Empire's Island, or, Who Is the Island?

  • 2024,
  • ENGLISH,
  • pdf 5 MB

Essay, published in e-flux

Dagboek in de brandende tijd

  • 2024,
  • DUTCH,
  • pdf 538 kB

Diary notes, published in NRC Handelsblad

Klimaatpropaganda's: ieder zijn eigen tsunami

  • 2024,
  • DUTCH,
  • pdf 196 kB

Essay, published in De Groene Amsterdammer

Exo-Ecologies: Notes on Intra-planetary and Inter-planetary Becomings

  • 2024,
  • ENGLISH,
  • pdf 4 MB

Essay, published in e-flux

Collectivize Time, Redistribute the Future

  • 2024,
  • ENGLISH,
  • pdf 4 MB

Essay, published in Mosaic

New World Summits

  • 2022,
  • ENGLISH,
  • pdf 2 MB

Essay, published in 'Designing Peace,' Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York

Zwischen den Welten

  • 2021,
  • GERMAN,
  • pdf 2 MB

Essay, published in KUNSTFORUM International

Collectivizations

  • 2021,
  • English,
  • pdf 12 MB

Essay, published in e-flux

Staging Them: Entartete Kunst from Past to Present

  • 2020,
  • English,
  • pdf 703 kB

Essay, published in 'The Aesthetics of Ambiguity: Understanding and Addressing Monoculture', Valiz-M_HKA

Contagion Propagations

  • 2020,
  • English,
  • pdf 6 MB

Essay, published in 'Deserting from the Culture Wars', BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht-The MIT Press

Climate Propagandas

  • 2020,
  • English,
  • pdf 9 MB

Essay, published in e-flux

The Red Virus

  • 2020,
  • English,
  • pdf 870 kB

Essay, published on Biennale Warszawa

Czerwony wirus

  • 2020,
  • Polish,
  • pdf 295 kB

Essay, published on Biennale Warszawa

Coronavirus Propagations

  • 2020,
  • English,
  • pdf 3 MB

Article, published on e-flux conversations

Trainen voor de toekomst

  • 2019,
  • Dutch,
  • pdf 119 kB

Essay, published in H ART

Comrades in Deep Future

  • 2019,
  • English,
  • pdf 6 MB

Essay, published in e-flux

Imagining Terror: Propaganda Art Today

  • 2018,
  • English,
  • pdf 7 MB

Essay, published in 'Para-Platforms: On the Spatial Politics of Right-Wing Populism' Sternberg Press

Propagandna (Umetnička) Borba

  • 2018,
  • Serbo-Croatian,
  • pdf 2 MB

Essay, published in Red Thread Journal

Propaganda (Sanatı) Mücadelesi

  • 2018,
  • Turkish,
  • pdf 2 MB

Essay, published in Red Thread Journal

Propaganda (Art) Struggle

  • 2018,
  • ENGLISH,
  • pdf 30 MB

Essay, published in e-flux

De kunst van hedendaagse propaganda

  • 2018,
  • Dutch,
  • pdf 197 kB

Essay, published in De Groene Amsterdammer

Monument to Capital: Notes on Secular Religiosity

  • 2017,
  • ENGLISH,
  • pdf 791 kB

Essay, published in PARSE Journal

Assemblism (German)

  • 2017,
  • German,
  • pdf 271 kB

Essay, published in e-flux

Assemblism

  • 2017,
  • English,
  • pdf 3 MB

Essay, published in e-flux

Transdemocracy

  • 2016,
  • English,
  • pdf 4 MB

Essay, published in e-flux

De frontlinie van de verbeelding

  • 2016,
  • Dutch,
  • pdf 2 MB

Article, published in Metropolis M

Nuove Linee per la Rivoluzione in Rojava

  • 2016,
  • Italian,
  • pdf 255 kB

Article, published in Sicilia Libertaria

IDEOLOGY = FORM

  • 2016,
  • English,
  • pdf 819 kB

Essay, published in e-flux

Law of the State, Truth of Art: Two Case Studies of Art as Evidence

  • 2016,
  • English,
  • pdf 652 kB

Essay, published in OnCurating

New Art for the New University

  • 2015,
  • English,
  • pdf 8 MB

Essay, published in Open! Cahier and Krisis, Journal for Contemporary Philosophy

Empire and Its Double: The Many Pavilions of the Islamic State

  • 2015,
  • English,
  • pdf 782 kB

Essay, published in e-flux

Theater van de staatlozen: onderwijs, cultuur en kunst in de revolutie van Rojava

  • 2015,
  • Dutch,
  • pdf 928 kB

Essay, published in nY

Democracy's Theater of Cruelty

  • 2015,
  • English,
  • pdf 2 MB

Essay, published in 'Future Publics (The Rest Can and Should be Done by the People)', published by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst en Valiz, book and cultural projects

Monument to Capital - Artist Jonas Staal on Tower Building and Stockmarket Crashes

  • 2015,
  • English,
  • pdf 234 kB

Essay, published in uncube

Een wereld maken

  • 2015,
  • Dutch,
  • pdf 5 MB

Essay, published in Metropolis M

El imperio y su doble: Los diversos pabellones del Estado Islámico

  • 2015,
  • Spanish,
  • pdf 641 kB

Essay, published in Re-visiones

To Make a World Part III: Stateless Democracy

  • 2015,
  • English,
  • pdf 1 MB

Essay, published in e-flux

To Make a World Part II: The Art of Creating a State

  • 2014,
  • English,
  • pdf 865 kB

Essay, published in e-flux

To Make A World Part I: Ultranationalism and the Art of the Stateless State

  • 2014,
  • English,
  • pdf 800 kB

Essay, published in e-flux

Art of the Stateless State

  • 2014,
  • Russian,
  • pdf 244 kB

Essay, published in Moscow Art Magazine

Art of the Stateless State

  • 2014,
  • English,
  • pdf 1 MB

Essay, published in Art Papers and Mould Magazine

Art. Democratism. Propaganda.

  • 2014,
  • English,
  • pdf 912 kB

Essay, published in e-flux

Progressive Art

  • 2014,
  • English,
  • pdf 228 kB

Essay, published in 'Truth is Concrete', Sternberg Press

Art After Democratism: The Pedagogy of the New World Summit

  • 2013,
  • English,
  • pdf 9 MB

Essay, published in Pedagogies of Disaster, Punctum Books

Arti pas demokratizimit: Pedagogjia e samitit të ri botëror

  • 2013,
  • Albanian,
  • pdf 11 MB

Essay, published in Pedagogies of Disaster, Punctum Books

Closed Architecture

  • 2013,
  • English,
  • pdf 247 kB

Essay, published in Paper Architectural Histamine

Architecture fermée

  • 2013,
  • French,
  • pdf 595 kB

Essay, published in Tracés

Art, Democratism, and Fundamental Democracy: an exploration of the New World Summit

  • 2013,
  • English,
  • pdf 152 kB

Article, published in Frakcija

Umnetjost, demokratizam i temeljna demokracija: Istrazivanje o New World Summitu

  • 2013,
  • Croatian,
  • pdf 247 kB

Article, published in Frakcija

Kunst ter verdediging van de democratie

  • 2012,
  • Dutch,
  • pdf 18 MB

Manifesto, published in NRC Handelsblad

Art in Defense of Democracy

  • 2012,
  • English,
  • pdf 3 MB

Pamphlet, published in NRC Handelsblad and NWS Handbook

De samenleving als gevangenis

  • 2011,
  • Dutch,
  • pdf 6 MB

Article, published in De Groene Amsterdammer

Against Irony / Tegen Ironie

  • 2008,
  • English/Dutch,
  • pdf 2 MB

Pamphlet with Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, published in "Around," Onomatopee

Plea II: Rather a Threat than a Marginalized Pawn

  • 2008,
  • English,
  • pdf 2 MB

Plea, published in NRC Handelsblad

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