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Index
Cover Page
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Title Page
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Contents
Introduction: Antonio Negri
Supercommunity: Editors’ Introduction: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle
Part One: Supercommunity
Things Based on Real-Life Events: Ahmet Öğüt
Men of Bronze, Homes of Concrete: Ala Younis
Arsenic Dreams: Steven Shaviro
TBH IDK FTW: Sophia Al Maria
A Few Notes from an Extellectual: Hiwa K
Notes on the Abstract Strike: Antonio Negri
After Nihilism, after Technic: Sketches for a New Philosophical Architecture: Federico Campagna
The Extraordinary Adventures of Guy Fawkes: Ilya Budraitskis
Empire and Its Double: The Many Pavilions of the Islamic State: Jonas Staal
Part Two: The Social Commons: Citizens in the Shade, Aliens in the Sun
A Knot Untied in Two Parts: Raqs Media Collective
Botched Enlightenment: A Conversation: Leela Gandhi and Bhrigupati Singh
Theorizing Deposition: Transitional Stratigraphy, Disruptive Layers, and the Future: Uzma Z. Rizvi
The Memory of a Deluge and the Surface of Water: Showkat Kathjoo
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
Sharing Instinct: An Annotation of the Social Contract Through Shadow Libraries: Sean Dockray and Lawrence Liang
Part Three: Politics of Shine with Tom Holert
Blackout City: Tom Holert
Shiny: Douglas Coupland
Do You See It? Well, It Doesn’t See You!: Anne Anlin Cheng and Tom Holert
Plastic Shine: From Prosaic Miracle to Retrograde Sublime: Carolyn L. Kane
Heart of Brightness: Arjuna Neuman
Surface Encounters: Giuliana Bruno
On Solar Databases and the Exogenesis of Light: Matteo Pasquinelli
Part Four: “Art”
On the Documentary: Harun Farocki
Art after the Machines: Mohammad Salemy
Crimes without a Scene: Qian Weikang and the New Measurement Group: Liu Ding and Carol Yinghua Lu
Made to Fit, or The Gathering of the Balloons: Maria Lind
Give Back to Your Alma Mater!: Julieta Aranda and Brian Kuan Wood
The Making of Americans (2011): Gertrude Stein
Provincialism Perfected: Global Contemporary Art and Uneven Development: David Hodge and Hamed Yousefi
Part Five: The Art of Work
Thinking About Art Thinking: Luis Camnitzer
Construction with Steel and Technology: Nina Power
Online Digital Artwork and the Status of the “Based-In” Artist: Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.)
Laboring One to Seven (Island of Terror): Guy Mannes-Abbott
On Direct Action: An Address to Cultural Workers: Global Ultra Luxury Faction (G.U.L.F.)
Weapons-Grade Pig Work: Liam Gillick
Part Six: Corruption: Everybody Knows … With Natasha Ginwala
Corruption: Three Bodies, and Ungovernable Subjects: Natasha Ginwala
The Fruitarian Dilemma: A Dialogue about Kissing Ass, Corruption, and Compromise: Yin-Ju Chen and James T. Hong
Torn Together: Jan Verwoert
Soaking in the Daily Curses: A Conversation: Hassan Khan and Natasha Ginwala
Traitors, a Mutable Lexicon: Naeem Mohaiemen
Windjarrameru, the Stealing C*nts: Elizabeth A. Povinelli
Why We Look at Plants, in a Corrupted World: Hu Fang
The Corruption of the Eye: On Photogenesis and Self-Growing Images: Wietske Maas
You Can’t Ask Everyone to Behave Ethically Just Like That: Aaron Schuster
Supercritical Decay: Charles Stankievech
Part Seven: Planetary Computing (Is the Universe Actually a Gigantic Computer?)
Turk, Toaster, Task Rabbit: Julieta Aranda and Ana Teixeira Pinto
The Alchemic Digital, the Planetary Elemental: Jussi Parikka
Mercury Retrograde: Emily Segal
The Great Silence: Allora & Calzadilla and Ted Chiang
ARGUS-IS: An Almost Cock-and-Bull Story: Adam Kleinman
Eating Glass: The New Propaganda: Metahaven
The Loop: Kader Attia
La Ville Souvenir: Ernesto Oroza and Gean Moreno
Part Eight: COSMOS With Boris Groys
Cosmic Anxiety: The Russian Case: Boris Groys
Second Advents: On the Issue of Planning in Contemporary Art: Arseny Zhilyaev
Why Preserve the Name “Human”?: Keti Chukhrov
Part Nine: Apocalypsis with Pedro Neves Marques
Look Above, the Sky is Falling: Humanity before and after the End of the World: Pedro Neves Marques
Apocalypsis, or The Dragon in Her Cave: Jimmie Durham
Uncommoning Nature: Marisol de la Cadena
The Changing of the Gods of Reason: Cecil John Rhodes, Karoo Fracking, and the Decolonizing of the Anthropocene: Lesley Green
Nomos and Cosmos: Adrian Lahoud
ISIS and the CIA Vie for the Claim to Divinity: Jon Rich
Is There Any World to Come?: Déborah Danowski and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
Notes
Illustration Credits
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