Dear Readers, welcome to the fiftieth issue of e-flux journal. It marks our official five-year anniversary. It’s hard to believe. To celebrate this, we invite all of you who happen to be in New York next Tuesday, December 17, to a party we are organizing at China Chalet. Join us for drinks and music, we will be there from 9pm until the night ends…

Editorial
Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle

From the Blue Planet to Google Earth
Ursula K. Heise

Entering the Flow: Museum between Archive and Gesamtkunstwerk
Boris Groys

Towards the Possible Film (A Script with Some Notable Interruptions)
Shezad Dawood

If You Prick Us, Do We Not Bleed? No
Jalal Toufic

Captives of the Cloud, Part III: All Tomorrow’s Clouds
Metahaven

The Device Laid Bare: On Some Limitations in Current Art Criticism
Grant Kester