e-flux Journal #19

<p>The tension in contemporary culture formulated in terms of a hackneyed clash between premodern tradition and fully modernized enlightened subjects has proven to be a dangerous one—and it has easily given way to patently racist scenarios in which premodern tribal types (such as the EU citizens who happen to be Roma) invade fully modern Western metropolises. It seems much more useful, and interesting, to consider these conditions to be one and the same—two sides of a single, irreconcilable anxiety with regard to cultural tradition, the promises of modernism, and the shortcomings of both. From this singular vantage point, we can perhaps discern something like a primary limit—which can also be a raw material—guiding our very ability to produce, or even reflect, culture today…</p> <p><b>Editorial</b><br /> Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle</p> <p><b>The Off-Modern Mirror</b><br /> Svetlana Boym</p> <p><b>People of Intensity, People of Power: The Nietzsche Economy</b><br /> Diedrich Diederichsen</p> <p><b>Marx After Duchamp, or The Artist’s Two Bodies</b><br /> Boris Groys</p> <p><b>On Sindoan: Some Scattered Views on Tradition and “The Sublime”</b><br /> Park Chan-Kyong</p> <p><b>What Is the Sum of Recurrently?</b><br /> Jalal Toufic</p>