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Eileen Myles on Hillary Clinton
@karenarchey wrote: I've gone out of my way to not post much about the presidential election because, well, we're all pretty much inundated by election talk on our feeds, anyway. I was surprised,...
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Slavoj Žižek – Objects, Objects Everywhere: A Critique of Object Oriented...
@karenarchey wrote: We've come across an excerpt of Žižek's new book, Slavoj Žižek and Dialectical Materialism, in which he graces us with his opinion on object-oriented-ontology. The excerpt below,...
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Thomas Nagel on the ethics of drones
@e_flux wrote: In the just-released March issue of the London Review of Books, philosopher Thomas Nagel reviews the book Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President and the Rise of the Drone by Scott...
View ArticleCatherine Opie: "Right now I’m more interested in the subconscious"
@e_flux wrote: The LA Review of Books has produced an illuminating twelve-minute video about the work of queer LA photographer Catherine Opie, which can be viewed above. Below is an excerpt from the...
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The Propaganda of Pantone: Color and Subcultural Sublimation
@karenarchey wrote: Pasted image1000x667 379 KB For Loki Design, Kevin Yuen Kit Lo writes about the Pantone Colors of the Year, Rose Quartz and Serenity, and how they, like previous colors of the...
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Ahmed Naji, the Use of Life and the zombies
@karenarchey wrote: Richard Jacquemond writes about Egyptian author Ahmed Naji, who has been jailed for writing sexually explicit passages in his novel "Istikhdam al-Hayah (The Use of Life)," which...
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Wolfgang Streeck on the twilight of social democracy
@e_flux wrote: Jacobin has a lengthly interview with influential German political economist Wolfgang Streeck, who offers his thoughts on the future of social democracy in Europe. His prognosis is not...
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Is criticism an art in it's own right?
@e_flux wrote: In Bookforum, Laura Kipnis reviews Better Living Through Criticism by A. O. Scott, long-time film critic at the New York Times. In the book, Scott seeks to carve out a humble space for...
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Can the teaching of art be exhibited?
@karenarchey wrote: For The Nation, Barry Schwabsky writes about the teaching of art, as well as the exhibition of teaching art, in particular the recent exhibitions on Black Mountain College at ICA...
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Did Facebook introduce emoticons to improve their data mining?
@karenarchey wrote: Despite our hopes and dreams for a dislike button, Facebook rolled out their new emoticon reactions this week, debuting "haha," "love," "wow," "sad," and "angry." Jack Smith of...
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Experimental film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980
@e_flux wrote: In the LA Review of Books, film critic Jordan Cronk reviews Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980, a collection of essays and historical texts about the...
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The post-cubicle office: does it make employees any happier or more productive?
@e_flux wrote: In the NY Times Magazine, Nikil Saval, author of the book Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace, writes about the "post-cubicle" trend in office design. Do blond wood and open floor...
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Rauschenberg Foundation eases copyright restrictions on artwork documentation
@karenarchey wrote: Any of us who have worked in museums or published books know what a pain sourcing artwork documentation image rights can be. Foundations are slow to respond to emails and fees for...
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Open letter to the Lord Mayor of the City of Leverkusen from Gerhard Richter
@karenarchey wrote: Mr. Uwe RichrathLord Mayor of the City of LeverkusenTown HallFriedrich Ebert Platz 151373 Leverkusen Open Letter to the Lord Mayor of the City of Leverkusen Dear Mr. Richrath, I...
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The business of empathy
@e_flux wrote: In the Harvard Business Review, Belinda Parmar argues for the importance of empathy—as a business principle and employee-management tool—in the corporate world, where such touchy-feely...
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Restoring Eileen Gray's forgotten midcentury masterpiece
@karenarchey wrote: Pasted image876x584 1.04 MB We've all heard of Le Corbusier, but who is Eileen Gray? As the below article in Architect Magazine attests, she is a wildly under-appreciated...
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Are the 90s-era Crypto Wars heating up again?
@karenarchey wrote: For The Intercept, Dan Froomkin and Jenna McLaughlin write about the FBI's recent court order to Apple mandating that the technology company create a "back door," granting the...
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Technology helps bring prison walls into the streets
@e_flux wrote: At Public Seminar, Alexandra Mateescu writes about how increasingly sophisticated mobile and satellite technology has made it possible to minutely monitor former prisoners in the US...
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Artists release 3-D scan of prized Egyptian artifact to protest colonial looting
@e_flux wrote: As the NY Times reports, German artists Nora al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles visited the Neues Museum in Berlin late last year and surreptitiously took a 3-D scan of a 3,000-years-old...
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e-flux journal redux: Dieter Lesage, 'The Academy is Back: On Education, the...
@karenarchey wrote: *This text was originally published in 2009 in issue #4 of our sister publication, e-flux journal A Biennial plans to take the form of an art school on Cyprus and ends up as a...
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