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Sheila Whitaker

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New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future

by James Bridle

“New Dark Age is among the most unsettling and illuminating books I’ve read about the Internet, which is to say that it is among the most unsettling and illuminating books I’ve read about contemporary life.” – Mark O'Connell, The New Yorker

5 posts
Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film

by Giuliana Bruno

An award-winning cultural history of how we experience the world through art, film and architecture

6 posts
The Postconceptual Condition

by Peter Osborne

Tracking the postconceptual dimensions of contemporary art

2 posts
Supercommunity

by e-flux

Leading artists, theorists, and writers exhume the dystopian and utopian futures contained within the present

5 posts

Duty Free Art

by Hito Steyerl

What is the function of art in the era of digital globalization?

10 posts
Portraits

by John Berger

A lifetime’s encounter with artists: from prehistoric cave painting to the present

26 posts
The Ancients and the Postmoderns

by Fredric Jameson

Fredric Jameson sweeps from the Renaissance to The Wire

13 posts
Mural

by Mahmoud Darwish

Poetry from former national poet of Palestine, illustrated by original drawings by John Berger

12 posts

Strike Art

by Yates McKee

The collision of activism and contemporary art, from the Seattle protests to Occupy and beyond

5 posts
Bad New Days

by Hal Foster

One of the world’s leading art theorists dissects a quarter century of artistic practice

5 posts
Development Arrested

by Clyde Woods
A new edition of a classic history of the Mississippi River Delta
3 posts
War Primer

by Bertolt Brecht

A terrifying series of short poems by one of the world’s leading playwrights, set to images of World War II

9 posts

The Art of Cloning

by Laikwan Pang

Cultural production under Mao, and how artists and thinkers found autonomy in a culture of conformity

2 posts
Landscapes

by John Berger

“John Berger teaches us how to think, how to feel how to stare at things until we see what we thought wasn’t there. But above all, he teaches us how to love in the face of adversity. He is a master.” — Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things

18 posts
The Exform

by Nicolas Bourriaud

Author of the influential Relational Aesthetics examines the dynamics of ideology

3 posts
Extrastatecraft

by Keller Easterling
“An extraordinary guidebook to the politics of infrastructure in the contemporary world.” —Stephen Graham, author of Cities Under Siege
22 posts

Capital

by Kenneth Goldsmith
Acclaimed artist Kenneth Goldsmith’s thousand-page beautiful homage to New York City.
16 posts
The Perpetual Guest

by Barry Schwabsky

Leading art critic explores the connections between art’s past and present

6 posts
Last Futures

by Douglas Murphy

Whatever happened to the last utopian dreams of the city?

14 posts
Planet/Cuba

by Rachel Price
Transformations in Cuban art, literature and culture in the post-Fidel era
12 posts

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