Illustrated essays that consider emergent consistencies and
overarching issues that defined the first decade of e-flux journal.
In Wonderflux you will find yourself in front of disappearing mirrors
held up to curators, critics, and artists; sailing through
counterfactual universes; face-to-face with cold-blooded killers,
faceless men, weary but buoyant prophets; all the while imbued with
stubborn thriving and stubborn refusal to be moved or monetized, and
once in a while having earnest conversations with robot(s and) workers.
The authors included here have shaped the varied concerns and urgencies
of e-flux journal since 2008. As a theory-driven art journal made up
entirely of hypertext and digital images and embraced by academic
circles, we sometimes wonder about the artistic and sensual use of text
and image. Does the thinking of some of our favorite authors also speak
to a place beyond floods of automatic links and references and
rectangular photographic portals? To a broader and more applied artistic
domain like the imaginative sensibility of illustration, where entire
worlds arise from the simple and deliberate placement of lines on paper?
Contributors
Franco "Bifo" Berardi and Andrew Alexander, Raqs Media Collective &
Freddy Carrasco, Liam Gillick, Elizabeth A. Povinelli & Clara Bessijelle
Johansson, Martha Rosler & Josh Neufeld, Reza Negarastani & Keith
Tilford, Hu Fang & Mojo Wang, Keller Easterling & Meijia Xu
