{"product_id":"supercommunity-e-flux-9781786633590","title":"Supercommunity: Diabolical Togetherness Beyond Contemporary Art","description":"\u003cb\u003eLeading artists, theorists, and writers exhume the dystopian and utopian futures contained within the present\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"I am the supercommunity, and you are only starting to recognize me. I grew out of something that used to be humanity. Some have compared me to angry crowds in public squares; others compare me to wind and atmosphere, or to software.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInvited to exhibit at the 56th Venice Biennale, \u003ci\u003ee-flux journal\u003c\/i\u003e produced a single issue over a four-month span, publishing an article a day both online and on site from Venice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn essays, poems, short stories, and plays, artists and theorists trace the negative collective that is the subject of contemporary life, in which art, the internet, and globalization have shed their utopian guises but persist as naked power, in the face of apocalyptic ecological disaster and against the claims of the social commons. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"I convert care to cruelty, and cruelty back to care. I convert political desires to economic flows and data, and then I convert them back again. I convert revolutions to revelations. I don't want security, I want to leave, and then disperse myself everywhere and all the time.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e E-Flux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1786633590\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781786633590\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/05\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.40d","brand":"E-Flux","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43938076623103,"sku":"9781786633590","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_ab739fef-4f93-4546-9ec6-86ae16020d60.jpg?v=1681433591","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/supercommunity-e-flux-9781786633590","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}