e-flux Journal #139

If you believe in progress, the old and aged are always to blame for causing the persistent problems of the present, and the young, who supposedly come later, are the solution. This is all very tidy until you wake up one day to find yourself old—and observe that the young who blame you are also the young who are causing the problems of the future, just as you had in your own youth. In this issue, Luis Camnitzer offers advice to the aging—which, to be clear, means all of us—through an anecdotal contribution to the field of intergenerational dialogic studies. He discusses attempts at nonauthoritarian child rearing; his experience, while a student activist, of explaining an art historian’s own obsolescence to his face; and recent moments when he’s realized that his generation has become ineffective at communicating with the young. In other words, Camnitzer fears that his has become the generation suffering from “asshole syndrome”—a diagnosis he and his fellow students used to dole out. Age and power together form a complex configuration, which make empathy and self-assessment all the more important when communicating across generational lines… Editorial Editors Geriatric Power Luis Camnitzer No Order Makes Any Sense: A Conversation on Ilya Kabakov Boris Groys and Anton Khitrov Politics at Sunset: Theses on Benjamin Mario Tronti Hospicing Modernity: A Conversation Vanessa Machado de Oliveira Andreotti and Lucia Pietroiusti Anarcho-Ecstasy: Options for an Afri-Queer Becoming KJ Abudu Racial Fascism Alberto Toscano Capitalism and Schismogenesis, Part 2 Sven Lütticken Never Born Shane Greene

Editors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle

Contributors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle, Luis Camnitzer, Boris Groys, Anton Khitrov, Mario Tronti, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira Andreotti, Lucia Pietroiusti, KJ Abudu, Alberto Toscano, Sven Lütticken, Shane Greene