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Franco Moretti: "'Digital humanities’ means nothing”
@e_flux wrote: In the LA Review of Books, Melissa Dinsman talks to Franco Moretti about what exactly the "digital humanities"—a sprawling assemblage of tools and approaches, reviled by some and lauded...
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Owen Hatherley on Soviet milk bars and utopian cafeterias
@e_flux wrote: n+1 has an interesting excerpt from Owen Hatherley's new book Landscapes of Communism, in which he revisits Soviet-era communal eating facilities in Russia, Slovakia, Poland, and...
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The new Met Breuer (in the Whitney's old building) is off to a shaky start
@e_flux wrote: In The Guardian, Jason Farago reports on the Met's new museum for modern and contemporary art, the Met Breuer, which is housed in the lightly renovated former home of the Whitney on the...
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Agnes Martin on not thinking
@karenarchey wrote: Chuck Smith and Sono Kuwayama interview Agnes Martin in Taos, New Mexico in November 1997. She talks about inspiration, not thinking, slams "artists today" and conceptual art a...
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Why you can't trust GPS in China
@karenarchey wrote: If you've ever visited China, you'll know that Western internet staples such as Gmail, Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter don't work. This includes Google Maps, which kind of works, but...
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The impossibly miniature drawings of Matthias Buchinger
@e_flux wrote: At the blog of the NY Review of Books, Christopher Benfey writes about Matthias Buchinger, a fascinating figure who is the subject of an exhibition currently on view at the Met in New...
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David Rimanelli's defense of Dash Snow a feat of cognitive dissonance
@karenarchey wrote: In the March issue of Texte zur Kunst, David Rimanelli attempts to redeem Dash Snow and his lukewarm exhibition "Freeze Means Run" at the Brant Foundation in Greenwich,...
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Boris Groys: "The politics of modern and contemporary art is the politics of...
@e_flux wrote: In the March issue of e-flux journal, which was released earlier this week, Boris Groys considers how the internet, and art's ever increasing integration with it, shape both art objects...
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The "semiotic disobedience" of Hank Willis Thomas
@e_flux wrote: In the Brooklyn Rail, Sonia K. Katyal has a short reflection on African-American artist Hank Willis Thomas, who appropriates tropes from advertising to saying damning things about...
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Kathleen Hanna on second-wave feminist art
@karenarchey wrote: For T Magazine, Kathleen Hanna of Le Tigre fame sits down with Emily Spivack to talk about her most prized possession: a natural "feminist art" piece she found on eBay. Hanna has...
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A history of the barricade
@e_flux wrote: In the LA Review of Books, theorist and poet Joshua Clover reviews Eric Hazan's A History of the Barricade, published in English last fall by Verso. Clover questions the conventional...
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Agitprop!: A Conversation with Martha Rosler, Nancy Buchanan, and Andrea Bowers
@e_flux wrote: The March issue of e-flux journal features a conversation among Martha Rosler, Nancy Buchanan, and Andrea Bowers that originally took place at the Brooklyn Museum last month, in...
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Art galleries face pressure to fund museum shows
@karenarchey wrote: For the New York Times, Robin Pogrebin writes about a peculiar new industry standard: galleries funding their artist's exhibitions at museums. While it seems about right that...
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The beautiful, proto-feminist snark of Jane Austen's juvenilia
@karenarchey wrote: For LitHub, Devoney Looser writes about Jane Austen's juvenilia, which apparently included much snark and many cute misspellings. Check out the excerpt below, or the full version...
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Luc Boltanski on the "mysteries & conspiracies" of genre fiction
@e_flux wrote: In the n+1 website, Evan Kindley reviews a newly translated book by the influential French sociologist Luc Boltanski, entitled Mysteries & Conspiracies. A departure from other works...
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We’ve hit a troubling climate change milestone
@e_flux wrote: In the Boston Globe, Bill McKibben reports that last week, the earth passed a climate change milestone that confirms an increasingly unavoidable truth: climate change is not a future...
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"Freeportism" and post-internet art
@e_flux wrote: In the March issue of e-flux journal, Stefan Heidenreich argues that post-internet art is troublingly (if perhaps unwittingly) conducive to an era of "freeportism," in which it's more...
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e-flux journal redux: Elena Filipovic, 'A Museum That is Not'
@karenarchey wrote: *This text was originally published in 2009 in issue #4 our sister publication, e-flux journal One could say that everything begins and ends in Marcel Duchamp’s studio. His first...
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An 'epic' takedown
@karenarchey wrote: For the New Yorker, Nathan Heller writes about the most annoying word revival: epic. After reading this text last week, I realized the word "epic" is almost everywhere--or at least...
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Art studios on fire
@e_flux wrote: n+1 has an excerpt from the introduction to On Fire, a new oral history of fires in art studios, which, the book demonstrates, are far more common than you might think. The book is...
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