e-flux Journal #52

<p>Neoliberalism began as the idea that economic rationality could be applied as a model of governance in place of political ideology. No more authoritarianism. Just the rational calculation of people’s needs and wants. But now we realize that needs and wants are not rational. They are crazy. And they take place on such vastly different scales that, without any political idea to stabilize desires and render them accountable—even simply in the sense of being legible and comprehensible—we are faced with nothing but irrationality as a governing order. Even logistical mechanisms are only the infrastructural bracketing of a rational order that is actually and profoundly not…</p> <p><b>Editorial</b><br /> Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle</p> <p><b>The Labor of the Inhuman, Part I: Human</b><br /> Reza Negarestani</p> <p><b>The Rich Should Be Richer </b><br /> Ane Hjort Guttu</p> <p><b>National Heterologies: On the Materiality and Mediality of Flags—Mali 2013</b><br /> Tom Holert</p> <p><b>Charter Citizen</b><br /> Tyler Coburn</p> <p><b>Art. Democratism. Propaganda.</b><br /> Jonas Staal</p> <p><b>The Elegantly Strong Triad: Defamiliarizing the Family in Works by LaToya Ruby Frazier and Henrik Olesen </b><br /> Antke Engel</p> <p><b>Genres of Capitalism, Part I </b><br /> Stephen Squibb</p> <p><b>The New Way of the World, Part II: The Performance/Pleasure Apparatus</b><br /> Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval</p>