In more than 60 texts, first published on-site at 56th Venice Biennale, artists and writers trace the negative collective that is the subject of contemporary life.
“Supercommunity traverses every experience, every struggle. It gives voice to art as it does to social critique, to the critique of science in the same way as the syndicalism of the old and new labour-power, to the struggle of artists as precarious workers and the precarious workers as artists.”
—Antonio Negri
“I am the supercommunity, and you are only starting to recognize me. I grew out of something that used to be humanity. Some have compared me to angry crowds in public squares; others compare me to wind and atmosphere, or to software.”
Invited to exhibit at the 56th Venice Biennale, e-flux journal produced a single issue over a four-month span, publishing an article a day both online and on site from Venice.
In essays, poems, short stories, and plays, artists and theorists trace the negative collective that is the subject of contemporary life, in which art, the internet, and globalization have shed their utopian guises but persist as naked power, in the face of apocalyptic ecological disaster and against the claims of the social commons.
Introduction by Antonio Negri. Edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle; with guest-edited sections by Raqs Media Collective, Tom Holert, Natasha Ginwala, Boris Groys, Pedro Neves Marques.
In more than 60 texts, first published on-site at 56th Venice Biennale, artists and writers trace the negative collective that is the subject of contemporary life.
“Supercommunity traverses every experience, every struggle. It gives voice to art as it does to social critique, to the critique of science in the same way as the syndicalism of the old and new labour-power, to the struggle of artists as precarious workers and the precarious workers as artists.”
—Antonio Negri
“I am the supercommunity, and you are only starting to recognize me. I grew out of something that used to be humanity. Some have compared me to angry crowds in public squares; others compare me to wind and atmosphere, or to software.”
Invited to exhibit at the 56th Venice Biennale, e-flux journal produced a single issue over a four-month span, publishing an article a day both online and on site from Venice.
In essays, poems, short stories, and plays, artists and theorists trace the negative collective that is the subject of contemporary life, in which art, the internet, and globalization have shed their utopian guises but persist as naked power, in the face of apocalyptic ecological disaster and against the claims of the social commons.
Introduction by Antonio Negri. Edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle; with guest-edited sections by Raqs Media Collective, Tom Holert, Natasha Ginwala, Boris Groys, Pedro Neves Marques.
Category
Technology, Internet, Contemporary Art, Utopia, Surveillance & Privacy, Nature & Ecology, Migration & Immigration, Labor & Work, Globalization
Subject
Biennials, Networks, Post-Internet, Contemporaneity, Anthropocene, Apocalypse, Art Criticism, Transhumanism, Cosmism, Social Media, Science Fiction, Psychogeography, Postcolonialism, Ontology, Nihilism, Knowledge Production, Internet Art, Institutional Critique, Immaterial Labor, Human - Nonhuman Relations, Artistic Research