e-flux Journal #16
<p>Things would be much simpler if there existed a consistent means of evaluating art’s capacity to provide a concrete value for people. It’s a problem to which capital provides the most immediate solution—beyond the mundane routine of the art market, Brandeis University’s (ongoing) attempt to close their Rose Art Museum and liquidate its entire collection stands as a particularly unfortunate example of how a priceless collection of art, given the right circumstances (total financial meltdown), still finds its price. One is also reminded of the tragic decision by Middlesex University to close its renowned philosophy department in order to cut costs—in spite of the fact that the department’s meager staff of only six professors generate 5% of the large university’s research revenue, as Peter Osborne, head of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Middlesex, has noted…</p> <p><b>Editorial</b><br /> Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle</p> <p><b>The Unthinkable Community</b><br /> Paul Chan</p> <p><b>Music—Immateriality—Value</b><br /> Diedrich Diederichsen</p> <p><b>The Good of Work</b><br /> Liam Gillick</p> <p><b>Wu Yongfang, the Hunger Artist</b><br /> Hu Fang</p> <p><b>Michael Jackson Died for No Reason (and the Vampire that is His Life)</b><br /> Bilal Khbeiz</p> <p><b>Art and Thingness, Part III: The Heart of the Thing is the Thing We Don’t Know</b><br /> Sven Lütticken</p> <p><b>Innovative Forms of Archives, Part Two: IRWIN’s East Art Map and Tamás St. Auby’s Portable Intelligence Increase Museum</b><br /> Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez</p> <p><b>(Jena Revisited) Ten Tentative Tenets</b><br /> Dieter Roelstraete</p> <p><b>Art Without Artists?</b><br /> Anton Vidokle</p> <p><b>An Open Letter to Clifford Irving</b></p>
Editors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle
Contributors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle, Paul Chan, Diedrich Diederichsen, Liam Gillick, Hu Fang, Bilal Khbeiz, Sven Lütticken, Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, Dieter Roelstraete
Part of: e-flux journal
ISSN: 21641625