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David Graeber on "despair fatigue"
@e_flux wrote: In The Baffler, David Graeber asks if, after years of self-sabotaging austerity, Britain has "become bored with hopelessness." Check out an excerpt below of the full text here. For...
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"Universities Are Becoming Billion-Dollar Hedge Funds With Schools Attached"
@e_flux wrote: In The Nation, Astra Taylor writes about the relatively underreported phenomenon of universities investing a portion of their endowments in risky hedge funds. This is done not only by...
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Walid Raad’s Spectral Archive, Part II: Testimony of Ghosts
@e_flux wrote: The March issue of e-flux journal includes the second part of Alan Gilbert's in-depth study of Walid Raad’s work. This installment focuses on the theme of ghosts in his art, from the...
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Abounaddara: Voices from a different Syria
@karenarchey wrote: For the New York Review of Books, Robyn Creswell writes about the Syrian film collective Abounaddara and their weekly videos. Their depiction of Syria, she writes, provides a...
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Evan Calder Williams on the history of sabotage
@e_flux wrote: In The New Inquiry, writer and artist Evan Calder Williams provides a fascinating history of sabotage—primarily of the workplace and military varieties. Check out an excerpt below of...
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Elena Ferrante children's book to be released in English
@karenarchey wrote: The Wall Street Journal reports that Elena Ferrante will release a 38-page book aimed at readers aged 6-10. Like her Neapolitan novels, the book, titled "The Beach at Night,"...
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The uneven literary merits of "climate change fiction"
@e_flux wrote: The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on the rapid growth of US college classes devoted to the subgenre of "climate change fiction," which has been given the regrettable nickname...
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Hal Foster on the Met Breuer
@karenarchey wrote: For the London Review of Books, Hal Foster writes about the Met Breuer, and the place the building occupies in New York's museum landscape. He also writes about the museum's...
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Jason Farago on Broodthaers and Brussels
@karenarchey wrote: For the New Yorker, Jason Farago writes about Belgian artist Marcel Broodthaers and his current exhibition at MoMA in the wake of the Brussels bombings. It so happens that...
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Trevor Paglen and Jacob Appelbaum in conversation
@e_flux wrote: BOMB magazine has a fascinating and disturbing conversation between Trevor Paglen and cyber-security expert and activist Jacob Appelbaum. They discuss the near-future of cyber...
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Tune in! Launch event for e-flux journal 71: "The Cracked Ming Cup" with Luis...
@kaye wrote: Tonight, Wednesday, March 23, at 7:30pm, we'll be gathered on East Broadway for a conversation between Luis Camnitzer, Liam Gillick, and K8 Hardy, prompted by Camnitzer's text in e-flux...
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Artist in Los Angeles devises clever and colorful way to fight gentrification
@e_flux wrote: As reported by The Guardian, Los Angeles artist Anne Hars, in collaboration with local tenants, has begun affixing bunches of colorful balloons to homes slated for demolition in...
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RuPaul on straight appropriation of gay culture
@karenarchey wrote: Vulture just published an interview E. Alex Young and RuPaul, who has a lot to say about straight appropriation of gay culture. Although RuPaul's persona on TV is somewhat sweet...
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e-flux journal redux: Michael Baers, 'Concerning Matters to be Left for a...
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The $9 computer
@e_flux wrote: In Pacific Standard magazine, Rick Paulas writes about a new bare-bones $9 computer that aims to eliminate the financial barrier for low-income people to enter the digital age. The...
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Why am I valuable? (Speech at an art fair)
@karenarchey wrote: unnamed.png465x625 309 KB Writer and activist Grace Dunham was invited to speak last year at New York's Frieze Art Fair, appearing alongside her longtime collaborator...
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Against activism
@e_flux wrote: In The Baffler, Astra Taylor writes about the emergence of the term "activism" and its gradual replacement of the more traditional term "organizing." While the latter emphasize patient,...
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Pelin Tan on terrorism, border conflict and urban warfare in Turkey
@karenarchey wrote: Originally published by the International Panel on Social Progress, author and professor Pelin Tan writes an op-ed from Turkey about the effect terrorism and border conflict has...
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The politics of literary translation
@e_flux wrote: On the blog of the NY Review of Books, novelist and translator Tim Parks discusses how and why particular translators are chosen to translate important literary works—a process that is...
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How to be an unprofessional artist
@karenarchey wrote: Some of us spend considerable time professionalizing our creative output in order to a.) hopefully make money and b.) feel like our ambitions aren't a total waste of time. Others,...
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