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Ben Vickers on Ian Cheng
@karenarchey wrote: I found myself at the Migros Museums in Zürich walking around a gallery marked with strips of tape, otherwise empty, following a virtual Shiba Inu via an interactive tablet...
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The populist moment
@e_flux wrote: Much ink has been spilled attempting to explain the recent resurgence of populism—of both the right-wing and left-wing varieties—in countries like Spain, Germany, the UK, and the US....
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The environmental impact of the data-center industry
@e_flux wrote: In The Atlantic, Ingrid Burrington reports on the complex chain of production, supply, and distribution that goes into calculating the environmental impact of data centers. While big...
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Selin Gökcesu: On Ankara
@karenarchey wrote: For Guernica, Selin Gökcesu writes about her hometown Ankara, the recent bombing there, and the abstract feelings of loss that come with grieving for a terrorist attack. See her...
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Geoffrey Bennington on Derrida's 'Of Grammatology: 40th Anniversary Edition'
@karenarchey wrote: For the Los Angeles Review of Books, Geoffrey Bennington writes about Derrida's "Of Grammatology," its 40th anniversary edition, and how the landmark philosophical text has evolved...
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Tyler Coburn: Live Coverage of Boris Groys on "The Truth of Art"
@kaye wrote: Join us tonight for a talk by Boris Groys on “The Truth of Art,” expanding on his text by the same title in the March issue of e-flux journal: “If artists want to change the world the...
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Alexander Galloway: "The idea that the humanities are in decline is simply...
@e_flux wrote: The LA Review of Books talks to Alexander Galloway about the digital humanities, a subject he's uniquely qualified to speak about; as a programmer and hacker, he understands the...
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David Graeber on the demonization of working-class solidarity
@e_flux wrote: In an op-ed for The Guardian, David Graeber calls the working class (into which he himself was born) the "caring class," in contrast to the stingy and selfish upper class. This is...
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Matteo Pasquinelli on carbosilicon assemblages and cyberfossil capital
@karenarchey wrote: Matteo Pasquinelli writes about carbosilicon assemblages and cyberfossil capital on his eponymous blog. He will give the paper, titled On the Technosphere of the Anthropocene: The...
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Camus in New York: A stranger in the city
@karenarchey wrote: Albert Camus visited New York in March 1946, and though he reportedly seemed overwhelmed and not particularly in love with the city, a group of Camus fans are launching a series of...
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The resurgence of women-only art shows
@e_flux wrote: Today in the New York Times, Hilarie M. Sheetsmarch reports on the recent increase in women-only shows at US museums and galleries, highlighting upcoming shows at Hauser Wirth &...
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On popular narratives of financial complexity
@e_flux wrote: In The New Inquiry, Miranda Trimmier writes about how popular narrative of high finance—such as those of Michael Lewis, or of novels like Don Delillo's Cosmopolis and Bret Easton...
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e-flux journal redux: Carol Yinghua Lu, 'Don’t Stop: Doing Art Potluck Style'
@karenarchey wrote: *This text was originally published in 2009 in issue #5 of our sister publication e-flux journal I recently received a call from a young artist based in Guangzhou. He spoke...
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Economist proves artist narcissism is positively associated with art market...
@karenarchey wrote: Yi Zhou is an Florida State University professor who specializes in empirical asset pricing, volatility, credit risk, default risk and derivatives, and art and finance. In a paper...
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The new VIDA Count is out
@e_flux wrote: VIDA, an organization for women in the literary arts, has just released its annual "VIDA Count," which calculates the gender ratio of authors published by major English-language...
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Robert Walser on looking at picture
@e_flux wrote: Since his work began to be widely translated into English a few years ago, Robert Walser, the Swiss writer of odd stories and novels who died in 1956, has become a darling of the more...
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Evgeny Morozov: "Tech firms now run Western politics"
@e_flux wrote: In an op-ed for The Guardian, Evgeny Morozov writes that Western governments, faced with a "legitimation crisis" of historic proportions—as evidenced by the rise in anti-establishment...
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"Chick-lit meets the avant-garde"
@e_flux wrote: In English-language literature, "experimental fiction" has usually been a sausage fest, with male authors like David Foster Wallace and Thomas Pynchon garnering endless accolades for...
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Thomas Beard and Douglas Crimp on queer cinema before Stonewall
@e_flux wrote: In the brand-spankin'-new April issue of Artforum, Douglas Crimp talks with Thomas Beard about "New Direction: Queer Cinema Before Stonewall," an upcoming film series at the Film...
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The US war for the Greater Middle East
@e_flux wrote: The Boston Review interviews retired US Army colonel turned critic of empire Andrew J. Bacevich, whose latest book, America’s War for the Greater Middle East, analyzes the US's...
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