU$$CH (29 minutes, 2017), with an introduction by and Q&amp;A with Pati Hertling. You can read “GORILLAZ GRRLZ,”&nbsp;Holmqvist’s contribution to e-flux journal’s SUPERCOMMUNITY project at the 56th Venice Biennale, here.

ANOTHER WAR IS POSSIBLE: Karl Holmqvist

Andreas Petrossiants, Editorial Assistant for e-flux journal, speaks to artist Fiona Connor starting from her exhibition at SculptureCenter,&nbsp;Closed for installation, Fiona Connor, SculptureCenter, #4.&nbsp; 

As the show's&nbsp;press release describes: 

"Los Angeles-based artist Fiona Connor remakes overlooked everyday objects, including bulletin boards, park benches, community noticeboards, doors of closed down clubs, real estate signs, municipal water fountains, and so on. She is interested in where these objects come from, what they are made out of, who makes them and for whom, as well as the relationships that the artist initiates and maintains in order to reproduce and re-present the objects as works of art. For her new commission at SculptureCenter, Connor is producing a set of intersecting works that bring together the artist’s investment in the various operations of sculpture in an expansive field of production, maintenance, and display. In the gallery, she shows a number of bronze pieces that replicate tools required to install an exhibition, such as a measuring tape, a paint tray, a dolly, and scraps of cardboard. Nearby in an apartment in Long Island City, the artist arranges for an annual window cleaning, in perpetuity. Later in the course of the exhibition, Connor convenes a series of workshops, using pulped institutional printed material to make a set of catalog-sized blocks that will function as the exhibition’s publication." Closed for installation, Fiona Connor, SculptureCenter, #4 is on view through July 29, 2019.

Closed for installation: Fiona Connor

e-flux journal editorial assistant Andreas Petrossiants speaks to Franco “Bifo” Berardi following his recent texts “(Sensitive) Consciousness and Time: Against the Transhumanist Utopia” in issue 98, and “Game Over” in issue 100. Franco Berardi, aka “Bifo,” founder of the famous Radio Alice in Bologna and an important figure in the Italian Autonomia movement, is a writer, media theorist, and social activist. His most recent books are Breathing: Chaos and Poetry (Semiotexte, 2018) and The Second Coming (Polity, 2019).

Franco “Bifo” Berardi on the future possibility of living well

Erin talks Interference Archive volunteers Louise Barry and Rob Smith about the archive, and the exhibition Resistance Radio: The People’s Airwaves, on view through September 29, 2019.&nbsp; Resistance Radio: The People’s Airwaves focuses on the people, stations, and organizations that have battled to bring their defiant programming onto the airwaves, and particularly when these actions were in service of grassroots movements and/or community organizing. The mission of Interference Archive is to explore the relationship between cultural production and social movements—through an open stacks archival collection, publications, a study center, and public programs.&nbsp; The archive consists of posters, flyers, zines, books, t-shirts, buttons, moving images, audio recordings, and more.

Interference Archive: Louise Barry and Rob Smith

We're joined by author Naomi Klein to discuss climate change, a green new deal and what it must include, and new developments in responses to ecological crisis from both the right and the left.

Check out Naomi's new book "On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal" here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/On-Fire/Naomi-Klein/9781982129910

And if you're in NYC, consider stopping by our launch party for the paperback edition of The Chapo Guide to Revolution, this Wednesday at Powerhouse Arena https://www.powerhousearena.com/events/book-launch-the-chapo-guide-to-revolution-by-chapo-trap-house/

Chapo Trap House

358 - World on a Wire feat. Naomi Klein (10/14/19)

Curator Sohrab Mohebbi speaks to artist Christian Nyampeta on the occasion of his exhibition at SculptureCenter,  École du soir (The Evening Academy), on view through December 16, 2019. 

As part of the related public program, e-flux hosted an  evening with philosopher Isaïe Nzeyimana, in dialogue with anthropologist Natacha Nsabimana and Christian Nyampeta on Wednesday, October 23 at e-flux.&nbsp; 

Excerpt from the press release: 
Christian Nyampeta’s project consists of a scriptorium (a place for writing), an exhibition, and public programs concerned with “thinking Africa,” then and now. The program is resourced around the idea of an “evening school,” following the Senegalese writer and film director Sembène Ousmane, who saw cinema as “cours du soir” or “evening classes.” This concept was informed by the traditions of orality, sensuality, and conviviality within the realm of art learning and making in his region. Sembène saw cinema as a popular information system in the service of education, aesthetic experience, and public dissemination. His methodology concerned the use of cinema’s collective production, and investing in its viewing methods that draw from different uses of time, visual and textual histories, social struggles and hopes, in mutuality between his own locality and the world at large. 

Christian Nyampeta’s ongoing activities in art, design, and theory include the convening of a scriptorium, a roaming program of exhibitions, screenings, and lyrical performances concerned with longing and belonging through monuments and translation. Forthcoming exhibitions include the Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art in Ekaterinburg, Russia. Nyampeta runs Radius, an online and occasionally inhabitable radio station. He is completing a PhD in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths University of London and he was awarded The Art Prize Future of Europe 2019. 

Sohrab Mohebbi is SculptureCenter's Curator and is responsible for organizing exhibitions, educational and public programs, publications, and for coordinating all aspects of program presentation. Before joining SculptureCenter in 2018, Mohebbi was the associate curator at REDCAT.

Sohrab Mohebbi and Christian Nyampeta discuss École du soir

In this first episode of 2020, we acknowledge the significant scholarly and theoretical development currently taking shape in the sociology of sport specifically and the humanities and social sciences in general. An increasing number of critical sport scholars are embracing theoretical discourses we can collectively associate with “New Materialism”, scholarship seeking to destabilize Anthropocentric notions of human subjectivity and relate humans with nonhuman and environmental actants in the contemporary context of rapid technological change and global late capitalism. New Materialism complicates the influential foundations laid by decades of historical and cultural materialist inquiry, as well as the twentieth-century “linguistic turn”, in which feminist, critical race, postcolonial and poststructural scholars emphasized the social constructed-ness of categories like gender and race and the role of discourse in contexts of identity formation. Equipped with this insight from the linguistic turn, sociologists, cultural theorists, historians, geographers, and other critical scholars are returning their focus to “matter” and are trying to better understand human life in relation to technology, animals, and other environmental and non-human “actants” in a way that does not privilege the human subject.

Thus, we dedicate the first episode of 2020 to the question of New Materialism and how New Materialist theories can productively extend the critical study of sport, physical culture and the active body in new and excited ways. We speak with Drs. Joshua Newman, Holly Thorpe, and David Andrews, three prominent and influential figures in the sociology of sport field who recently edited a volume of New Materialist scholarship, culminating the new book Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body: Materialisms, Technologies, Ecologies. The editors discuss New Materialist inquiry and how the theoretical development can lead to more nuanced takes on the role of sport and the moving body in our present era of climate change and late capitalism. We then speak with Dr. Marianne Clark, a chapter author in the book, to gain a better understand of what exactly is New Materialist sport scholarship and what kind of research may be generated by the New Materialist turn.

Ep 14 - New Materialism and the Active Body

Amidst a climate of uncertainty and social distancing due to COVID-19, writer and e-flux journal contributing editor Elvia Wilk and artist Anicka Yi discuss various changing global ecologies, viral and otherwise. Their original in-person conversation was planned on the occasion of Tate Modern’s selection of Yi for the annual Hyundai / Turbine Hall commission.&nbsp; 

A symbiotic organism in its own right, Anicka Yi's work fuses multi-sensory experience with synthetic and evolutionary biology to form lush bio-fictional landscapes. Utilizing a “biopolitics of the senses,” Yi challenges traditional approaches to the human sensorium, emphasizing olfaction as well as microbial and embodied intelligence. Through her research and “techno-sensual” artistic exploration, Yi is opening new discourse in the realms of cognition, artificial intelligence and machine learning, introducing concepts of the sensorial ecology of intelligence, the machine microbiome, machine ecosystems, and “biologized” machines. Maintaining a practice focused on co-subjectivity, Yi’s projects include collaborations with engineers, robots, synthetic and microbiologists, computer scientists, perfumers, ant and bacterial colonies, algae, tempura-fried flowers, and snails.&nbsp; 

Anicka Yi lives and works in New York City. Her recent solo exhibitions include Gladstone Gallery, Brussels; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Fridericianum, Kassel; Kunsthalle Basel; List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts; The Kitchen, New York; and The Cleveland Museum of Art. Yi’s work was also featured in the 58th Venice Biennale, 2019. Yi has screened her film, The Flavor Genome, at the 2017 Whitney Biennial and the International Film Festival of Rotterdam, 2017. In 2016, she was awarded the Hugo Boss Prize for outstanding achievement in contemporary art. She is represented by Gladstone Gallery and 47 Canal, New York.&nbsp; Yi's Hyundai Commission at Tate’s Turbine Hall is scheduled to open in October 2020. It will be curated by Mark Godfrey, senior curator; Petra Schmidt, production manager; and Carly Whitefield, assistant curator.

Anicka Yi on nonhuman ecologies and embodied machines

Conversations with some of the most engaged artists and thinkers working today.

e-flux is a publishing platform and archive, artist project, curatorial platform, and enterprise which was founded in 1998. Its news digest, events, exhibitions, schools, journal, books, and the art projects produced and/or disseminated by e-flux describe strains of critical discourse surrounding contemporary art, culture, and theory internationally. Its monthly publication e-flux journal has produced essays commissioned since 2008 about cultural, political, and structural paradigms that inform contemporary artistic production.