e-flux Journal #136

Part of what makes interviews so engaging to read is that they presume to share ideas on the fly, in a social setting and in the world. In comparison, written essays feel like constructed machines, lean and airtight with beginnings, middles, and ends. No wonder interviews, as a whole, seem a bit decadent in their procrastinatory pleasure. It’s like they catch interlocutors off guard when they should be doing something more serious. Interestingly though, the informality of speech is also a ruse, and a formal challenge for those who prefer to construct words and ideas methodically, because things sometimes spill out that wouldn’t be disciplined into more structured writing and thinking. Editorial Editors Interview with a Cat Marcel Broodthaers The Call of the Unknown in Art and Cosmotechnics Yuk Hui and Barry Schwabsky in conversation We Were Glowing Dark Inanimates Renee Gladman Leaving the Earth Boris Groys and Alice Wang in conversation FUTURE IMPERFECT Elizabeth Willis On End Credits Steve McQueen and Doreen Mende in conversation From Islands of Commons to Collective Autonomy Mary N. Taylor and Janet Sarbanes in conversation from Commonplace Hugo García Manríquez The Evasive Potentials of Contemporary Art Liam Gillick and Jörg Heiser in conversation Listening and Writing to Images Tina M. Campt and Jace Clayton in conversation

Editors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle

Contributors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle, Marcel Broodthaers, Yuk Hui, Barry Schwabsky, Renee Gladman, Boris Groys, Alice Wang, Elizabeth Willis, Steve McQueen, Doreen Mende, Mary N. Taylor, Janet Sarbanes, Hugo García Manríquez, Liam Gillick, Jörg Heiser, Tina M. Campt, Jace Clayton