Table 7 Examples of performances of capital and subtractions on e-flux’s About pages.

From: How online discourse networks fields of practice: The discursive negotiation of autonomy on art organisation about pages

2023 corpus

  

Type

 

Artistic capital

 

49

e-flux […] connects many of the most significant art institutions with audiences around the world.

Institutionalised

50

e-flux’s announcements deliver the latest press releases of key art exhibitions […].

Institutionalised

51

e-flux produces and presents original art projects, symposia, and exhibitions that have appeared at Documenta, the Venice Biennale, and art institutions around the world.

Institutionalised

52

[…] e-flux was started by artists […].

Embodied

 

Academic capital

 

53

e-flux journal […] commissions and publishes some of the most influential writings on art, film, history, technology, and politics.

Objectified

54

Many essays first published in e-flux journal have become canonical readings in the art theory of our time.

Objectified

2016 corpus

  

Type

 

Artistic capital

 

55

[…] e-flux offers similar platforms […] to art schools and art academies through art & education, which e-flux jointly administers together with Artforum International.

Objectified

 

Academic capital

 

56

[…] the art projects produced and/or disseminated by e-flux describe strains of critical discourse surrounding contemporary art, culture, and theory internationally.

Objectified

57

e-flux journal has produced essays […] about cultural, political, and structural paradigms that inform contemporary artistic production.

Objectified

58

e-flux has maintained a dynamic international program of exhibitions and events including: United Nations Plaza, Utopia Station, Martha Rosler Library and AUP.

Objectified

 

Subtraction

 

59

One month later, Vidokle started e-flux whose mailing list is made free for it’s [sic] 90,000+ readers by a set fee paid by museums and other institutions of art to publish their press releases and other communiqués via e-flux.