e-flux journal redux: Liam Gillick, 'Maybe it would be better if we worked in...
@karenarchey wrote: →This text was originally published in 2009 in issue 3 of our sister publication e-flux journal, and continued from issue #2: Maybe it would be better if we worked in groups of...
View Article40 years of Przyczółek Grochowski, Oskar Hansen's failed Warsaw housing project
@karenarchey wrote: Architect and pedagogue Oskar Hansen influenced an entire generation of Polish artists and architects and is remembered for his theory of Open Form--a utopic architectural form...
View ArticleThe enduring radical legacy of Rosa Luxemburg
@e_flux wrote: Jacobin magazine has an interview with Paul Buhle, editor of Red Rosa, a new graphic biography on Rosa Luxemburg, about the continuing relevance of the pioneering thinker and agitator....
View ArticleIs capitalism an ecological system?
@e_flux wrote: The New Inquiry has a review of philosopher Jason W. Moore’s Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital, a book that seek to overcome the impasses of...
View ArticleFor photo op, Ai Weiwei poses as dead refugee toddler from iconic image
@karenarchey wrote: As we reported last week, Ai Weiwei has been stationed on the Greek island of Lesbos photographing the waves of refugees arriving from Syria and posting his reportage on Instagram....
View ArticleDoes the NY Times deliberately make war beautiful?
@e_flux wrote: David Shields’s new book War Is Beautiful is a peculiar coffee-table book. It collects front-page war photos from the New York Times and deconstructs them to argue that the newspaper...
View ArticleLive coverage: Dhaka Art Summit Critical Writing Ensemble
@karenarchey wrote: e-flux conversations is pleased to present live coverage of the Dhaka Art Summit's Critical Writing Ensemble (CWE), a four-day conference on art writing occurring the 3rd, 4th,...
View ArticleThe dawn of the analog-digital hybrid tech gadget
@karenarchey wrote: While Kodak's name has become synonymous with analog film--and all its nostalgia and industrial failings--the company has introduced a product last month that feels decidedly new:...
View ArticleDigital life and the fraud of "busyness"
@e_flux wrote: Public Books has an interview with Judy Wajcman, a sociologist at the London School of Economics and author of the new book Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital...
View ArticleIs technology really making us sad, isolated, and incommunicative?
@e_flux wrote: As a kind of counterpoint to our earlier post today on digital life and "busyness", The New Inquiry has a piece by Nathan Jurgenson arguing that when we debate the merits of technology,...
View ArticleEkaterina Degot on the Cologne attacks and German xenophobia
@karenarchey wrote: *This text was originally published on academycologne.org. It is republished here with permission from the author. After the events on New Year’s Eve, Cologne’s big names and VIPs...
View ArticleBrian Droitcour on Moscow's public art and institutions in the '90s
@karenarchey wrote: The 1990s was a strange time for art and institutions in post-communist countries. Newfound social liberties prompted radical street theater while institutions struggled to take...
View ArticleThe explicitly sexual female artists that feminism forgot
@e_flux wrote: In The Guardian, Sarah Galo writes about an exhibition entitled "Black Sheep Feminism: the Art of Sexual Politics" currently on view at the Dallas Contemporary museum in Texas. The...
View ArticleThe impossibility of existing as a writer in Los Angeles
@e_flux wrote: The just-released February issue of the Brooklyn Rail includes a symposium on art writing in Los Angeles, with contributions from Bruce Hainley, A. L. Steiner, Roberto Tejada, and...
View Articlee-flux journal redux: Luis Camnitzer, 'Art and Literacy'
@karenarchey wrote: *This text was originally published in 2009 in issue 3 of our sister publication e-flux journal You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test....
View ArticleAn open letter to Ta-Nehisi Coates and the liberals who love him
@e_flux wrote: When asked recently if he supported slavery-related reparations for African Americans, US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders replied, "Its likelihood of getting through Congress is...
View ArticleHito Steyerl on museums in an age of planetary civil war
@e_flux wrote: The February 2016 issue of e-flux journal has just been published. It features a piece by Hito Steyerl about the role of museums in an age of increasing civil, sectarian, and informal...
View ArticleHow did Joan Didion become the stuff of legend?
@karenarchey wrote: Vanity Fair contributing editor Lili Anolik writes about Joan Didion, legend of literary legends, about how she got to be so rightfully legendary. An excerpt below, the full piece...
View ArticleNotes from Benjamin Bratton's 'Dispute Plan to Prevent Future Luxury...
@karenarchey wrote: IMG_5560.JPG4214x1468 1.36 MB Please join Benjamin H. Bratton and e-flux journal editor Julieta Aranda at transmediale on Friday, February 5 for the Berlin launch of Bratton's new...
View ArticleA farewell to totality: On Benjamin H. D. Buchloh
@e_flux wrote: In the February issue of e-flux journal, Gleb Napreenko reviews Benjamin H. D. Buchloh's Formalism and Historicity, suggesting that Buchloh's vision of an omnipresent and omnipotent...
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