Archive Kabinett

No Order Magazine Launch

June 23rd 2011

Archive Books is pleased to announce the publication of the new art magazine: No Order. Art in a Post-Fordist Society. This editorial research and investigation project focuses on the relationships between contemporary art systems and capitalism's production processes.

By means of an investigation into current creative industries—and their social, economic and semiotic assemblages—the magazine contributions (essays, articles, interviews and dialogues as well as artists' projects) aim to deconstruct, analyse and intervene within the ambit of the procedures and forms of cognitive capitalism. It will concentrate, in particular, on the phenomena of the 'biennalisation', 'financialisation' and 'spectacularisation' of the political, beginning with the control and distribution of forms of artistic education, production and display on a global scale.

The Editorial Board is comprised of a series of transversal figures from various geographic and cultural environments, and includes Asef Bayat, Harun Farocki, Peter Friedl, Maurizio Lazzarato, Sylvère Lotringer, Achille Mbembe, Angela Melitopoulos, Christian Marazzi, Nelly Richard, Florian Schneider, Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas and Françoise Vergès.

Amongst the numerous contributors to the first, 400 page issue are: the curators Roger M. Buergel, Vasif Kortun, Charles Esche, Viktor Misiano; the sociologist Maurizio Lazzarato and the economist Christian Marazzi; the filmmakers Deimantas Narkevičius, Harun Farocki, Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi; the Russian philosopher Alexei Penzin; the Chilean theorist Nelly Richard and the German art historian Astrit Schmidt-Burkhardt. There are artists projects by Stephen Willats, Erick Beltrán, Warren Niedich, Société Réaliste, Falke Pisano, the Argentinian collective Etcetéra, Rossella Biscotti, Luca Frei, Oliver Ressler and Vangelis Vlahos, who contribute with essays, graphic designs or maps and cartographies.

The cover picture is taken from the demonstrations at the Milan Triennale in 1968. The underlying theme of the XIV International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts and Modern Architecture was 'Large Numbers'. The XIV Triennale never opened. It was occupied by students during the demonstrations and all the exhibition areas were destroyed. 'Why not try to start again, precisely here in Milan? In that same space in which the great process of social transformation was interrupted?'