Contents

Introduction, Antonio Negri

Supercommunity: Editors’ Introduction,
Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle

SUPERCOMMUNITY

1.Things Based on Real-Life Events, Ahmet Öğüt

2.Men of Bronze, Homes of Concrete, Ala Younis

3.Arsenic Dreams, Steven Shaviro

4.TBH IDK FTW, Sophia Al Maria

5.A Few Notes from an Extellectual, Hiwa K

6.Notes on the Abstract Strike, Antonio Negri

7.After Nihilism, after Technic: Sketches for a New Philosophical Architecture, Federico Campagna

8.The Extraordinary Adventures of Guy Fawkes, Ilya Budraitskis

9.Empire and Its Double: The Many Pavilions of the Islamic State, Jonas Staal

THE SOCIAL COMMONS: CITIZENS IN THE SHADE,
ALIENS IN THE SUN
with RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE

1.A Knot Untied in Two Parts, Raqs Media Collective

2.Botched Enlightenment: A Conversation, Leela Gandhi and Bhrigupati Singh

3.Theorizing Deposition: Transitional Stratigraphy, Disruptive Layers, and the Future, Uzma Z. Rizvi

4.The Memory of the Deluge and the Surface of Water, Showkat Kathjoo

5.Of Work Riots, Political Prisoners, and Workers Refusing to Leave the Factory—Translated through the Pages of Faridabad Workers’ News (2005–2015), Sher Singh and Shveta Sarda

6.Sharing Instinct: An Annotation of the Social Contract Through Shadow Libraries, Sean Dockray and Lawrence Liang

POLITICS OF SHINE
with TOM HOLERT

1.Blackout City, Tom Holert

2.Shiny, Douglas Coupland

3.Do You See It? Well, It Doesn’t See You!, Anne Anlin Cheng and Tom Holert

4.Plastic Shine: From Prosaic Miracle to Retrograde Sublime, Carolyn L. Kane

5.Heart of Brightness, Arjuna Neuman

6.Surface Encounters, Giuliana Bruno

7.On Solar Databases and the Exogenesis of Light, Matteo Pasquinelli

“ART”

1.On the Documentary, Harun Farocki

2.Art after the Machines, Mohammad Salemy

3.Crimes without a Scene: Qian Weikang and the New Measurement Group, Liu Ding and Carol Yinghua Lu

4.Made to Fit, or The Gathering of the Balloons, Maria Lind

5.Give Back to Your Alma Mater!, Julieta Aranda and Brian Kuan Wood

6.The Making of Americans (2011), Gertrude Stein

7.Provincialism Perfected: Global Contemporary Art and Uneven Development, David Hodge and Hamed Yousefi

THE ART OF WORK

1.Thinking About Art Thinking, Luis Camnitzer

2.Construction with Steel and Technology, Nina Power

3.Online Digital Artwork and the Status of the “Based-In” Artist, Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.)

4.Laboring One to Seven (Island of Terror), Guy Mannes-Abbott

5.On Direct Action: An Address to Cultural Workers, Global Ultra Luxury Faction (G.U.L.F.)

6.Weapons-Grade Pig Work, Liam Gillick

CORRUPTION: EVERYBODY KNOWS …
with NATASHA GINWALA

1.Corruption: Three Bodies, and Ungovernable Subjects, Natasha Ginwala

2.The Fruitarian Dilemma: A Dialogue about Kissing Ass, Corruption, and Compromise, Yin-Ju Chen and James T. Hong

3.Torn Together, Jan Verwoert

4.Soaking in the Daily Curses: A Conversation, Hassan Khan and Natasha Ginwala

5.Traitors, a Mutable Lexicon, Naeem Mohaiemen

6.Windjarrameru, the Stealing C*nts, Elizabeth A. Povinelli

7.Why We Look at Plants, in a Corrupted World, Hu Fang

8.The Corruption of the Eye: On Photogenesis and Self-Growing Images, Wietske Maas

9.You Can’t Ask Everyone to Behave Ethically Just Like That, Aaron Schuster

10.Supercritical Decay, Charles Stankievech

PLANETARY COMPUTING (IS THE UNIVERSE
ACTUALLY A GIGANTIC COMPUTER?)

1.Turk, Toaster, Task Rabbit, Julieta Aranda and Ana Teixeira Pinto

2.The Alchemic Digital, the Planetary Elemental, Jussi Parikka

3.Mercury Retrograde, Emily Segal

4.The Great Silence, Allora & Calzadilla and Ted Chiang

5.ARGUS-IS: An Almost Cock-and-Bull Story, Adam Kleinman

6.Eating Glass: The New Propaganda, Metahaven

7.The Loop, Kader Attia

8.La Ville Souvenir, Ernesto Oroza and Gean Moreno

COSMOS
with BORIS GROYS

1.Cosmic Anxiety: The Russian Case, Boris Groys

2.Second Advents: On the Issue of Planning in Contemporary Art, Arseny Zhilyaev

3.Why Preserve the Name “Human”?, Keti Chukhrov

APOCALYPSIS
with PEDRO NEVES MARQUES

1.Look Above, the Sky is Falling: Humanity before and after the End of the World, Pedro Neves Marques

2.Apocalypsis, or The Dragon in Her Cave, Jimmie Durham

3.Uncommoning Nature, Marisol de la Cadena

4.The Changing of the Gods of Reason: Cecil John Rhodes, Karoo Fracking, and the Decolonizing of the Anthropocene, Lesley Green

5.Nomos and Cosmos, Adrian Lahoud

6.ISIS and the CIA Vie for the Claim to Divinity, Jon Rich

7.Is There Any World to Come?, Déborah Danowski and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro

Notes

Illustration Credits