e-flux Journal #38
<p>To get rid of violence, you have to get rid of people, Tariq Ramadan once said in an interview. Of course, Ramadan meant this as an impossibility and a warning against overzealous idealism. But what an idea! By getting rid of people completely, we could have totally frictionless surfaces for exchange. Removing the human factor would effectively erase the difference between ethical and unethical behavior, visible and invisible infrastructure, finally relieving the increasingly tedious obligation to explain how political orders function, how economic transactions are guided. Those still living would only need to deal with the end products of systems whose functions are too complex, too tedious or technical, to merit attention. The entire world would assume the appearance of an iPhone interface…</p> <p><b>Editorial—“Structural Violence”</b><br /> Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle</p> <p><b>Inside Abstraction </b><br /> Sven Lütticken</p> <p><b>Facebook: A Court of Ignorant, Cruel Judges</b><br /> Jon Rich</p> <p><b>In Praise of Books: When Authorities Close a Prison, They Foil a Revolution!</b><br /> Bilal Khbeiz</p> <p><b>Missing People: Entanglement, Superposition, and Exhumation as Sites of Indeterminacy</b><br /> Hito Steyerl</p> <p><b>665: The Least of All Possible Evils</b><br /> Eyal Weizman</p> <p><b>Breaking the Social Contract</b><br /> Pelin Tan</p> <p><b>Captives of the Cloud: Part II</b><br /> Metahaven</p> <p><b>A History of Infinity and Some Fresh Catastrophes: On Raqs Media Collective’s The Capital of Accumulation</b><br /> Cuauhtémoc Medina</p>
Editors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle
Contributors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle, Sven Lütticken, Jon Rich, Bilal Khbeiz, Hito Steyerl, Eyal Weizman, Pelin Tan, Metahaven, Cuauhtémoc Medina
Part of: e-flux journal
ISSN: 21641625