e-flux Index 2

We are delighted to announce the publication of the second issue of e-flux Index, available in print and digitally here. Ranging from short articles and reviews of exhibitions, books, and films, to extensive interviews, long-form essays and commentary, the contents of e-flux Index #2 map the rich complexity of discourse in the arts and adjacent fields. Published five times a year, e-flux Index recomposes content commissioned across e-fluxs Journal, Architecture, Criticism, Education, and Notes platforms, organizing texts thematically to draw out todays most vital strains of inquiry. Index #2 features e-fluxs February-March 2024 editorial breadth, encompassing contributions from 74 authors, artists, architects, filmmakers, and educators. If summer is for reading, our 500+ page Index is a good place to start. The Index #2 dawns with A Brand-New Day, in a section that watches the clock to parse the question of temporality in current artistic practice. It continues with Bad Circulation, which traces the figure of circulation struggles across a series of outwardly rippling concentric circles, from the circulation of militant texts for the Autonomists to the paradoxes of philanthrocapitalist gifting. Opening a window to ventilate the stale, dead air of the classical classroom, The Traveling of a Concept combines practical and theoretical approaches to radical and expanded pedagogy. In the next section, The Earth Is an Image, we zoom out, and further out still, to examine what gets made visible and what is occludedas is devastatingly evoked by Oraib Toikans text on the things the eye sees that the mind alone cannot decipher, within the context of Israels genocidal occupation of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Leaving Without a Suitcase draws its title from a description of Ilya Kabakovs famous total installation The Man Who Flew into Space from His Apartment, to gather together texts that examine the im/permeability of nations and their thresholds, as well as the condition of (forced) exile such borders produce. The Technocapitalist Gentry data-mines the fantasies, extracurricular pursuits, and downstream cultural impact of the capitalist class enriched beyond all hitherto known limits by the current AI tech boom. The Poetics of Relation meanwhile borrows its title from douard Glissants famous book, where he wrote of how our boats are open, and we sail them for everyone. The texts here open up onto horizons of intersubjectivity, hybridization, cosmopolitanism, and internationalism. We move in the next section from these open ideals into the exclusionary, xenophobic world of Americas Fox News Expanded Universe; in a compact selection of essays and discussions on modern or late fascisms and the forms of anti-fascism that seek to resist them. Transgenerational Witnessing meanwhile brings together pieces which interrogate the status of the home: not just a place to rest