Leading artists theorists and writers exhume the dystopian and utopian futures contained
within the present 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. Invited to exhibit at the
56th Venice Biennale e-flux journal produced a single issue over a four-month span publishing
an article a day both online and on site from Venice. In 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. 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.
