e-flux Journal #141

Last month, Documenta 16’s Finding Committee resigned en masse following the resignations of Bracha L. Ettinger and Ranjit Hoskoté. In his written resignation, Hoskoté explained the high irony of being accused of anti-Semitism for having signed an online petition against an event hosted by the Israeli Consulate to India in 2019. The event drew an alliance between Zionism and Hindutva, the Hindu ultranationalist ideology that was inspired by European fascism and that proposed Hitler’s policy for Jews as a method for dealing with Indian Muslims. Yet Germany’s culture minister, Claudia Roth, denounced the obscure 2019 petition Hoskoté signed as “clearly anti-Semitic” for describing Zionism as “racist” and Israel as a “settler-colonial apartheid state,” threatening to withdraw state funding if Documenta didn’t cut ties with Hoskoté. Editorial Editors A Positive Concept of Barbarism: Benjamin and the Consequences Sami Khatib On Paralysis, Pt. 1 Evan Calder Williams Cite, Sight, Site: Notes on Citation as a Gesture of Reproducibility Nkule Mabaso and Serubiri Moses Gesture as a Visual Language Amol K Patil Sightings Xinyue Liu To Follow the Grain Dorota Jagoda Michalska Le Nemesiache: Erupting Feminist Cosmologies Sonia D’Alto The Automation of General Intelligence Matteo Pasquinelli Precarious Solidarities: Artists for Democracy in Historical Perspective, Part 2 David Morris Proposal for Documenta 16 Manuel J. Borja-Villel and Vasıf Kortun

Editors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle

Contributors: Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle, Sami Khatib, Evan Calder Williams, Nkule Mabaso, Serubiri Moses, Amol K Patil, Xinyue Liu, Dorota Jagoda Michalska, Sonia D'Alto, Matteo Pasquinelli, David Morris, Manuel J. Borja-Villel, Vasıf Kortun