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A copy of "Sick Architecture" edited by Beatriz Colomina on a plain background. The cover is solid red. "Sick" appears in white at center top of the cover, and "Architecture" appears in white at center bottom.

Through a diverse collection of essays, "Sick Architecture" studies the aesthetic, spatial, cultural, and material histories of illness and health to illustrate how architecture and sickness are surprisingly interwoven: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204968... @eflux.bsky.social

Exhibition as Séance at Seoul Mediacity Biennale with Anton Vidokle, Hallie Ayres, and Lukas Brasiskis - Notes - e-flux Anton Vidokle, Hallie Ayres, and Lukas Brasiskis discuss their approach to curating the 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale.

🤝 @eflux.bsky.social
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Totality and Feminist Life: Reading Silvia Federici on Lukács’s Aesthetics - Journal #155 Stevphen Shukaitis reads Silvia Federici’s PhD dissertation on György Lukács.

Anchored by Federici’s analysis of unpaid labor and capitalist accumulation, this text interrogates the entanglement of artistic labor, class struggle, and autonomy, tracing cultural work as both a site of exploitation and resistance.

By Stevphen Shukaitis in @eflux.bsky.social

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- Criticism - e-flux The terms for the 13th Berlin Biennale are set out in the first room of the KW Institute for Contemporary Art. On display is Armin Linke

I wrote about the 13th Berlin Biennale for @eflux.bsky.social www.e-flux.com/criticism/67...

Calling cards: the 2025 Graduate Student Curated Exhibitions - Features - Education - e-flux e-flux

@eflux.bsky.social reviewed CCS Bard’s Graduate Thesis Exhibition, where students present their thesis project after a year of work. Anthony Discenza writes, “the program’s dual emphasis on the critical and the professional can help foster deeper ways of engaging with the world.”

For @eflux.bsky.social, I wrote about Jaleh Mansoor’s new book and Marx’s metaphor of “universal prostitution” www.e-flux.com/notes/678337...

Had pleasure of attending my brillant friend @sbwatter.bsky.social’s talk and curated screening @eflux.bsky.social last night. Fascinating work!

New Silk Roads - Shahana Rajani - The Fleeting Line of a River Colonial maps and hydraulic technologies attempted to reorganize these mobile, water landscapes into a propertied and regulated geography. But in this soaking ecology, quite literally, the logic of th...

“For the communities of the [Indus River] delta… drawing a map for someone is a gesture of hospitality and generosity. Within the fleeting line of a river, someone opens up their world, their knowledge, their memories.”

Shahana Rajani in conversation with Nick Axel @eflux.bsky.social

Cannes 2025 Dispatch, Pt. 2 - Notes - e-flux Pietro Bianchi reflects on the unlikely endurance of the image, in the second of two reports from Cannes 2025.

My second and final dispatch from Cannes is out today on @eflux.bsky.social This time on Ari Aster,Spike Lee, Christian Petzold, Fatima Hassouna, the Tabor Collective, Jafar Panahi, Kleber Mendonça Filho and Bi Gan. See you next year Cannes. You’ve been good this time

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Satyajit Ray on filmmaking - Notes - e-flux …

I'm late in noticing this, but last month, @eflux.bsky.social published Satyajit Ray's 1965 essay, Film Making, which discusses his difficulties in making early films, his process, and his experiences with balancing budget and artistic vision. www.e-flux.com/notes/667654...

Cannes 2025 Dispatch, Pt. 1 - Notes - e-flux Pietro Bianchi reflects on the “festival film,” in the first of two reports from Cannes 2025.

My first dispatch from Cannes is out today on @eflux.bsky.social : some initial reflections on the festival, along with thoughts on Mascha Schilinski’s and Pedro Pinho’s films. So far, so good but more to come early next week www.e-flux.com/notes/671976...

a voice in my brain rolled up on skeins in cells - Journal #144 Alice Notley interviewed by curator Daniel Muzyczuk.

"All minimal music is about time, and other kinds of music are perhaps less about time than minimal music."

- Alice Notley in conversation with Daniel Muzyczuk via @eflux.bsky.social

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The Composer Keeps the Score: Writing Music, Sharing Power, Hearing Possibility - Journal #154 Sarah Hennies shares her journey to becoming a composer of experimental music.

I was asked to write about labor relations in score making for @eflux.bsky.social and ended up in some zones I hadn’t anticipated. Really like what I wrote here, hope you enjoy it: www.e-flux.com/journal/154/...

A copy of "On Arrows: Essays in British Architecture and its Environments" by Laurent Stalder on a white background. The book cover is black with various green arrows positioned as if to weave around the title.

"For Stalder, the (diagrammatic) arrow is the generator of architecture: it doesn’t mimic movement, but creates the conditions for it."

Isabelle Bucklow reviews "On Arrows" for @eflux.bsky.social:
www.e-flux.com/criticism/66... #architecture

The Test of Communism - Journal #153 Jasper Bernes argues that Marx’s value theory offers a method by which certain socialist proposals can be put to the test.

Excited to have an excerpt from Jasper Bernes's excellent forthcoming book in e-flux journal. Read it here: www.e-flux.com/journal/153/...

For An Ecology of Images - Notes - e-flux An excerpt from Peter Szendy’s For An Ecology of Images, published by Verso.

FOR AN ECOLOGY OF IMAGES
Peter Szendy via @eflux.bsky.social
Can we—must we—put under the sign of an ecology of images our effort to exit the sphere of an anthropocentric iconomy, a portmanteau of “icon” and “economy?
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Nicholas Gamso on François Pain - Criticism - e-flux In 1966, a young medical student named François Pain won an internship at the experimental Clinique de La Borde, outside the town of Cour-Cheverny

The films made by François Pain at La Borde psychiatric clinic—alongside Félix Guattari, among others—offer a more nuanced and ultimately more useful history of a much-mythologised experiment than the conventional hagiographies, writes Nicholas Gamso.

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In Praise of a Dinosaur: Toni Negri - Notes - e-flux Pietro Bianchi reviews the first volume of Antonio Negri’s autobiography.

Today on @eflux.bsky.social Notes I wrote about “Story of a Communist,” the first of three volumes of Toni Negri’s autobiography that has just been published in English. It is also a tribute, a little over a year after his passing. Viva Toni!

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Political Capture of the Arts in Sweden - Notes - e-flux Natasha Marie Llorens on the right-wing effort to control the arts sector in Sweden.

Board member Natasha Marie Llorens in E-flux about the merger and state of affairs in Sweden

EDITORS' LETTER: - Criticism - e-flux Aby Warburg famously described art history as “ghost stories for grown-ups.”

If art history is “ghost stories for grown-ups,” as Aby Warburg claims, then the most enduring works of art might be those that cannot easily be recuperated into our existing versions of reality, write the editors of e-flux Criticism.

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Oliver Basciano on “PinchukArtCentre Prize 2025” - Criticism - e-flux Everyone I meet in Kyiv is tired. Physically tired. Emotionally tired. Tired from the shrill loud whirl of the air raid app forcing them from sleep

Went to Kyiv for @eflux.bsky.social. People are tired, but the art is good. www.e-flux.com/criticism/66...

Forms of Strife - Journal #152 Sven Lütticken traces the history and political potency of the concept of “forms of life.”

Sven's essay in the most recent e-flux is a really sharp historicization and appraisal of the various ways the concept of "forms of life" have been taken up. Generatively, he then discusses the censorship of and attacks on Palestinian solidarity in Germany:
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Review of Finance Aesthetics: A Critical Glossary - Notes - e-flux Andreas Petrossiants reviews a new edited collection from Goldsmiths Press on the aesthetic dimensions of financialization.

Review of Finance Aesthetics Ib e-flux

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Thanks to Andreas Petrossiants for reading and reviewing!

On Peter Weiss’s The Aesthetics of Resistance, Volume III - Notes - e-flux …

Here's the first review of Volume 3 of the English edition of Peter Weiss's epic "The Aesthetics of Resistance." Writing in @eflux.bsky.social , Tom Allen praises the translation by Joel Scott.

Off-Earth - Fred Scharmen - Code Space Architecture and infrastructure mediate our relationship with pre-existing environments. When the environment in question is as hostile as outer space, there is no existence possible without that medi...

I wrote for e-flux! About the inevitable need for building code in space www.e-flux.com/architecture...

2/27/25 - Pietro Bianchi This is "2/27/25 - Pietro Bianchi" by e-flux on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

The recording of my talk at @eflux.bsky.social is now online.
If you want the misfortune of hearing me rambling about psychoanalysis, the optical unconscious, the gaze and the digital image for more than an hour, here is your chance.

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Disinheriting the Violence of Colonial Modernity: Art, Exhibition-Making, and Infra/Intra-structural Critique - Journal #152 KJ Abudu examines the anti-colonial curating of Okwui Enwezor.

Disinheriting the Violence of Colonial Modernity: Art, Exhibition-Making, and Infra/Intra-structural Critique by KJ Abudu www.e-flux.com/journal/152/... @eflux.bsky.social

Whose Passions? On T. J. Clark’s Those Passions: On Art and Politics - Notes - e-flux Dominique Routhier reviews T. J. Clark’s new essay collection Those Passions: On Art and Politics.

I've got a new essay out today in @eflux.bsky.social on the occasion of T.J. Clark's new book.

I write about "what happens in paint," about art and politics, Trump, the 'mad sublimity' of the society of the spectacle in fascist overdrive, and the abolition of art.

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Francesca Wade on “A Book about Ray” - Criticism - e-flux I found myself in the Ray Johnson archive by accident. Last December, I attended a screening of How to Draw a Bunny (2002), Andrew L. Moor

"This is not an attempt to pin Johnson down, but a rich portrait shaped by his own repeated self-reinventions."

@eflux.bsky.social reviews Ellen Levy's beautifully illustrated volume, "A Book About Ray":

Sergei Eisenstein's notes as an attempt to develop his film based on Das Kapital. - Notes - e-flux …

fragments from Sergei Eisenstein's Capital Diaries just came out on e-flux film notes! translated by Michael Kunichika, with a brief intro by Michael and me.
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