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Turkish Contemporary Art 2.0
@e_flux wrote: At the LA Review of Books, Kaya Genç interviews artist Halil Altındere and writer Süreyyya Evren—both Turkish—about their massive new book User’s Manual 2.0: Contemporary Art in Turkey...
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Disrupting silences in the philosophy canon
@e_flux wrote: At Public Seminar, philosophy professor PJ Gorre reflects on the inadequacy of canonical historical designations such as "ancient philosophy" and "modern philosophy," not least because...
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On bureaucracy and the Left
@e_flux wrote: At the LA Review of Books, Guy Patrick Cunningham reviews David Graeber's recent book The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy. Contrary to...
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Jonas Staal on non-state politics, art, and the Kurdish struggle
@e_flux wrote: In the January issue of e-flux journal, Jonas Staal visits the Kurdish autonomous region of Rojava, in northern Syria, to investigate how form—political, artistic, architectural—shapes...
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Being Lacan's daughter
@e_flux wrote: The website of Asymptote Journal has a translated excerpt from the book Un père, puzzle (A father, puzzle) by Sybille Lacan, the second daughter of Jacques Lacan and Marie-Louise...
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Chloe Wyma on Dave Hickey's '25 Women: Essays on Their Art'
@karenarchey wrote: Brooklyn Rail Editor Chloe Wyma writes a rather satisfying (but fair!) review of Dave Hickey's "25 Women: Essays on Their Art" for the New York Times Sunday Book Review. She...
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Curator Christine Tohmé Denied Passport by Lebanese Authorities
@e_flux wrote: Curator Christine Tohme, founder and director of the Lebanese Association for the Plastic Arts, Ashkal Alwan, has been denied a passport renewal by Lebanon’s Directorate of General...
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Are all-female exhibitions problematic?
@karenarchey wrote: While some of us see all-female exhibitions as the antidote to a long history of all-white-male exhibitions, others heartily disagree, arguing that both all-male and all-female...
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The lawsuits against and global reach of aaaaarg.org
@karenarchey wrote: As founder of aaaarg.org Sean Dockray is being sued in Quebec court by an unnamed publisher, many of the sites' users have attested to the pivotal role aaaaarg.org has played in...
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Raymond Pettibon on JMW Turner
@karenarchey wrote: Art and rock and roll legend and noted Twitter commentator Raymond Pettibon was interviewed by the Met about JMW Turner. Pettibon speaks about his admiration for Turner, the...
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Fate of Dorthea Rockburne's Sony HQ murals uncertain
@karenarchey wrote: Two 30-by-30-feet murals painted by Dorthea Rockburne in 1993 have been sold along with the building they occupy, reports The Post. According to Rockburne, the paintings, which...
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Dan Graham: 'Conceptual art is bullshit'
@karenarchey wrote: I just came across this video of Dan Graham lambasting conceptual art via Out of Sync: Art in Focus. He criticizes conceptual art's lack of accessibility, and lets Seth Siegelaub...
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e-flux journal redux: Monika Szewczyk, 'Art of Conversation, Part I'
@e_flux wrote: *This text was originally published in 2009 in issue 2 of e-flux journal Much has been said of late about “the conversational” or “the discursive” in and around the field of...
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Endorsing political candidates in the art world
@e_flux wrote: Is it ever a good idea? On the New Centre's blog Triple Ampersand, Jonathan Thomas reacts to Jerry Saltz's open letter endorsing Hillary Clinton. Saltz's unedited, fast-and-loose...
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Girlfriend, mother, professor?
@karenarchey wrote: We've heard a lot lately about the tribulations of underpaid adjuncts in academia, but what of students' mommy problems? Carol Hay, Associate professor of philosophy and the...
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The prohibitive costs of publishing an open-access paper
@karenarchey wrote: Apparently the fat cats of academia have found another way to skim resources from strapped professors: the double dipping "hybrid journal." Jane C. Hu of The Atlantic reports that...
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Protesting new refugee laws, Ai Wei Wei withdraws from Danish show
@karenarchey wrote: Screen shot 2016-01-28 at 13.56.09.png480x600 354 KB Since Ai Wei Wei's passport was returned by the Chinese government, the artist has launched back into international endeavors,...
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British filmmaker tricks censors into watching 10-hour movie of paint drying
@karenarchey wrote: Tricksy British filmmaker Charlie Lyne made a 10-hour movie of paint drying and submitted it to the British Board of Film Classification, who must watch the film in entirety to...
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The philosophy of cosmic horror fiction: H. P. Lovecraft and Thomas Ligotti
@e_flux wrote: H. P. Lovecraft, the American horror writer known for his terrifically spooky and intellectually rigorous stories, has received lots of attention from philosophers of late, especially...
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McKenzie Wark on little-known Belgian Surrealist Marcel Mariën
@e_flux wrote: At Public Seminar, McKenzie Wark writes about Marcel Mariën (1920–1993), a Belgian writer and practitioner of "low theory" who was associated with the Surrealists and the Situationists,...
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