Here is a thoughtful article from the first edition (coolly branded as #0) of e-flux’s online/print-on-demand journal. There’s a vague suggestion on e-flux’s website that printing it out — yourself — is to be done in the same mode as the items in Hans Ulrich Obrist’s “do it” project, which seems a bit of a stretch to me.
The three-part article is a fairly deep inquiry into the complex relationships between contemporary art and commerce, and the current impossibility of a real critical avant-garde existant within the global art system. I would only add that I noticed recent articles in both Frieze and ARTFORUM that, along with this one in e-flux, would seem to evince a trend that inexplicitly favors Baudrillard’s fifteen year-old contention that the only interesting, social, relevant creative output being made comes, can only come, in the form of “non-art”.
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