E-FLUX
INDEX #02

Editor: George MacBeth
20 x 25.5 cm
512 pages

Price: 230 lei


Contributions by Hallie Ayres, Nick Axel, Stephanie Bailey, Xenia Benivolski, Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Gail Brager, Lukas Braskisis, Evan Calder Williams, Luis Camnitzer, Gaby Cepeda, Adeline Chia, Jasmina Cibic, Phil Coldiron, Salmaan Craig, Benjamin Crais, Mark DeKay, T. J. Demos, Tom Denman, Ben Eastham, Mariana Fernández, Sylvie Fortin, Victor Galdino, Orit Gat, Gerhub, Boris Groys, Maddie Hampton, Lyn Hejinian, Hide and Seek Audiovisual Art, Vanessa Holyoak, Leigh House, Suzanne Hudson, Dylan Huw, Florian Idenburg, Ana Ivanovska Deskova, Isabel Jacobs, Tom Jeffreys, Juan José Santos, Christina Kiaer, Damjan Kokalevski, Anna Kornbluh, Ekaterina Kulinicheva, Michael Kurtz, Andres Lepik, Ye Liu, Antonia Majaca, Natasha Marie Llorens, Claudio Medeiros, Chris Murtha, Isadora Neves Marques, Charles Tonderai Mudede, Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh, Jason Read, Dominique Routhier, Noah Simblist, Anya Sirota, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Elena Sorokina, Jamila Squire, Jonas Staal, Łukasz Stanek, The New School Art Modality, Xu Tiantian, Oxana Timofeeva, Alberto Toscano, Ecosistema Urbano, Anton Vidokle, Elena Vogman, Xin Wang, Ben Ware, Seth Wheeler, Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, Zairong Xiang, Eugene Yiu Nam Cheung, Zhen Zhang, Arseny Zhilyaev.

540 pages long, this volume includes contributions from authors, artists, architects, filmmakers, poets, and theorists from many parts of the world. Ulises Carrión once declared that "In the new art every book requires a different reading"—an attitude which the Index here adopts in its approach to contemporary culture.

Ranging from short articles and reviews of exhibitions, books, and films, to extensive interviews, long-form essays, and new theoretical vernaculars, the new kaleidoscopicissue of e-flux Index reflects in eleven chapters on topics ranging from the technology of remembering in a forgetful era, to the saturation of contemporary imagery and the current state of photography, moving image, and appropriation art. In fast-changing times, Index 3 also responds to the current climate of cultural censorship over Palestine, and explores the fault-line between diversity and homogenization—from global food monocultures to architectural uniformity.

In two stand-alone chapters, the issue presentsthe first English translations of feminist writings from the 2022 Jina Uprising in Iran, and elsewhere explores the metabolic rifts of the climate crisis, from the curious origins of autotune in Exxon oil extraction to speculative essays on post-fossil fuel architecture. Index 3 also focuses on the role of notation in musical scores and performance scripts, eventually ending with a section that turns everything inside out to consider the potential for code-switching and the subversion of binaries in art and life.

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.