The book displays a close up of a human brain with layers of memory and dreams visualized through a method of psychoanalysis and pharmacological propaganda. It is composed of two scientific researches that investigated the theme of memory and psychoanalysis. The first photos ever realized of sections of the human brain by psychiatric G. Jelgersma at the University of Leiden (1908-1911) are paired with the transcript of narcoanalytic sessions conducted by the controversial psychiatrist Prof. Jan Bastiaans at the end of the 1980’s. He used LSD as well as Pentothal, also known as the “truth serum” in the therapy of patients ...

Bill Sherman, director of the Warburg Institute, discusses the work of Frances Yates and Aby Warburg’s library.

What is consciousness? What is it like to feel pain, or to see the colour red? Do robots and computers really think? For that matter, do plants and amoebas think? If we ever meet intelligent aliens, will we be able to understand what they say to us? Philosophers and scientists are still unable to answer questions like these. Perhaps science fiction can help. In Discognition, Steven Shaviro looks at science fiction novels and stories that explore the extreme possibilities of human and alien sentience.

When will ‘reality’ stabilize again? Checking the incoming Covid-19 news, there is little doubt the virus has co-opted our daily routines for now. Here are some thoughts on dreams, consciousness, the virus.

Issue 123 of e-flux journal is guest-edited by the Critical Computation Bureau (CCB), a collective of researchers and writers working between technology and culture, computer science and information theory, aesthetics and politics. The members—Luciana Parisi, Ezekiel Dixon-Román, Tiziana Terranova, Oana Pârvan, and Brian D’Aquino—are situated in the US, the UK, and Southern Italy, and engage with networks spanning several continents to intervene in the techno-politics of racial capitalism and its recursive regeneration.

Businesspeople talk about art like artists talk about money: gratuitously, without compensation. Hired to talk about money, an entrepreneur will speak in terms of art. Put an artist on a panel and you will often get disquisitions on exchange, capital, and commerce. Both constituencies are compelled by what lies outside their professional responsibility, and the response to this compulsion vibrates between veneration and contempt. For every Übermensch crypto-expressionist billionaire patron, there is one who sneers at the foolish valuelessness of art history and its scribes. For every dedicated anticapitalist artist, there is one who happily understands themselves to be making ...

If we know that it is impossible for a photograph to be objective, then why do we rely so heavily on photography as evidence? In Episode Three, we speak with artists Lynn Hershman Leeson and American Artist to consider how AI can complicate our relationship to pictures we would otherwise think of as visual “proof.”

CONTENTS: Antanas Gerlikas introduces some of the words An afternoon at Algirdas Šeskus and Milda Šeškuviene’s with Aurime Aleksandraviciute, Gintaras Didžiapetris, Raimundas Malašauskas, Elena Narbutaite and Jonas Žakaitis Jonas Žakaitis talks with Ron Eglash Chris Fitzpatrick talks with Francis Heylighen Elena Narbutaite’s main idea CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE: Gintaras Didžiapetris is an artist based in Vilnius, Lithuania. Ron Eglash is a cyberneticist and ethno-mathematician based in New York, US. Chris Fitzpatrick is a curator and director of Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, Belgium. Antanas Gerlikas is an artist based in Vilnius, Lithuania. Francis Heylighen is a cyberneticist based in Brussels, Belgium. Raimundas Malašauskas is a curator based in Brussels, Belgium. Elena Narbutaite is an artist ...

Federico Campagna looks at Frances Yates’ work on the philosophy of mnemotechnics in her 1966 book The Art of Memory.

From the first human artistic expression in cave paintings until now, black has been constantly reinvented by art. Like other 20th-century artists (Rothko, Malevic, Klein) before him have done, Belgian Frederik De Wilde explores the nature of colors and produces monochromatic works, but focusing on black in a radical and scientific manner. In Hostage, as art historian Elise Aspord explains, he has created a material made up of a vertical alignment of nanotubes of carbon that can absorb almost all rays of light, thus giving a new universal reference for black. This work is the result of a close collaboration between ...

Conversation with artist, writer and curator Hamja Ahsan on the support campaign he organized for his brother Syed Talha Ahsan, his groundbreaking book Shy Radicals, his project at documenta fifteen and the hate campaign that he is receiving from some of the German media. Hamja talks openly about mental heath issues, islamophobia and the crucial support that he got from Anne Tallentire while he was studying at Central Saint Martins.

The original version of this play was staged as part of the Syndrome arts series in 2015 in Liverpool with CGI by Chris Boyd, projection mapping by Simon Jones and sculpture by Madeline Hall. A sagging of your face. A high-pitched noise like several insects turning on at dusk close to your left ear, certainly. And it is unlikely many of the symptoms of the neoplasm will stop once the neoplasm itself is removed, so although the removal is essentially inevitable the results it produces are permanent in the main. Channels which carry waste, filth from the surface, protective scum, bottlenecking, headaches, ...