Title & Author:

Supercommunity : diabolical togetherness beyond contemporary art / e-flux journal ; edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle ; introduction by Antonio Negri.

Publication:

London ; New York : Verso, 2017.
©2017

Description:

viii, 464 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Part one. Supercommunity. Things based on real-life events / Ahmet Öğüt -- Men of bronze, homes of concrete / Ala Younis-- Arsenic dreams / Steven Shaviro -- TBH IDK FTW / Sophia Al Maria -- A few notes from an extellectual / Hiwa K -- Notes on the abstract strike / Antonio Negri -- After nihilism, after technic: Sketches for a new philosophical architecture / Federico Campagna -- The extraordinary adventures of Guy Fawkes / Ilya Budraitskis -- Empire and its double: The many pavilions of the Islamic State / Jonas Staal.
Part two. The social commons: citizens in the shade, aliens in the sun / with Raqs Media Collective. A knot untied in two part / Raqs Media Collective -- Botched enlightenment: a conversation / Leela Gandhi and Bhrigupati Singh -- Theorizing deposition: transitional stratigraphy, disruptive layers, and the future / Uzma Z. Rizvi -- The memory of the deluge and the surface of water / Showkat Kathjoo -- Of work riots, political prisoners, and workers refusing to leave the factory--translated through the pages of Faridabad Workers' News (2005-2015) / Sher Singh and Shveta Sarda -- Sharing instinct: an annotation of the social contract through shadow libraries / Sean Dockray and Lawrence Liang.
Part three. Politics of shine / with Tom Holert. Blackout city / Tom Holert -- Shiny / Douglas Coupland -- Do you see it? Well, it doesn't see you! / Anne Anlin Cheng and Tom Holert -- Plastic shine: from prosaic miracle to retrograde sublime / Carolyn L. Kane -- Heart of brightness / Arjuna Neuman -- Surface encounters / Giuliana Bruno -- On solar databases and the exogenesis of light / Matteo Pasquinelli.
Part four. "Art". On the documentary / Harun Farocki -- Art after the machines / Mohammad Salemy -- Crimes without a scene: Qian Weikang and the New Measurement Group / Liu Ding and Carol Yinghua Lu -- Made to fit, or the gathering of the balloons / Maria Lind -- Give me back to your alma mater! / Julieta Aranda and Brian Kuan Wood -- The making of Americans (2011) / Gertrude Stein -- Provincialism perfected: global contemporary art and uneven development / David Hodge and Hamed Yousefi.
Part five. The art of work. Thinking about art thinking / Luis Camnitzer -- Constructing with steel and technology / Nina Power -- Online digital artwork and the status of the "based-in" artist / Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.) -- Laboring one to seven (Island of Terror) / Guy Mannes-Abbott -- On direct action: an address to cultural workers / Global Ulta Luxury Faction (G.U.L.F.) -- Weapons-grade pig work / Liam Gillick.
Part six. Corruption: everybody knows ... / with Natasha Ginwala. Corruption: three bodies, and ungovernable subjects / Natasha Ginwala -- The fruitless dilemma: a dialogue about kissing ass, corruption, and compromise / Yin-Ju Chen and James T. Hong -- Torn together / Jan Verwoert -- Soaking in the daily curses: a conversation / Hassan Kahn and Natasha Ginwala -- Traitors, a mutable lexicon / Naeem Mohaiemen -- Windjarrameru, the stealing c*unts / Elizabeth A. Provinelli -- Why we look at plants, in a corrupted world / Hu Fang -- The corruption of the eye: on photogenesis and self-growing images / Wietske Maas -- You can't ask everyone to behave ethically just like that / Aaron Schuster -- Supercritical decay / Charles Stankievech.
Part seven. Planetary computing (is the universe actually a gigantic computer?). Turk, toaster, task rabbit / Juliet Aranda and Ana Teixeira Pinto -- The alchemic digital, the planetary elemental / Jussi Parikka -- Mercury retrograde / Emily Segal -- The great silence / Allora & Calzadilla and Ted Chiang -- ARGUS-IS: an almost cock-and-bull story / Adam Kleinman -- Eating glass: the new propaganda / Metahaven -- The loop / Kader Attia -- La Ville souvenir / Ernesto Oroza and Gean Moreno.
Part eight. Cosmos / with Boris Groys. Cosmic anxiety: the Russian case / Boris Groys -- Second advents: on the issue of planning in contemporary art / Arseny Zhilyaev -- Why preserve the name "human"? / Keti Chukhrov.
Part nine. Apocalypsis / with Pedro Neves Marques. Look above, the sky is falling: humanity before and after the end of the world / Pedro Neves Marques -- Apocalypsis, or the dragon in her cave / Jimmie Durham -- Uncommoning nature / Marisol de la Cadena -- The changing of the gods of reason: Cecil John Rhodes, Karoo fracking, and the decolonizing of the anthropocene / Lesley Green -- Nomos and cosmos / Adrian Lahoud -- ISIS and the CIA vie for the claim to divinity / Jon Rich -- Is there any world to come? / Déborah Danowski and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro.

Summary:

Leading artists, theorists, and writers exhume the dystopian and utopian futures contained within the present. Invited to exhibit at the 56th Venice Biennale, e-flux journal produced a single issue over a four-month span, publishing an article a day both online and on site from Venice. In essays, poems, short stories, and plays, artists and theorists trace the negative collective that is the subject of contemporary life, in which art, the internet, and globalization have shed their utopian guises but persist as naked power, in the face of apocalyptic ecological disaster and against the claims of the social commons. --From publisher description.

ISBN:

1786633590 (PB)
9781786633590 (PB)
9781786633583 (HB)
1786633582 (HB)
(UK EBK)
9781786633569
(US EBK)
9781786633576

Subject:

Art and society.
Globalization.
Social ecology.
Ecology.
Art et société.
Mondialisation.
Écologie sociale.
globalism.
human ecology.
Philosophy.
Gesellschaftskritik
Globalisierung
Kunst
Ökologie

Added entries:

Aranda, Julieta, editor.
Wood, Brian Kuan, editor.
Vidokle, Anton, editor.
Negri, Antonio, 1933- writer of introduction.
Biennale di Venezia (56th : 2015 : Venice, Italy)
E-flux journal (Series)

Diabolical togetherness beyond contemporary art

Holdings:

Location: Library main 298952
Call No.: BIB 245079
Status: Available