e-flux Journal #152

A curious series of handmade signs started replacing commercial advertisements in some bus shelters near e-flux in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn over the last few weeks. Amidst the new US government’s breakneck pace of undoing itself, the signs’ cheerful colors, reminiscent of children’s crafts, and their calls to protect democracy and resist seem to inhabit a level of power surreal in its mismatch with that of Trump, Musk, and their cabal armed with AI engineers and turbocharged by historically unprecedented wealth. Amidst the near-absence of effective opposition from the stunned onlookers of more organized and powerful bodies in the Democratic Party, labor unions, and civil society, perhaps this does not bode well for the outcome. Then again, maybe this is how a new form of opposition begins. Editorial Editors Cudgel, Out of the Bag Marion von Osten Forms of Strife Sven Lütticken There Is No Death: A Sketch Towards Entrancement Thotti The Ideal World Ou Ning Disinheriting the Violence of Colonial Modernity: Art, Exhibition-Making, and Infra/Intra-structural Critique KJ Abudu On Paralysis, Part 4 Evan Calder Williams From the Organizational Point of View: Bogdanov and the Augustinian Left, Part 1 Rodrigo Nunes

Contributors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle, Marion von Osten, Sven Lütticken, Thotti, Ou Ning, KJ Abudu, Evan Calder Williams, Rodrigo Nunes