e-flux Journal #20
<p>Should everything be seen as raw material? It is a promise at the very heart of the language, the experience, the reception, the production of art. Hardened systems full of authority should be beaten back down to a point where their basic components become malleable, where as raw material they can play host to potentials, to promises of other ethics, of other forms completely. This can be done using literal, formal, figurative, poetical, or contextual means, and over the past century, just as now, this process of reduction and reconstitution has most often centered on the relationship between human labor and the commodity. And it is in the field of art that the relationship between the two becomes most vivid, while at the same time it is absolutely and completely confused…</p> <p><b>Editorial</b><br /> Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle</p> <p><b>Cognitarian Subjectivation</b><br /> Franco Berardi Bifo</p> <p><b>Towards the Space of the General: On Labor beyond Materiality and Immateriality</b><br /> Keti Chukhrov</p> <p><b>Neo-Materialism, Part I: The Commodity and the Exhibition</b><br /> Joshua Simon</p> <p><b>Positively Protest Aesthetics Revisited</b><br /> Simon Sheikh</p> <p><b>Contractions of Time: On Social Practice from a Temporal Perspective</b><br /> Nato Thompson</p>
Editors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle
Contributors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle, Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Keti Chukhrov, Joshua Simon, Simon Sheikh, Nato Thompson
Part of: e-flux journal
ISSN: 21641625