e-flux Journal #58

<p>How do we invent bad criteria for rotten infrastructure, the sliding of norms to the always incomplete and the already broken? The hack, the stupid fix, the patch—these are songs sung out of holes and faults and leaks. We are only now discovering that the limits to our endurance are actually far more constitutive than our daydream fantasies of a wholeness based in currency that already functions perfectly well as toilet paper. This is past the Romantic tradition of inspired cataclysmic becoming and inside of its ruin only because it’s just not how things work out for most people who can’t afford to imagine themselves into concrete circumstances that will ever align with basic needs…</p> <p><b>Editorial—“Quasi-Events”</b><br /> Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle</p> <p><b>Holding Up the World, Part I</b><br /> Karrabing Film Collective</p> <p><b>Holding Up the World, Part II: Time/Bank, Effort/Embankments</b><br /> Elizabeth A. Povinelli</p> <p><b>Holding Up the World, Part III: In the Event of Precarity … A Conversation</b><br /> Lauren Berlant and Elizabeth A. Povinelli</p> <p><b>Holding Up the World, Part IV: After a Screening of When the Dogs Talked at Columbia University</b><br /> Audra Simpson, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, and Liza Johnson</p> <p><b>The Negative Floats: Questions of Earth Inheritance</b><br /> Natasha Ginwala and Vivian Ziherl</p> <p><b>Designs for a New World</b><br /> McKenzie Wark</p> <p><b>SO NOW!: On Normcore</b><br /> Rory Rowan</p> <p><b>“From Little Things, Big Things Grow”: The Unfurling of Wild Policy</b><br /> Tess Lea</p> <p><b>“Un solo palo no hace monte”: Notes on the Otherwise’s Inevitable Infecundity</b><br /> Gean Moreno and Ernesto Oroza</p> <p><b>Cosmos as Commons: An Activation of Cosmic Diplomacy</b><br /> Debbora Battaglia</p> <p><b>After the Fictions: Notes Towards a Phenomenology of the Multitude</b><br /> Dilip Gaonkar</p>