This issue features articles by Anthony Davies, Paul Helliwell, Howard Slater, and Peter Suchin, and a special section on climate change and capital with texts by Will Barnes, James Woudhuysen, Tim Forsyth and Zoe Young, Kate Rich, George Caffentzis, Anthony Iles, Chris Wright, and Samantha Alvarez.
Calling it 'a virtual cinemath'que on video', the Telluride Film Festival gave its coveted Silver Medallion award to Facets Video Encyclopedia. The Encyclopedia lists more than 35,000 rare films on video, laser disc and DVD. Included are foreign, independent, classic American, silent, documentary, experimental, cult and children's films. Each is carefully described and lists director, country of origin, year and running time credits and is categorized and cross-referenced by director and country. All films are available for sale or rent from Facets Multimedia.
Manifesto for a Theory of the 'New Aesthetic' - An irreverent guided tour of the 'New Aesthetic' by Curt Cloninger, The Missing Factory - John Roberts considers why work remains absent from film and culture more generally, Barbara Says - Industry Does it Faster - Roman Vasseur reviews the Artist Placement Group's historic brokerage of bureaucracy and art, The Ghosts of Participation Past - Josephine Berry Slater reviews Claire Bishop's recent book, Artificial Hells, Listener As Operator 3 - Howard Slater finds in jazz a response to the experience of slavery which preserves and propels a collective being, Untitled #M001 - #M011 2,325,600 combinations of 16 grays an artist's project by John Houck, Gaming the Plumbing - Alberto Toscano inspects the gap between financial fantasies and the muddy realities of the 'robot phase transition', Destructive Destruction? - How is high frequency trading's drive to efficiency affecting market dynamics as a whole?Ask Inigo Wilkinson and Bogan Dragos, Fellowship of the Wrong - A code-splitting tale of lightspeed trading run by Benedict Seymour, with illustrations by Rona Tunnadine, The Guest - A short story by Mira Mattar exploring the annihilating power of luxury, The Garden of Earthly Delights - Matthew Fuller wades through the Olympic muck to visit The Crystal World, At the Limit: Self-Organisation in Greece - Anna O'Lory of Blaumachen identifies some limits to current struggles in Greece, Whose Rebel City? - Neil Gray discusses David Harvey's Rebel Cities from the perspective of the autonomous urban struggles of '70s Italy