e-flux

e-flux was started by artists in 1999. Online, e-flux.com spans numerous strains of critical discourse in art, architecture, film, and theory, and connects many of the most significant art institutions with audiences around the world. e-flux journal, launched in 2008, commissions and publishes some of the most influential writings on art, film, history, technology, and politics in its monthly online publication and series of books, published together with Sternberg Press and the University of Minnesota Press. Many essays first published in e-flux journal have become canonical readings in the art theory of our time. e-flux launched the publications e-flux Architecture in 2016, Notes in 2022, and Criticism in 2023. e-flux Film began streaming artist films online in 2019.

Franco Bifo Berardi, Chaos and the Automaton, e-flux, 2025 © Franco Bifo Berardi

This selection of key essays collected here presents Berardi’s prescient interventions into a decade-plus of social turmoil, offering a tour through the cataclysms that have rocked the foundations of the global order in the years since the 2008 financial crisis, from European austerity, Occupy, The Arab Spring, and Anonymous through the ascendance of Pope Francis, Brexit, Covid-19, the Trump-Biden sequence, the US Capitol riots, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine—and some of the bizarre new cultural appearances they have ushered in.

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