dis.art

  • Main
  • Series
  • Collections
  • Browse All

Nations


The worldwide rise of nationalism is the last breath of the nation-state—a concept so undone by travel, by global supply chains, by drones flown from home, by refugees of climate disaster and war, that it almost seems absurd.

The future of belonging is, in reality, displacement. Of course, statelessness is not just a utopian vision of a sovereign- free future; it’s the forced condition that’s a hallmark of powerful autocrats who decry “globalism,” closing and militarizing their own borders while simultaneously profiteering on corporation-sponsored perpetual war abroad. In the midst of all this disaster, the nation’s porous and uneasy existence just might be on its last legs.


  • Info
    LOCKED

    CALL TO ARMS

    PentHouss

    Mirrors ring a claustrophobic space. Lights flash. Enter the riot police. Obscured behind darkened face shields, they menace. And then they begin dancing.

  • Info

    After Scarcity

    Bahar Noorizadeh

    After Scarcity explores cybernetics in the USSR when computation ≠ total financialization.

  • Info

    Eyes of the Nation

    Nicholas Korody

    Eyes of the Nation explores the work of vision, power, and obscurity in the project of Israeli state-making through its media images.

  • Info
    LOCKED

    The Drone is the Message

    Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman

    It’s not the laptop nor phone that best typifies our relationship to the internet. It’s the drone.

  • Info
    LOCKED

    Ep 01 —

    Metadata

    Christopher Meerdo

    Artist Christopher Meerdo’s searing film weaves an emotive vignette on the state of contemporary politics and socialities.

     

  • Info
    LOCKED

    Ep 03 —

    Donald Anthonyson and Families for Freedom

    Hannah Black

    Donald Anthonyson, Director of Families for Freedom, comes on to talk about immigration.

  • Info
    LOCKED

    Ep 01 —

    Controlled Opposition

    Matt Goerzen & Ed Fornieles

    Investigating the tricks trolls play.

  • Info
    LOCKED

    The Seasteaders

    By Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman and Daniel Keller

    How do you build a libertarian future? The Seasteading Institute thinks it knows.

  • Info
    LOCKED

    Ep 01 —

    Chantal Mouffe

    DIS

    Wark summons Chantal Mouffe, explaining how the “liberal” and the “democratic” are pulling apart.

  • Info
    LOCKED

    60 Million Americans Can't Be Wrong

    Christopher Kulendran Thomas and Annika Kuhlmann

    Could citizenship be erased through cloud technology?

  • Info

    Ep 03 —

    Benign Violence

    Derek Larson

    Jon has coffee with a revolving cast of thinkers.

  • Info
    LOCKED

    Ep 01 —

    Reparation Hardware

    Ilana Harris-Babou

    Furniture restoration tutorial and a proposal for the delivery of reparations to African-Americans.

  • Info
    LOCKED

    Real Mass Entrepreneurship

    Simon Denny

    The entrepreneur is cast as a high-tech hero but may be latest victim of precarious labor.

  • Info
    LOCKED

    Ep 03 —

    Red Sourcebook

    Ilana Harris-Babou

    Tracing the racist legacy of land ownership.

  • Info
    LOCKED

    Narrative Devices

    Dis & Babak Radboy

    Imagine the end of the contemporary.

  • Info
    LOCKED

    The Drone is the Message

    Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman

    It’s not the laptop nor phone that best typifies our relationship to the internet. It’s the drone.

  • Info

    Neighborhood Goggles

    Meriem Bennani

    The homes of Rabat, Morocco come to life to tell their tales.

  • Info
    LOCKED

    Ep 01 —

    Marge's Intro

    Olivia Erlanger and Luis Ortega Govela

    How a food distributor named Joseph Eichler remade America.

  • Info
    LOCKED

    Ep 02 —

    Seduced by Suburbia

    Olivia Erlanger and Luis Ortega Govela

    Without the car, there’d be no suburbs.

  • Info
    LOCKED

    Ep 03 —

    Garage Conspiracy

    Olivia Erlanger and Luis Ortega Govela

    The garage is the domain of reality disconnect, re-invention, and self-fulfilling prophecies.

  • Sign Up