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A laborless eden?
@e_flux wrote: At Public Books, Gustav Peebles, a professor of anthropology at the New School, reviews the book Give a Man a Fish: Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution by James Ferguson. In...
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Could resource-rich galleries eclipse museums?
@karenarchey wrote: Screen shot 2016-02-08 at 14.52.31.png898x505 572 KB Blue chip galleries have recently shown that commercial spaces are capable of producing museum-quality exhibitions--perhaps...
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McKenzie Wark on building a new infrastructure within the ruins of the old
@e_flux wrote: In the February issue of e-flux journal, McKenzie Wark continues his reflections on the "vectoralist class" that he began in the framework of e-flux's Supercommunity project. This time...
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Toward a new global recession?
@e_flux wrote: In the Brooklyn Rail, Jose A. Tapia, a professor of politics at Drexel University in Philadelphia, provides a somewhat wonky but nonetheless lucid assessment of the present state of the...
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RetroDada Manifesto: "There is a lot of negative work to be done"
@e_flux wrote: Next month will mark the centenary of Dada, which by most accounts began in a seedy cabaret in Zürich in 1916. To mark the occasion, the anonymously written "RetroDada Manifesto" has...
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"Syriza has sold its soul for power"
@e_flux wrote: In The Guardian, economist and former Syriza MP Costas Lapavitsas laments the current state of his erstwhile party, which he says has transformed from radical opponents of austerity to...
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How do you make a living, mid-career artist?
@e_flux wrote: The website of the magazine Pacific Standard has an interview with New York–based artist Hank Willis Thomas about money, MFAs, and whether it's worth the trouble of living in NY. Check...
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Eileen Myles on waiting for love
@karenarchey wrote: In honor of Valentine's Day, The Cut is publishing stories about "love as it's actually lived." Poet Eileen Myles, who seems adorably allergic to commas, writes about a long-ago...
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Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels to be adapted for TV
@karenarchey wrote: The Hollywood Reporter brings us the strange-but-wonderful news that The Neapolitan Novels will be adapted for TV by an Italian production company. For those Ferrante acolytes out...
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The de-internationalization of the Chinese art world
@e_flux wrote: In the February issue of e-flux journal, Carol Yinghua Lu discusses the trajectory of the Chinese art world in the past few decades: from an eagerness to imitate Western models and...
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"The unconscious is the last activist"
@e_flux wrote: The LA Review of Books has an interview with Patricia Gherovici, a writer and Lacanian psychoanalyst based in Philadelphia who writes about the unconscious and transgender identity. In...
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Levi Paul-Bryant on the term 'object-oriented ontology' and imprisoned language
@karenarchey wrote: For his blog Larval Subjects, Levi Paul-Bryant writes about our propensity to imprison language in citation of philosophers or over-determined systems of thought. "We think we’re...
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Chris Kraus interviewed by Anna Poletti
@karenarchey wrote: For the journal Contemporary Women's Writing, Anna Poletti interviews author and filmmaker Chris Kraus. There's something incredibly rich about this interview. Poletti is a...
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The fall of idealistic architecture from the 1960s and '70s
@e_flux wrote: In The Guardian, Andy Beckett reviews the new book Last Futures: Nature, Technology, and the End of Architecture by Douglas Murphy, which examines the ferment of utopian architectural...
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Cory Doctorow: “I am skeptical that capitalism has a future”
@e_flux wrote: Jacobin interviews noted sci-fi author Cory Doctorow about the surveillance state, Edward Snowden, and utopia. Check out an excerpt below, or the full text here. Do you think all of the...
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Is it unethical to acclaim the work of morally reprehensible people?
@karenarchey wrote: When I came across an article titled, "A Great Artist Kills his Wife--Now She's Just a Quirky Footnote in his History," I thought certainly it would be about Carl Andre murdering...
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Dan Fox defends pretentiousness
@karenarchey wrote: Over at the Guardian, frieze editor Dan Fox writes about pretentiousness in all its shapes in forms, even coming to its defense. It seems Fox has dipped his toe into writing for...
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Kafka contemplates his messy desk
@e_flux wrote: Reiner Stach is the author of a renowned three-volume biography on groundbreaking modernist and general oddball Franz Kafka. While researching the biography, Stach came across various...
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Three visions of technological progress
@e_flux wrote: In the Boston Review, Meghan O’Gieblyn reviews three recent books on technology and progress: The Brain Electric: The Dramatic High-Tech Race to Merge Man and Machine by Malcolm Gay,...
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How to write about videogames
@e_flux wrote: At Public Books, Matt Margini reviews a trio of recent books about the emotional, social, and intellectual merits of videgames: Ian Bogost's How to Talk about Videogames, Carly A....
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