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”