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Readings for a Tense and Momentous Week

Gentle greetings, world.

It is November 5, in the year 2020. We felt like sharing some words, sounds, and visions with you during this tense and momentous week. Below are just some of the many e-flux journal texts we’re reading, seeing, and listening through right now.

Wayne Koestenbaum—“Lounge Act at Thek Lounge [audio piece, performed just after the 2016 election]:

Martha Rosler and Josh Neufeld—“Food Riot? Food Riot! [comix about history with relevance to now]

Maïte Chénière—“Sonic S.cape [sound and video piece]

Demian DinéYazhi’—“An Infected Sunset (Excerpt)

Mary Walling Blackburn—“Swim to Us

Chuahtémoc Medina—“A History of Infinity and Some Fresh Catastophes

Christian Nyampeta—“‘In the Black Color of the Night’: Theology and Philosophy in Exile

Bifo—“The American Abyss

Brian Kuan Wood—“Insurgency of Life

Anton Vidokle—“Art and Sovereignty

Boris Groys—“Trump’s America and Playing the Victim

Jodi Dean and Kai Heron—“Revolution or Ruin

Liam Gillick—“A Building on 5th Avenue

Jonas Staal—“Climate Propagandas

Image from Liam Gillick, “A Building on Fifth Avenue”