Tech is never simply technology. It never appears in the abstract, any more than the characters “H20″ appear anywhere on water. Tech is always specific. How old should someone be when they first have sex? How old ... Read more →

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 ... Read more →

The word “data” comes from the Latin dare, which means “give.” This evolves into datum, which signifies something given. Data is what is given; Big Data, many given somethings. Gifts are given, too, but it’s hard to think ... Read more →

The freeport method of art storage presents its critics with a problem. Is it something new? Or something old? What could be less surprising than an international aristocracy hiding treasures in a cave someplace? The CEO ... Read more →

e-flux journal: New Issue, New Editor, New Book! We are very pleased to welcome Stephen Squibb to the editorial team of e-flux journal. Since his days at the studio of Martha Rosler, Stephen has been a long time collaborator ... Read more →

The choice of cover image for this issue of e-flux journal came down to two photos: a decrepit military airplane lingering in a remote gray field, evoking long forgotten battles of a distant war; and a picture ... Read more →

After a short prelude in last summer’s four-month Supercommunity issue for the 2015 Venice Biennale, we are pleased to present Coco Fusco’s full special issue of e-flux journal focusing on Cuban artists and intellectuals’ intricate navigation of ... Read more →

In Djibril Diop Mambéty’s 1992 dark comedy Hyènes, an extravagantly wealthy woman returns to her poor village seeking revenge. Her target is the man who humiliated her in her youth by getting her pregnant and abandoning her. ... Read more →

More than ever, architects today are called upon to build gestural landmarks and grandiose signature buildings. But architecture was never only about building. It is also about the flows of people, information, and resources that shape ... Read more →

e-flux journal has been invited to participate in the Venice Biennale this year. For our contribution we’ve decided to address e-flux journal and its readership as the supercommunity. Under this premise we will create a single issue of ... Read more →

Architecture remains the most tangible way of constructing the social. Yet, the system we call “architecture” is not reducible to the physical, the tactile, the obvious. In the history of avant-garde architecture, immateriality and intangibility carried ... Read more →

We have a soft spot for people, for our own humanity. We learn to nurture this soft spot through art, through philosophy, through democracy, through our notions of justice or the rights of humans. We learn ... Read more →

Increasingly it seems like no large exhibition opens without an artist boycott. And the reasons to withdraw are legitimate—a gulf museum employs migrant labor under terms approaching slavery, a biennial sponsor corporation operates an offshore detention ... Read more →

Shine and shininess are characteristic of surface effects, of glamour and spectacle, of bling-bling contingency, of ephemeral novelty, value added, and disposable fascination. Shine is what seizes upon affect as its primary carrier to mobilize attention. Shine could be ... Read more →

e-flux journal issue 60 out now with Michael Pepi, Porter McCray, Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Hito Steyerl, Ali Shamseddine and John Rich, Arseny Zhilyaev, Jonas Staal, and Anna Tzini www.e-flux.com/issues/60-december-2014 The museum may now be assuming a new function in the network. It is being reformatted as a ... Read more →

Organized in collaboration with Antje Ehmann and Doreen Mende, this issue of e-flux journal pays tribute to Harun Farocki (January 9, 1944–July 30, 2014) with a series of essays and reflections on his work and life by ... Read more →

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 ... Read more →

Francis Fukuyama, and even his mentor Alexandre Kojève before him, warned of boredom, stasis, and homogeneity being characteristics of the “universal homogenous state” that would mark the end of history. As Fukuyama put it: in the ... Read more →

In the summer of 1989, Francis Fukuyama published his infamous essay declaring the global triumph of free-market liberal democracy over communism as the end of ideology as such. Not only that, but he also claimed the ... Read more →

We are increasingly faced with premodern foundation myths coming from right-wing propaganda and grassroots movements alike. They tell us that some things don’t change and they ask us to think about how original communities are constituted. ... Read more →

Spring is here, so we are naturally thinking about sex all the time. It was a busy winter with many personal calamities and meltdowns, and this only makes now a better time to think about sex. ... Read more →

One common explanation for why intellectual property makes no sense in an era of file-sharing uses the example of what happens when you copy a file on a computer. Copy-Paste: a second file has been produced, ... Read more →

Neoliberalism began as the idea that economic rationality could be applied as a model of governance in place of political ideology. No more authoritarianism. Just the rational calculation of people’s needs and wants. But now we ... Read more →

Thanks to everyone who came out to our fifth anniversary party in December. It’s 2014 now and we are still hungover. But we want to tell you about a very strange thing that happened to us ... Read more →

Dear Readers, welcome to the fiftieth issue of e-flux journal. It marks our official five-year anniversary. It’s hard to believe. To celebrate this, we invite all of you who happen to be in New York next Tuesday, ... Read more →

In 2003, Slavoj Žižek made a very prescient observation to explain how the US under George Bush used a plot twist borrowed from Alfred Hitchcock to justify the invasion of Iraq. He called it the “Iraqi ... Read more →

Once there was an idea of a vast human family ready to realize humanistic ideals and internationalist partnerships like the United Nations, and some people called it Globalism. But then the idea got bundled with a ... Read more →

Where do artifacts go when they are destroyed? They enter a void of historical erasure, of fabricated narratives and convenient amnesia. We used to call that place a museum. But what happens when a museum is ... Read more →

Where did the critical tradition of art go? Maybe that’s the wrong question. Because we know the answer. It went into spectacle. It went into finance. It got privatized, democratized, scrutinized, defunded, bureaucratized, then professionalized. The ... Read more →

In April, Mark Epstein from the Cooper Union Board of Trustees announced the end of fully subsidized education across the college’s art, engineering, and architecture schools. It was a closing chapter in a ferocious battle in ... Read more →

We are in the middle of a time in which classical notions of flexibility and freedom actually work to alienate our relations to one another. But in fact the ability to shift, to deviate, to morph ... Read more →

In last month’s editorial for the February issue of e-flux journal, we proposed that the communication networks that now saturate our working and private lives have forced us to become cosmopolitan creatures. Our relations to place and ... Read more →

Sitting at home, you dream of living in places you barely know. And yet, you feel like a tourist in your own city. Maybe you should get out more. But when you do go out, you ... Read more →

Celebrating the arrival of 2013 on New Year’s Eve, many people must have wondered why they still existed. Wasn’t the world supposed to end on December 21 with the Mayan apocalypse? You don’t have to be a ... Read more →

After an all-night conversation with an old friend, you are ready to start the revolution together. But the next day, discussing the finer points over breakfast you realize, no, it’s impossible—in fact, this friend is actually ... Read more →

When Hurricane Sandy tore through the Eastern US on the eve of the presidential elections, it seemed that a certain fatigue had found a strange mirror image in the libidinal force of completely absurd weather patterns, ... Read more →

To get rid of violence, you have to get rid of people, Tariq Ramadan once said in an interview. Of course, Ramadan meant this as an impossibility and a warning against overzealous idealism. But what an ... Read more →

It is hard to avoid the feeling these days that the future is behind us. It’s not so much that time has stopped, but rather that the sense of promise and purpose that once drove historical ... Read more →

For the Summer 2012 issue of e-flux journal we are very pleased to present a special “Animism” issue guest-edited by Anselm Franke, curator of the exhibition by the same name. Even if you missed Animism on tour in ... Read more →

This month in e-flux journal, we are pleased to present a special issue focusing on Moscow Conceptualism, guest-edited by Boris Groys in conjunction with an exhibition of the work of Andrei Monastyrski and Collective Actions, curated ... Read more →

Released on October 8, the second issue of the Occupied Wall Street Journal included an editorial note entitled “No list of demands,” responding to the perceived absence of strong messaging offered by the movement. The note specified that: The ... Read more →

In the February 2009 issue of e-flux journal, Luis Camnitzer suggested in his essay “Art and Literacy” that a core problem in education (particularly for artists) can be traced back to an early stage when one is ... Read more →

e-flux journal Issue 24 April 2011 Let’s be clear about something: it is infuriating that most interesting artists are ... Read more →

Issue no. 23 Available online:e-flux.com/journal ... Read more →

e-flux is pleased to announce the release of Boris Groys’ Going Public, the third in an ongoing series of books published by e-flux journal with Sternberg Press. If all things in the world can be considered as ... Read more →

Issue # 21 December 2010 Available online:e-flux.com/journal Could ... Read more →

Issue 20 November 2010 Available online:e-flux.com/journal Should everything be ... Read more →

Issue #19 October 2010 Available online:e-flux.com/journal e-flux journal at the New York Art Book Fair: Book launch ... Read more →

Issue #18 September 2010 Available online:e-flux.com/journal Issue 18 ... Read more →

Dear Readers, Since we started e-flux journal, we have been developing an experimental print on demand system to make printed copies of the journal available at your local museum, art school, bookshop, library, or art space. We ... Read more →

e-flux journal no. 17: In Search of the Postcapitalist Self is guest-edited by Marion von Osten as her contribution to the 6th Berlin Biennale. Summer 2010 Available online:e-flux.com/journal/issue/17 A number of alternate, informal approaches to art and economy that ... Read more →

Issue #16 May 2010 Available online:e-flux.com/journal Things would be much simpler if there existed a consistent means of evaluating art’s capacity to provide a concrete value for people. It’s a problem to which capital provides the most immediate solution—beyond ... Read more →

Issue #15 April 2010 Available online:http://e-flux.com/journal In a recent BBC documentary on “objectum sexuals”—people who have loving relationships with inanimate objects—Erika Naisho Eiffel spoke about her love affair with an archer’s bow: “We were just such a great team ... Read more →

e-flux journal – issue #9 October 2009 Available online: http://e-flux.com/journal The aesthetics of political engagement has become common currency within artistic production and discourse, and the abundance of works and exhibitions now announcing themselves as politically charged are often criticized ... Read more →

e-flux journal issue #8 September 2009 Available online:http://e-flux.com/journal This issue marks the beginning of e-flux journal‘s second year. The open-ended editorial model seems to be working—contributors have frequently chosen to borrow, extend, or elaborate upon concerns opened up by ... Read more →

e-flux journal – issue #7 Summer 2009 Available online:http://e-flux.com/journal The processes of the factory have entered the museum in ways that Warhol and Duchamp could never have dreamed: the amount of art production now by far exceeds what ... Read more →

e-flux journal issue #6: EXCAVATING THE FUTURE May 2009 Available online:http://e-flux.com/journal Projections of the future that were made in the past are often striking in their bold naïvete—didn’t people understand then that future projections always end up looking like ... Read more →

e-flux journal issue #5 April 2009 Available online: http://e-flux.com/journal It’s worthwhile to question the field of art from time to time, to demand to know its basic motives and intentions. Where is all this production actually heading? How do we ... Read more →

e-flux journal issue #4 March 2009 available online: http://www.e-flux.com/journal print on demand coming soon contact: [email protected] Issue #4 Editorial Much of the tension within the sphere of contemporary art is generated by the insularity of the art context, which often prompts artists to be ... Read more →

e-flux journal issue #3 February 2009 available online: http://www.e-flux.com/journal print on demand coming soon contact: journal[email protected] Issue #3 Editorial These days, it is fairly clear that we consider art to be a trans-disciplinary field in a position to nurture other disciplines, and to be ... Read more →

e-flux journal issue #1 December 2008 – January 2009 available online: http://e-flux.com/journal print on demand coming soon Issue #1 Editorial Following the recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai, doctor and New Age guru Deepak Chopra commented on CNN that perhaps the worst thing ... Read more →