From the Editors
Christopher Green and Dana Liljegren, Co-editors

ARTICLES

Human scale and the technological sublime. An iconology of the ‘crisis of civilization’ in the 1930s
Max Bonhomme

Juan Downey’s “Anaconda” Map of Chile, 1975
Julia Bozer

Un/Earthing Borderland-Motherland: Stateless Bodies Intimating the Waves, the Woods, and the Walls
Trangđài Glassey-Trầnguyễn

Land Grant: Complicating Institutional Legacies
Alyssa Bralower and Allison Rowe

SPECIAL FEATURE

Give us our Knives
Anne Spice

ARTIST PROJECT

Morph Target Displacement Mapping: Removals / Pre-Creative Acts
Jackson Polys, Zack Khalil, and Adam Khalil

DISPATCH

The resurgence of Blood and Soil: symbols and artefacts of Völkische Siedlungen and Neo-Nazi Villages in Germany
Teresa Retzer

REVIEWS

Review: De Wereld van Pyke Koch
Stephanie Lebas Huber

A Monumental Undertaking
Crystal Migwans

On Representation, Appropriation, and Everything in Between
Horacio Ramos

 

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Cover artwork: Jackson Polys, Zack Khalil, and Adam Khalil, Morph Target Displacement Mapping: Removals / Pre-Creative Acts (details), 2019. © Jackson Polys, Zack Khalil, and Adam Khalil.

 

ABOUT SHIFT

Host Institution
The Graduate Center, CUNY

Editorial Committee
Onur Ayaz, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Monica Bulger, Columbia University
Ben Clifford, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Janine DeFeo, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Matilde Guidelli-Guidi, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Yizhuo Li, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Siwin Lo, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Alice Martin, New York University
Rachel Valinsky, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Ian Wallace, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Chloe Wyma, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Editorial Board
Adrian Anagnost, Tulane University
Brigid Doherty, Princeton University
Romy Golan, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Katherine Manthorne, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Nora Annesley Taylor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Norman Vorano, Queen’s University

Faculty Advisor
Rachel Kousser, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Co-Editors
Christopher Green, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Dana Liljegren, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Copy Editor
Ian Wallace, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Cover Artwork
Jackson Polys, Zack Khalil, and Adam Khalil

Shift Logo
Alex Dodge