e-flux Journal #73

<p>All things have borders that make them what they are. Some borders are spatial, like the edge of a painting, and some are chronological, like the end of a play. In this issue, Vivian Ziherl and Maria Iñigo Clavo both attempt to translate modernity from a historical, chronological teleology into a spatial geography. Ziherl does this by drawing our attention to the persistence, within contemporary space, of that supposedly historical borderline, the frontier, while Clavo provides a taxonomy of the various prefixes, like post-, pre-, and anti-, that have been appended to the “modern” in order to conceal its violent distribution in space within a false sequence of time…</p> <p><b>Editorial </b><br /> Editors</p> <p><b>Toward an Ontology of Style</b><br /> Giorgio Agamben</p> <p><b>Our Common Critical Condition</b><br /> Claire Fontaine</p> <p><b>On the Frontier, Again</b><br /> Vivian Ziherl</p> <p><b>Queer Universal</b><br /> Rebekah Sheldon</p> <p><b>The Silence of the Lens</b><br /> David Claerbout</p> <p><b>Blu’s Iconoclasm and the End of the Dada Century</b><br /> Franco “Bifo” Berardi and Marco Magagnoli</p> <p><b>Freeportism as Style and Ideology: Post-Internet and Speculative Realism, Part II</b><br /> Stefan Heidenreich</p> <p><b>Modernity vs. Epistemodiversity</b><br /> María Iñigo Clavo</p>