Published five times a year, e-flux Index recomposes content commissioned across e-flux’s Journal, Architecture, Criticism, Education, and Notes platforms, organizing texts thematically to draw out today’s most vital strains of inquiry. Following the success of the first two issues, Index #3 features e-flux’s commissioned pieces from April–May 2024. It includes 76 authors, artists, architects, filmmakers, and educators, organized according to eleven thematic sections.
Flatlands of the Mind explores "mnemotechnics," or the technology of remembering in a forgetful era.
Twenty Thousand Blinks meanwhile addresses the saturation of contemporary imagery, and reflects on the state of photography, moving images, and appropriation art.
Woman, Life, Freedom and Jina, the Moment of No Return breaks with the combinatorial logic of the Index to present in toto the first English translations of feminist writings from the 2022 Jina Uprising in Iran. These texts, originally published in a guest-edited issue of e-flux Journal in April 2024 (#145), offer raw and powerful reflections on the feminist revolution sparked by the tragic death of Jina Mahsa Amini.
Characters in a Landscape explores the metabolic rifts of the climate crisis, from the curious origins of autotune in Exxon oil extraction to speculative essays on post-fossil fuel architecture.
Structures that Want to Become Other Structures focuses on the role of primary and secondary notation. Diagrams, musical scores, performance scripts, sketches, jottings in the margin, and “notation in the expanded field,”
From the [■■■■■] to the [■■■] responds to the current climate of cultural censorship surrounding Palestine, highlights the struggles faced by artists and activists protesting ongoing global conflicts. From coded artistic practices to the navigation of authoritarian speech conditions, these contributions explore the intersections of art, politics, and resistance.
Planetary Acupuncture borrows a term from the Future Foodscapes Research Unit to delve into selective interventions that can initiate cascading changes across systems, new modalities of reparative work.
Pulverized Histories confronts the lasting impacts of colonialism, imperialism, and expansionist wars. It features reviews of biennales that foreground marginalized artists and practices, and critical essays on the architectural legacies of colonial violence.
One Size Does Not Fit All explores the dangers of homogenization, from global food monocultures and architectural uniformity, to the process of decolonization underway in contemporary art and the rhetorical maneuvers that can distort its aims.
A Jacket with Reversible Lining considers the potential for code-switching and the subversion of binaries in art and life. Contributions include portraits of artists navigating multiple identities and contexts, reflecting on the fluidity and complexity of contemporary existence.
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Published by e-flux, 540 pgs, 20 × 25 cm, Softcover, 2024,
