e-flux Journal #80

<p>Division is the characteristic habit of humanity: ēthos anthropōi daimōn, as Heraclitus had it. Demons for division, we divide and are divided. Taken over by divisions within ourselves, the demonic appears as the divided self. Wherever the self realizes an apparent struggle, whenever one is possessed by another, the demon is present. Possession dramatizes self-production as a fight for local control. Demonology is the science of these heteronomous selves, these others inside us. “From the beginning,” Boris Groys writes in this issue, “the contemporary artist is demonic: he is possessed by himself and cannot be relieved of his demons”…</p> <p><strong>Editorial</strong><br /> Editors</p> <p><strong>Black Circuit: Code for the Numbers to Come</strong><br /> Amy Ireland</p> <p><strong>Black Mirror Body</strong><br /> Charles Tonderai Mudede</p> <p><strong>Dmitri Prigov: Haunted Spaces</strong><br /> Boris Groys</p> <p><strong>On Being Present Where You Wish to Disappear</strong><br /> Nana Adusei-Poku</p> <p><strong>Difference and Self-Determination</strong><br /> Achille Mbembe</p> <p><strong>More Than One Language</strong><br /> Barbara Cassin</p> <p><strong>The Missing Front Line</strong><br /> Carol Yinghua Lu</p> <p><strong>Assemblism</strong><br /> Jonas Staal</p>