Brian Dillon on Hannah Höch: art's original punk
@karenarchey wrote: For the Guardian, Brian Dillon writes about pioneering German collage artist Hannah Höch and her recent exhibition at Whitechapel in London. Check out an excerpt below, or the full...
View Articlee-flux journal redux: Boris Groys, 'Religion in the Age of Digital Reproduction'
@karenarchey wrote: This text was originally published in 2009 in issue #4 of our sister publication e-flux journal The general consensus of the contemporary mass media is that the return of religion...
View ArticleThe past and present of the "Red Man" myth in Russia
@e_flux wrote: In the February issue of e-flux journal, Ilya Budraitskis writes about the "Red Man" myth, a figure of Soviet ideology that served to explain away the USSR's failures, and that serves...
View ArticleMohammad Salemy on anthropocinema
@karenarchey wrote: 12751697_10207593465568857_2068606167_o.jpg1168x848 65 KB Below, writer and New Centre organizer Mohammad Salemy (@dadabase) writes about the path cinema has taken since the 20th...
View ArticleDoes fossil fuel divestment work?
@e_flux wrote: In the Boston Review, David G. Victor writes skeptically about student-led campaigns to get universities to divest from fossil fuel, suggesting that universities hold a small fraction...
View ArticleManifesto of Foucault's Groupe d’Information sur les prisons (1971)
@e_flux wrote: Viewpoint Magazine has a new translation of the founding manifesto of the Groupe d’Information sur les prisons, a militant research group in France dedicated to uncovering and...
View ArticleThe story behind Tom Otterness's strange 8th Ave subway sculptures
@karenarchey wrote: If you, like me, have ever wondered about the strange bronze-casted cartoon characters with money bag heads in the 14th St and 8th Ave subway station, New York Daily News has the...
View ArticleA public appeal to the government of Croatia for the dismissal of the...
@karenarchey wrote: *We were notified by a colleague about this petition, originally posted on Kulturnjaci, and are reposting it in support of this cause. INTRODUCTION The recently established...
View ArticleWhere do morals come from?
@e_flux wrote: At Public Books, Philip Gorski, a professor of sociology at Yale, reviews the book Ethical Life: Its Natural and Social Histories by Webb Keane. Gorski begins by asserting that the...
View ArticleChallenging the biological basis of sex
@e_flux wrote: The New Inquiry has an interview with Anne Fausto-Sterling, professor of biology and gender studies at Brown University and author of the books Myths of Gender and Sexing the Body. Her...
View ArticleLive coverage: Glass Bead launch at Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers 19-20 Feb
@karenarchey wrote: e-flux conversations is pleased to present live coverage of the Glass Bead launch event, "The Depth and the Ply," written by Sabrina Tarasoff. Please join us for Tarasoff's...
View ArticleAre we hopelessly hooked to digital technology?
@karenarchey wrote: For New York Review of Books, Jacob Weisberg writes about our hopeless addiction to hand-held technology, and its effect on our social behavior. Check out an excerpt below, or the...
View ArticleCharles Mudede on interdependency, morality, and the migrant crisis
@e_flux wrote: In the February issue of e-flux journal, Charles Tonderai Mudede uses Moussa Touré’s 2012 film The Pirogue—about a boat full of African migrants bound for Europe—as an entryway into a...
View ArticleThe women who pioneered film editing
@karenarchey wrote: For Premium Beat, Michael Maher writes about four women who pioneered film editing in Hollywood. Oftentimes related to cameramen, actors or directors, these women were offered...
View Articlee-flux journal redux: Dieter Roelstraete, 'The Way of the Shovel: On the...
@karenarchey wrote: *This text was originally published in 2009 in issue #4 of our sister publication e-flux journal He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man...
View ArticleThe golden age of surveillance
@e_flux wrote: If the US "intelligence community" is to be believed, sophisticated encryption, such as the kind currently being defended by Apple against FBI intrusion, has erected serious barriers to...
View ArticleLola Ridge: The radical modernist poet we won't forget twice
@e_flux wrote: At the Boston Review, Terese Svoboda writes about forgotten modernist poet, immigrant, and anarchist Lola Ridge, best known in her day for radical verses about the immigrant ghettos of...
View ArticleChris Kraus and Sylvere Lotringer visit This American Life in 1998
@karenarchey wrote: Since the announcement last week that Amazon ordered a TV adaptation of I Love Dick from Transparent director Jill Soloway, I've wondered: Will this be amazing? Who will play Dick?...
View ArticleHow subjectivity is constituted by financial relations
@e_flux wrote: The New Inquiry interviews Miranda Joseph, author of the book Debt to Society: Accounting for Life under Capitalism, which argues that accounting practices of all types—financial...
View ArticlePhong Bui on the beauty of independent publishing
@e_flux wrote: In the Brooklyn Rail, the magazine's publisher and editor in chief reviews Encounters: My Life in Publishing by George Braziller, one of the pioneers of independent publishing in the...
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