e-flux Journal #18
<p>Issue 18 of <i>e-flux journal</i> marks the beginning of our third year of publishing, and the start of a “Letters to the Editors” feature, with reader responses to issues or individual essays published in the journal. To offer your own response, write to journal@e-flux.com.</p> <p>Robert Smithson’s well-known indictment of art institutions as lobotomizing apparatuses—neutralizing all that is placed within their walls—remains relevant today. But can we say, even in a Smithsonesque manner, that this problem now extends far beyond art museums? What if the edifying and embalming functions of museums and art institutions simply serve to double a latent tendency within culture itself, one that wants to hold on to things and remember them? Surely, if we were to demolish all art institutions, they would reemerge; and anyhow, as Toni Negri suggests in this issue, society needs institutions—the alternative is much worse…</p> <p><b>Editorial</b><br /> Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle</p> <p><b>History in the Making</b><br /> Peter Friedl</p> <p><b>Concepts Are Mental Images: The Work as Ruin</b><br /> Marta Jecu</p> <p><b>In Defense of the Corrupt Intellectual</b><br /> Hassan Khan</p> <p><b>Generic Objects</b><br /> Gean Moreno and Ernesto Oroza</p> <p><b>In Conversation with Antonio Negri </b><br /> Hans Ulrich Obrist</p> <p><b>Letters to the Editors: Eleven Responses to Anton Vidokle’s “Art Without Artists?”</b></p>
Editors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle
Contributors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle, Peter Friedl, Marta Jecu, Hassan Khan, Gean Moreno, Ernesto Oroza, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Antonio Negri
Part of: e-flux journal
ISSN: 21641625