e-flux Journal #137

Often it seems like we are facing so many endings that we can only be living in the end times—a self-annihilation whose inevitability even appears deliberate. From climate projection to daily news, much of the apocalyptic tone we encounter has an almost celebratory character, as if the end times were more of an ideological construction than a common observation. Certainly a lot of it is macho clickbait or political brinkmanship, and in some cases actual worlds ending. But it also carries a stranger imaginative character in the absence of any significant political imagination by traditional standards. Indeed, taken as a literary tool more than a documentary one, perhaps there is more to the end of the world than we thought… Editorial Editors ChatGPT, or the Eschatology of Machines Yuk Hui The Completion Franco “Bifo” Berardi The deer, when it is tired Mary Walling Blackburn Curating Immortality Boris Groys Reluctantly Queer Akosua Adoma Owusu and Kwame Edwin Otu Sadistic Chola Manifesto Olga Rodríguez-Ulloa Between Two Latin Americanisms: The Social Theory of Art (1975–86) Mijail Mitrovic Non-Western Avant-Gardes: A Misappropriation Otavio Leonidio Ashes to Ashes: On Combustion and Tyranny Fábio Zuker

Editors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle

Contributors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle, Yuk Hui, Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Mary Walling Blackburn, Boris Groys, Akosua Adoma Owusu, Kwame Edwin Otu, Olga Rodríguez-Ulloa, Mijail Mitrovic, Otavio Leonidio, Fábio Zuker