e-flux Journal #89

In Ursula Le Guin’s 1971 novel The Lathe of Heaven, a seemingly unassuming young white male begins effective dreaming. Desperate to stop altering realities by night, George Orr borrows other people’s pharmacy cards (the world is overpopulated, resources heavily rationed) to obtain more than his share of dexedrine and barbiturates. Landing himself in the hands of an oneirologist, he becomes a tool—a proxy to make the doctor’s megalomaniacal utilitarian fantasies real. The doctor suggests, and George dreams. “This was the way he had to go; he had no choice. He had never had any choice. He was only a dreamer”… Editorial Editors Homeland Security Stylesheet: Incest Font Tam Donner Content Industrial Complex Dena Yago Three Tendencies of Future Art Ben Davis Art Populism and the Alter-Institutional Turn Marco Baravate Learning from Machines, Seeing with a Thousand Eyes: On the Relevance of Russian Cosmism Natalya Serkova Art as the Overcoming of Death: From Nikolai Fedorov to the Cosmists of the 1920s Anastasia Gacheva Soylent Beige: The Middle Gray of Taste Travis Diehl 21 Paragraphs on Badiou Alexander R. Galloway

Editors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle

Contributors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle, Tam Donner, Dena Yago, Ben Davis, Marco Baravalle, Natalya Serkova, Anastasia Gacheva, Travis Diehl, Alexander R. Galloway