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On decolonial archeology
@e_flux wrote: In a piece from the November issue of The New Inquiry, anthropologist Uzma Rizvi evokes a trip to an archeological dig in the UAE and explores what it means to practice "decolonial"...
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McKenzie Wark on climate, colonialism, and Eyal Weizman
@e_flux wrote: At Public Seminar, McKenzie Wark does a deep reading of Eyal Weizman's recent book The Conflict Shoreline (with photographs by Fazal Sheikh), about Israel's effort to displace and...
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Tyler Coburn on outsider art and Paul Laffoley
@karenarchey wrote: *This text was originally published in our sister publication art-agenda The past decade has seen a shift in art’s center/periphery model, as so-called “Outsider Art” gains both...
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Boris Groys on Irwin and NSK
@e_flux wrote: The November issue of e-flux journal was rolled out this week, and it includes an essay by Boris Groys on Irwin and NSK, marking the thirtieth anniversary of the groundbreaking...
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Arguing the new Broad Museum in LA
@e_flux wrote: The LA Review of Books has set up a "point-counterpoint" argument about the new Broad Museum in downtown LA. On one side, Tucker Neel, in a piece called "Beyond The Broad: A Better...
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Russian Performance Artist Sets Fire to FSB Entryway
@oleksiy_radynski wrote: Pyotr Pavlensky, a famous Russian performance artist, was arrested in Moscow after setting fire to the doorway of the Federal Security Service (FSB) office building, Interfax...
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Living and dying on Airbnb
@karenarchey wrote: Zak Stone, a writer based in LA who has previously covered tech and the sharing company for magazines like Fast Company, rented a house via Airbnb with his parents in Austin two...
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From Eco-Art to Biopolitical Struggle on the Eve of COP21
@e_flux wrote: The November issue of the Brooklyn Rail features a host of responses from artists and intellectuals to a questionnaire circulated by the magazine on the subject of art and ecological...
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Emotional labor: feminism's next frontier?
@karenarchey wrote: In the Guardian, Rose Hackman writes about gendered expectations and emotional labor. That is, keeping track of the wants, needs, and preferences of those around us while we...
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Reza Negarestani: What is philosophy?
@e_flux wrote: In the November issue of e-flux journal, Reza Negarestani asks (and begins to answer) the most philosophical of all philosophical questions: What is philosophy? Subtitled "Axioms and...
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Robert Hughes on the good ol' days of art critics with expense accounts
@karenarchey wrote: Vanity Fair has published an excerpt of Robert Hughes's posthumous memoir, "The Spectacle of Skill." Here's an excerpt of that excerpt in which he reminisces about the good ol'...
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Nabokov's love letters to his wife
@karenarchey wrote: For the New York Review of Books, Stacy Schiff writes about Nabokov's letters to his wife. As one can imagine, he was a brilliant coiner of pet names, such as tigercubkin,...
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Brian Massumi: Undigesting Deleuze
@e_flux wrote: On the twentieth anniversary of Gilles Deleuze's death, the LA Review of Books has gathered together a handful of Deleuze scholars to reflect on the philosopher's legacy and relevance...
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How Chantal Akerman's suicide alters her final artwork
@e_flux wrote: At The Guardian, Adrian Searle visits a recently opened exhibition of Chantal Akerman's work, including the final piece she finished before her death. The exhibition is all the more...
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Douglas Coupland: How hoarding and collecting Is the stuff of life and death
@e_flux wrote: In the November issue of e-flux journal, Douglas Coupland contemplates how various forms of collecting—including art collecting—function as both a denial of, and an unconscious...
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London council rejects affordable artist studio plan for Bold Tendencies carpark
@karenarchey wrote: Troubling news from London: The Southwark council has rejected plans by gallerist Hannah Barry and cultural venue Second Home to convert the Peckham car park known for hosting Bold...
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A history of money in Argentina
@e_flux wrote: At Public Books, Michael Duffy reviews the novel A History of Money by Alan Pauls, an Argentine novelist, critic, and professor of literary and film theory at the University of Buenos...
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Manuel Arturo Abreu on "online imagined Black English" in Arachne
@karenarchey wrote: An exciting new web publication titled Arachne has just launched, edited by writer Dorothy Howard. According to its editorial, "The zine’s thematics of gender, labor, and...
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e-flux journal redux: Irit Rogoff, 'Turning'
@karenarchey wrote: This text was originally published in issue 0 of e-flux journal, November 2008 We have recently heard much about the “educational turn in curating” among several other “educational...
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The films of Ana Mendieta
@e_flux wrote: In the November issue of Artforum, Ara Osterweil reflects on the films of Ana Mendieta on the occasion of the exhibition "Covered in Time and History: The Films of Ana Mendieta” at the...
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