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New York City Will Never Be the Same Again—And It Shouldn’t Be
@e_flux wrote: 1090px-New_York_City_at_night_HDR1090×720 197 KB At the Verso blog, Ashley Dawson and Aurash Khawarzad write about how Covid-19 has exacerbated New York City’s deep inequalities, even...
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2020's Existentialist Turn
@e_flux wrote: 959px-Camus_Grab_bei_Lourmarin_in_Südfrankreich959×720 312 KB The Boston Review, political theorist Carmen Lea Dege explores why existentialism has experienced a revival during the...
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The Asset Economy: Property Ownership and the New Logic of Inequality
@e_flux wrote: 960px-Housing_under_construction,_Fielders_Crescent,_Barking_Riverside960×720 226 KB The Los Angeles Review of Books has an excerpt from an intriguing new book: The Asset Economy:...
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The First Great Quarantine Novel
@e_flux wrote: As Brooks Sterritt writes in The Nation, the first great novel to capture the feeling of pandemic-induced isolation has arrived, and it’s not even about Covid-19. Blake Butler’s Alice...
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A Psychoanalytic Reading of Social Media
@e_flux wrote: Twittering-Machine-Paul-Klee876×722 189 KB In the new fall issue of Bookforum, Max Read reviews The Twittering Machine by theorist Richard Seymour, which approaches our seemingly...
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For the Slow Work of Critique in Critical Times
@e_flux wrote: 960px-1901P1040598sillonsalaobraslit_m960×720 191 KB At Public Books, anthropologist Webb Keane reviews a new edited collection about the value of critique in politically volatile...
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Mike Davis on the California Fires
@e_flux wrote: Cima Dome2000×1250 1.07 MB In The Nation, prominent political theorist Mike Davis, a California native, discusses the political and environmental backdrop to the wildfires that have...
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The Political Economy of Saving the Planet
@e_flux wrote: 1620px-GreenNewDeal_Presser_020719_(20_of_85)1620×1080 212 KB The Boston Review talks to Noam Chomsky and green economist Robert Pollin about the links between Covid-19 and the climate...
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Mark Fisher's Final Lectures
@e_flux wrote: Fisher1200×939 152 KB In the music magazine The Quietus, Enrico Monacelli takes an early look at a forthcoming collection of Mark Fisher’s final lectures, entitled Postcapitalist...
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How to Live Through the Apocalypse
@e_flux wrote: 1080px-Korsika_maginot021080×720 293 KB In the Los Angeles Review of Books, Barbara Kiser reviews two recent books on preparing – mentally, logistically, and intellectually – for living...
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The Lunatic Films of Yasuzo Masumura
@e_flux wrote: 951px-Oyafuko_Dōri.1958951×720 113 KB In the fall issue of Bookforum, novelist and artist James Hannaham writes about binge-watching the “lunatic films” of Japanese director Yasuzo...
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Rebecca Solnit on Political Hope
@e_flux wrote: 1196px-Women_practice_voting_in_Dayton_Oct._27,_19201196×720 234 KB At Lit Hub, Rebecca Solnit reflects on the difference between hope and optimism amidst a chaotic and consequential...
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Readings for a Tense and Momentous Week
@e_flux wrote: IMG_1859WEB22000×1333 465 KB Gentle greetings, world. It is November 5, in the year 2020. We felt like sharing some words, sounds, and visions with you during this tense and momentous...
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Why Automation Theorists Are Wrong
@e_flux wrote: 1080px-Car_Assembly_Line_in_Philippines1080×720 206 KB In the Fall 2020 issue of Dissent, political theorist Aaron Benanav argues that the threat to employed posed by automation is...
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Learning from Plague Novels by Camus and Atwood
@e_flux wrote: 960px-20041113-002_Lourmarin_Tombstone_Albert_Camus960×720 351 KB At the website of the theory journal boundary 2, literary scholar Bruce Robbins reflects on two novels that have...
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#MeToo Revelations Rock the Dutch Art World
@e_flux wrote: Over the past month The Netherlands has been rocked by a #MeToo scandal that has received little international press, even though it’s been headline news at home. The relatively...
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Prominent Google Ethics Researcher Fired After Criticizing the Tech Giant
@e_flux wrote: Google_1300_Charleston_building1000×597 279 KB In Wired magazine, Tom Simonite reports on the recent firing of a prominent ethics researcher in Google’s AI division. Timnit Gebru was...
View ArticleOpen Letter: "Nothing Can Be Changed Until It Is Faced"
@e_flux wrote: Reposted from nothingchangeduntilfaced.com: As artists, academics, writers and cultural workers who live in Germany and/or work with German cultural institutions, we welcome the joint...
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Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism
@e_flux wrote: 1091px-Schwetzingen_-Schlossgarten-_Chinesische_Brücke_von_NO_11091×720 407 KB In the winter issue of Bookforum, labor journalist Sarah Jaffe reviews Post-Growth Living: For an...
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A Novel of "Capitalist Naturalism"
@e_flux wrote: In the Los Angeles Review of Books, Julie A. Ward reviews the novel Hurricane Season by Mexican writer Fernanda Melchor, recently published in English translation. Ward describes the...
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Bifo: "What Abyss Are We Talking About?"
@e_flux wrote: abyss2048×1365 592 KB by Franco “Bifo” Berardi The essay published by Timothy Snyder in the New York Times Magazine on January 9 has a beautiful title, even if it is not very original.1...
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Open Letter to the Museum of Chinese in America from Godzilla Collective
@e_flux wrote: Screen Shot 2021-03-12 at 2.58.45 PM1174×1530 636 KB This letter comes from nineteen of the members of the artist collective Godzilla, who officially withdrew from the exhibition...
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Arundhati Roy: Modi's Covid Response Is a "Crime Against Humanity
@e_flux wrote: 51411400×952 122 KB In The Guardian, Arundhati Roy has published a longread about the catastrophic Covid situation in India and the incompetent, heartless response from prime minister...
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Pioneering Polish Art Magazine Taken Over by Goose-Stepping Conservatives
@e_flux wrote: Cover_TV UNU_Râmnicu Vâlcea_Nicoleta Moise1020×693 554 KB by Krzysztof Gutfranski The Polish magazine Obieg (Circuit) was launched in 1987, beginning as a bulletin; its name was a...
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Open Letter from Arts for Afghanistan
@e_flux wrote: picture-1541199×799 657 KB We are writing to urge the United States government to do everything in its power to facilitate the departure from Afghanistan of at-risk Afghans, and to...
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