e-flux Journal #77

<p>Early in the new century, it is already clear that the vanguards of the last one were less a singular, sequential telos than a symptomatic cycle. Movements like impressionism, abstraction, conceptualism, or symbolism are more like weather patterns that recur under certain circumstances than historical exceptions never to be repeated. There are everyday sprinkles of impressionism which relate to a Monet in the same way that the average rainstorm relates to a hurricane. In “Towards the New Realism,” Boris Groys examines the revival of what is still the most suggestive and polyamorous of these commitments, the pursuit of the real. Under what circumstances does reality appear in need of partisan support? Is the real something that is produced by institutions or something betrayed by them?…</p> <p><strong>Editorial</strong><br /> Editors</p> <p><strong>Towards the New Realism</strong><br /> Boris Groys</p> <p><strong>Why Are People Being So Nice?</strong><br /> Martha Rosler</p> <p><strong>Analytical Conceptualism</strong><br /> Victor Skersis</p> <p><strong>Citizen Subject</strong><br /> Étienne Balibar</p> <p><strong>The Incomputable and Instrumental Possibility</strong><br /> Antonia Majaca and Luciana Parisi</p> <p><strong>Decolonization as the Horizon of Political Action</strong><br /> Irmgard Emmelhainz</p> <p><strong>Institutional Liberation</strong><br /> Not An Alternative</p> <p><strong>Digital Provenance and the Artwork as Derivative</strong><br /> McKenzie Work</p>