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e-flux was started by artists in 1999. Online, e-flux spans numerous strains of critical discourse in art, architecture, film, and theory, and connects many of the most significant art institutions with audiences around the world.

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

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

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.

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Kinoki @kinokiofficial.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

🤝 @eflux.bsky.social www.e-flux.com/notes/678338...

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.

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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

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 buff.ly/CVlcZP7

Totality and Feminist Life: Reading Silvia Federici on Lukács’s Aesthetics - Journal #155

Stevphen Shukaitis reads Silvia Federici’s PhD dissertation on György Lukács.

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Jeffrey West Kirkwood @jeffreykirkwood.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

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

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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

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Bard College @bardcollege.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

@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.”

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

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thomas waller @thomaswaller.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

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...

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Tanya Goldman @tanyagoldman.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

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

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Matthew Rana @mdrana.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

“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

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...

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Pietro Bianchi @pietrobianch1.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

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 www.e-flux.com/notes/673042...

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.

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Michael Snydel @snydel.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

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...

Satyajit Ray on filmmaking - Notes - e-flux

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Pietro Bianchi @pietrobianch1.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

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...

Cannes 2025 Dispatch, Pt. 1 - Notes - e-flux

Pietro Bianchi reflects on the “festival film,” in the first of two reports from Cannes 2025.

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

"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 www.e-flux.com/journal/144/...

a voice in my brain rolled up on skeins in cells - Journal #144

Alice Notley interviewed by curator Daniel Muzyczuk.

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Sarah Hennies @sarahhennies.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

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/...

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.

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

"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

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.

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Andreas Petrossiants @apetrossiants.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

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/...

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.

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Miautics @miautics.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

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? www.e-flux.com/notes/666036...

For An Ecology of Images - Notes - e-flux

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

e-flux @eflux.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

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. www.e-flux.com/criticism/66...

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

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Pietro Bianchi @pietrobianch1.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

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! www.e-flux.com/notes/663953...

In Praise of a Dinosaur: Toni Negri - Notes - e-flux

Pietro Bianchi reviews the first volume of Antonio Negri’s autobiography.

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Svensk curatorförening @curatorsweden.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

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

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.

e-flux @eflux.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

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. www.e-flux.com/criticism/66...

EDITORS' LETTER: - Criticism - e-flux

Aby Warburg famously described art history as “ghost stories for grown-ups.”

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Oliver Basciano @olibasciano.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

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

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

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Andreas Petrossiants @apetrossiants.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

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: www.e-flux.com/journal/152/...

Forms of Strife - Journal #152

Sven Lütticken traces the history and political potency of the concept of “forms of life.”

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Mikkel Krause Frantzen @mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Review of Finance Aesthetics Ib e-flux www.e-flux.com/notes/661679... Thanks to Andreas Petrossiants for reading and reviewing!

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.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

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.

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

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Fred Scharmen @sevensixfive.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

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

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...

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Pietro Bianchi @pietrobianch1.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

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. vimeo.com/1058822880/7...

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.

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rose-anne gush @rsenne.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

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

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.

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dominique routhier @routhier.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

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. www.e-flux.com/notes/660176...

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.

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

"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":

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

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Elena Vogman @elenavogman.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

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. www.e-flux.com/notes/648016...

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

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Tega Brain @tega.bsky.social · 29/06/2024

Wrote a new essay with @lav.io for eflux architecture. We consider carbon offsetting as a data driven scheme and trace a little of the history of market based approaches to environmental management. www.e-flux.com/architecture...

Spatial Computing - Tega Brain et al. - All that is Air Melts into Air

The goal is fungibility—to assert equivalence between activities by people or environments so that emissions created over here can be traded and (theoretically) compensated for by actions removing or ...

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Joseph Cermatori @cermatori.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

“Epic theater does not develop action but mirrors reality by making it strange (Verfremdung). Brecht’s theatrical images and captions, on the other hand, aim at ‘exorcizing their sensationalism.’” Worthwhile reading on Bertolt #Brecht as a visual artist. #collage #epictheater #eflux #bertoltbrecht

Bertolt Brecht’s Collages - Notes - e-flux

Isabel Jacobs surveys a new exhibiton of Bertolt Brecht’s collages.

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Pietro Bianchi @pietrobianch1.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

I'll give a talk at e-flux titled "The Optical Unconscious in the Digital Age". It's on Feb 27 at 7pm. If you're in New York hit me up www.e-flux.com/events/65204...

Pietro Bianchi: The Optical Unconscious in the Digital Age - Events - e-flux

A lecture by Pietro Bianchi on the framework of the optical unconscious in our contemporary digital universe.