e-flux Journal #125

As a child I really wanted to be Ukrainian. Or so I told my parents. When they asked why, I told them it’s because Ukrainians are happy people who sing and dance, while Jews and Russians are sad. I’m not totally sure where I got this idea. We did spend a lot of time in Ukraine, in a city called Dnipro, where my mother is from and where a part of my family still lives. My father’s family lived in an impoverished small town near Moscow that they fled to from Lithuania during World War I. The part of the family that stayed in Lithuania was later massacred during World War II. Sadly, my mother’s family in Ukraine did not fare well during World War II either— their small house in Dnipro was destroyed by the Nazis in 1941. Only recently, my mother received a small and symbolic reparation of a few hundred euros from the German government, about seventy years later… Editorial Editors The Case Against the Russian Federation Oleksiy Radynski War and (Senile) Dementia Franco “Bifo” Berardi A Conversation on Art and Cosmotechnics, Part 2 Yuk Hui and Brian Kuan Wood Sans Parole: Reflections on Camera Lucida, Part 2 Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa Out of the Clear Erin Manning What We Talk about When We Talk about Crisis: A Conversation, Part 2 Yazan Khalili, Lara Khaldi, and Marwa Arsanios We Are Not As Gods: Terrestrial Horizons Liaisons The Petrified, Part 1 Tyler Coburn Anselm Berrigan, Three Books and a Poem David Buuck, Three Books and a Poem Laura Henriksen, Three Books and a Poem Maryam Parhizkar, Three Books and a Poem Danny Snelson, Three Books and a Poem Rachael Guynn Wilson, Three Books and a Poem

Editors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle

Contributors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle, Oleksiy Radynski, Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Yuk Hui, Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, Erin Manning, Yazan Khalili, Lara Khaldi, Marwa Arsanios, Liaisons, Tyler Coburn, Anselm Berrigan, David Buuck, Laura Henriksen, Maryam Parhizkar, Danny Snelson, Rachael Guynn Wilson