e-flux Journal #23
<p>The Gulf War did not take place, as Baudrillard notoriously put it. But now something else has taken place, and it did not happen in the doldrums of virtuality, but in the streets and squares of Tunis, Cairo, Benghazi, and elsewhere. It seems that the prospect of an all-encompassing condition of techno-saturated anorexia, perhaps appropriate for a time when communications networks and the tools for producing reality were situated in the hands of governments and telecommunications tycoons, has been inverted. No one could have foreseen the perseverance of reality over mass-deception, the weaponization of communications networks in the hands of ordinary people, and the discovery of commonality where it had surely been obliterated by systems far more oppressive than anything a camera or computer could ever devise…</p> <p><b>Editorial</b><br /> Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle</p> <p><b>The Impossible Museum</b><br /> Peter Friedl</p> <p><b>Some Experiments in Art and Politics</b><br /> Bruno Latour</p> <p><b>Wolf and Vampire: The Border Between Technology and Culture</b><br /> Mona Mahall</p> <p><b>Back to the Future: Report from Hungary</b><br /> Lívia Páldi</p> <p><b>Camels vs. Google: Revolutions Recreate the Center of the World</b><br /> Jon Rich</p> <p><b>Deleuze, Schizoanalyst</b><br /> Suely Rolnik</p> <p><b>Culture Class: Art, Creativity, Urbanism, Part II</b><br /> Martha Rosler</p> <p><b>Neo-Materialism, Part Two: The Unreadymade</b><br /> Joshua Simon</p>
Editors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle
Contributors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle, Peter Friedl, Bruno Latour, Mona Mahall, Lívia Páldi, Jon Rich, Suely Rolnik, Martha Rosler, Joshua Simon
Part of: e-flux journal
ISSN: 21641625