e-flux Journal #151

<p>The conspicuous presence of human growth hormone and ill-fitting suits worn by tech-billionaire CEOs in the front row of Donald J. Trump’s presidential inauguration last month speaks volumes about the deep ties between the disruptive ideology of the tech sector and far-right movements in recent decades—a partnership now formally entering the White House. The way disgraced New York City mayor Eric Adams was relegated to a back room after receiving a last-minute invite to the inauguration only adds to the displacement of traditional agents of governance to make room for the new “globalists.” Neoreactionary thought has been particularly influential, appealing to young provocateurs in art and tech turned on by its brand of futurist extremism and targeted anti-humanism spotted with various illiberal tendencies masquerading as pronatalism, market nationalism, and so on. In this issue, Yuk Hui notes that vice president J. D. Vance’s close association with Dark Enlightenment figures such as Peter Thiel and Curtis Yarvin has taken their abject provocations to a new extreme. Hui revisits his 2017 e-flux journal essay “On the Unhappy Consciousness of Neoreactionaries” to analyze how this fitful thrashing of US empire clings to the spoils of globalization while also buckling under its consequences, deepening its unsustainable contradictions.</p> <p><strong>Editorial<br /> </strong> Editors</p> <p class="p1"><strong>On the Recurrence of Neoreactionaries<br /> </strong> Yuk Hui</p> <p class="p1"><strong>Improbable Potentialities<br /> </strong> Sven Lütticken</p> <p class="p1"><strong>Taking AI into the Tunnels<br /> </strong> Mikael Brunila</p> <p class="p1"><strong>The Commune Form: A Conversation<br /> </strong> Kristin Ross and Andreas Petrossiants</p> <p class="p1"><strong>Housewives, Prostitutes, and Workers<br /> </strong> Leopoldina Fortunati</p> <p class="p1"><strong>The Economic Possibilities of Lucid Dreaming<br /> </strong> Charles Tonderai Mudede</p> <p class="p1"><strong>Globalism à la Française: A Conversation on Okwui Enwezor’s “Intense Proximity” Triennale<br /> </strong>Émilie Renard, Claire Staebler, and Mathilde Walker-Billaud<strong><br /> </strong></p>