e-flux Journal #40

<p>After an all-night conversation with an old friend, you are ready to start the revolution together. But the next day, discussing the finer points over breakfast, you realize <em>no, it’s impossible</em>—in fact, this friend is actually a fascist. Her sentiment is right but her strategies could be disastrous. In order for the revolution to succeed, you will probably have to kill her. And this friend is thinking the same thing of you—a cowardly ideologue who hides behind an antiquated idea of historical progress in order to feel like a good person. Your grand political project from last night draws closer to the proverbial dustbin. The eggs are delicious. Your friend is as sweet as ever, it would be a real pity to have to kill her over something like this. Maybe you should not be having these conversations in the first place…</p> <p><b>Editorial</b><br /> Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle</p> <p><b>What Is the Social in Social Media?</b><br /> Geert Lovink</p> <p><b>Conceptual Art and Eastern Europe: Part I</b><br /> Zdenka Badovinac, Eda Čufer, Cristina Freire, Boris Groys, Charles Harrison, Vít Havránek, Piotr Piotrowski, and Branka Stipančić</p> <p><b>In Conversation with Ilya and Emilia Kabakov</b><br /> Anton Vidokle</p> <p><b>The Door to Slow Sunset</b><br /> Hu Fang</p> <p><b>Nightmares and Screens: Notes on Two Movies</b><br /> Franco Berardi Bifo</p>