e-flux Journal #119

<p>The Covid-19 pandemic has attacked not only our individual bodies, but our collective body as well. Through thirteen contributions by writers who are mostly from former socialist countries where the space of freedom is contracting once again, this special issue of e-flux journal asks what this collective body actually means, and what it has become.</p> <p>These changes are not only happening in Europe’s former socialist countries. Something similar is also occurring in Greece and Turkey, where two essays in the issue originate. This is not to say that all is well elsewhere, that democracy is thriving in Western Europe and North America, for example. On the contrary, we see similar processes throughout the world—heightened surveillance through digital technology, expanding capitalism, hatred towards those who are other or different, populist movements growing stronger, an increasing number of authoritarian leaders…</p>

Editors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle

Contributors: Zdenka Badovinac, Ana Dević, Iskra Geshoska, iLiana Fokianaki, Oxana Timofeeva, Ivana Bago, Agata Adamiecka-Sitek, Omuz Dictionary Group, Saliha Yavuz, Görkem İmrek, Merve Elveren, Neylan Bağcıoğlu, OMUZ, Nikolett Erőss, Ana Vujanović, Azra Akšamija, Jela Krečič, Bojana Piškur, Raluca Voinea