e-flux Journal #143

Under the right conditions, each day contains two brief moments when the rising or falling sun hits at an angle so precise it arrests the eye. In this issue of e-flux journal, Oraib Toukan shows that there is more to what filmmakers and photographers call the “golden hour.” The unmistakable light of a brief interval also reveals things exactly as they are. In this time of Gaza’s devastation, Toukan explores the power and limitations of words and images in conveying the depth of Palestinian grief and dignity amidst what appears to be an ongoing ethnic cleansing. The grounding concept of turbeh (soil) emerges as an axis for knowledge and justice, urging readers to look beyond the surface and into the soil grain of images. Editorial Editors Twenty-One Sunsets Oraib Toukan On Paralysis, Part 2 Evan Calder Williams Will AI Remember the Days of Slavery? Charles Tonderai Mudede The Oikos of the Earth, the Nomos of the Black Hole Antonia Majaca Counterinsurgent: Cop City, Abolition Ecology, and the Aesthetics of Counterreform T. J. Demos The Greatest Distance Between Two Points Is a Straight Line Claudio Medeiros and Victor Galdino Let’s Call It Art! Luis Camnitzer

Editors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle

Contributors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle, Oraib Toukan, Evan Calder Williams, Charles Tonderai Mudede, Antonia Majaca, T. J. Demos, Claudio Medeiros, Victor Galdino, Luis Camnitzer