Superhumanity

The 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial inaugurates a special collaboration with e-flux. Superhumanity is the first project by e-flux Architecture which is a new platform for publishing and disseminating new ideas in architecture and design.

Superhumanity presents more than 50 essays on the design of the self and aims to probe the radical implications of the idea that we are and always have been continuously reshaped by the artefacts we shape.

Boris Groys
Self-Design, or Productive Narcissism
Lesley Lokko
In The Skin Of A Lion, A Leopard… A Man
MAP Office
An Apology to Survivors
Trevor Paglen
Some Sketches on Vertical Geographies
Raqs Media Collective
As If by Design
Mabel O. Wilson
Carceral Architectures
Brooke Holmes
Prescribing Reflexivity
Eyal Weizman
Are They Human?
Sylvia Lavin
History for an Empty Future
Lydia Kallipoliti
Masters and Slaves
Tom Holert
Spaces of the Learning Self
Andrew Herscher
Cardboard for Humanity
Keller Easterling
No, You’re Not
Zeynep Çelik Alexander
Mass Gestaltung
Ina Blom
On Snow Dancing
Ruha Benjamin
Designer and Discarded Genomes
Shumon Basar
Couple Format: The Identity Between Love and Work
Daniel Birnbaum & Sven-Olov Wallenstein
Spatial Thought
Giuliana Bruno
Storage Space
Tony Chakar
Down with the World
Hu Fang
Our Heads are Round, Our Hands Irregular
Rubén Gallo
Designer Sex
Ingo Niermann
Real Estate Porn or How to Liberate Us from Being Slaves of Our Own Houses
Jack Self
Beyond the Self
Rupali Gupte & Prasad Shetty
The One-Foot Shop
Mark Cousins
We Are Red Parakeets
Andrés Jaque
Surrogacity: Just Like James Franco
Ahmet Öğüt
After the Third End
Paulo Tavares
In The Forest Ruins
Francesca Hughes
Facilities for Correction
Lucia Allais
Amplified Humanity and The Architectural Criminal
Chus Martínez
The Duck is the Übermensch
Alexander Tarakhovsky
Beyond the Gene
Spyros Papapetros
The Birth of Design
Felicity D. Scott
Lesser Worlds
Franco Bifo Berrardi
Engineering Self
Benjamin H. Bratton
On Anthropolysis
Liam Gillick
Workplace Aesthetics Might Not Be Enough
Thomas Keenan
Or are we human beings?
Chuz Martinez
The Duck is the Übermensch
Sophia Roosth
Analysis: Synthesis
Kali Stull and Etienne Turpin
Our Vectors, Ourselves
Pelin Tan
The Matter of Scale
Stephan Truby
Right-wing Spaces
Anton Vidokle and Arseny Zhilyaev
Art without Death
Brian Kuan Wood
The Story of Peter Green Peter Chang