Art Metropole

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e-fux Index #5

Price

$65.00

Date

2025

Publisher

e-flux

Format

Anthologies

ISBN

29971950

Size

20 × 25.5 × 3.6 cm

Length

472 pp

Genre

Arts Writing, Criticism, Theory, Available for Wholesale

This fifth issue of the e-flux Index, comprises nine new categories for sorting it all out. These are titled: Is That All There Is?; What a Body Can Do; The Physicists’ Laugh; Dens, clubs, hives, and cells; The Tourist; Flickers; Promethean Shame; Proxies; and Inextinguishable Fires. In the exploratory spirit of Bas Jan Ader’s Primary Time (1974) or Susan Hiller’s remarks on the forbidden childhood pleasures of taxonomizing, more than that of Linnaeus, each of these categories represents an attempt at daisy cutting samples from the dynamic, complex meadow of discourse across the arts, architecture, education, theory, and politics. This deviant taxonomy is not designed to reduce or abstract away from the complexity of critical discourse and artistic activity in the present moment, but rather to do justice to this very heterogeneity.

The fifth issue of e-flux Index features contributions from Rouzbeh Akhbari, Sanna Almajedi, Étienne Balibar, Rend Beiruti, Xenia Benivolski, Daniel Birnbaum, Hunter Bolin, Nathan Brown, Harry Burke, Luis Camnitzer, Mark Cinkevich, María Iñigo Clavo, Maya Deren, Jacob Dreyer, Anna Engelhardt, Solveig Font, Kenny Fries, Coco Fusco, Orit Gat, Leo Goldsmith, Ana María Gómez López, Andrea González Garrán, Boris Groys, Lauren van Haaften-Schick, Barbara Hammer, Dehlia Hannah, Isobel Harbison, Jörg Heiser, Yuk Hui, Kateryna Iakovlenko, Celia Irina González, Juan José Santos, Aubrey Knox, Hamlet Lavastida, Debra Lennard, Sophie Lewis, Julio Llópiz Casal, R.H. Lossin, Vijay Masharani, Azadeh Mashayekhi, Naeem Mohaiemen, Yanelys Nuñez Leyva, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Trevor Paglen, Furqat Palvan-Zade, Artavazd Peleshyan, Sol Pérez-Martinez, Precarious Workers Brigade, Irit Rogoff, Mila Samdub, Stephanie Sherman, Henk Slager, Jonas Staal, Bernard Stiegler, Thotti, Ina Valkanova, Elena Vogman, Pramodha Weerasekera, Evan Calder Williams, Virginia Woolf, and Gary Zhexi Zhang.

e-flux Index is a bimonthly print compendium of today’s most vital writing on art, culture, and theory from across e-flux’s publishing platforms. It combines long-form essays from e-flux Journal and Architecture, reviews of exhibitions, books, and films from e-flux Criticism, articles and interviews by students and teachers from e-flux Education, and opinion pieces from e-flux Notes, organizing them thematically to “index the arts” and archive the present.