e-flux Index / 7

As we myopically gaze at the handsets inches from our face, we are often encouraged by sensible apostles of “objectivity” to try and get some perspective; to zoom out, zoom up, and achieve something like a lofty bird’s-eye view on our situation.

 

e-flux Index #7 floats upward to give an aerial view over the terrain of everything e-flux published between December 2024 and February 2025. This peek through the porthole across three months worth of daily publishing gathers together long-form essays on contemporary culture and architecture, exhibition, book, and film reviews, profiles of artists, critical interjections, fresh translations from the historic avant-garde, and analytical dispatches from live political and social conjunctures. These have been recomposed into eleven thematic sections, to help us get some perspective (however vertiginous) on the present moment and emergent tendencies in critical discourse. Like Rhodes’ paintings, these sections are also spatially egalitarian, and they refuse the usual hierarchy of ordering texts. They are titled Vegetarians Miss Fewer Flights; Seeking Truth From Facts; Playtime; The Form Was Simple; Hardcore Diaries; Scratching on things I could disavow; Chronotopes; Walls of Complexity; Wet Concrete; We Want Everything; and They Are Shutting Off the Lights. Enjoy the flight!

 

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e-flux Index is a new print journal surveying the breadth of contemporary culture through e-flux’s publishing on art, theory, architecture, film, criticism, and art education.