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What is money?: On Bitcoin
@e_flux wrote: In the London Review of Books, John Lanchester provides a brief history of money and shows how bitcoin represents a natural evolution of this history. Prior to the emergence of modern...
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Facebook struggles as users share fewer personal updates
@karenarchey wrote: Given its near decade-long reign as the most widely adopted social network, Facebook seems unbeatable in 2016. Since it was founded in 2004, Facebook has grown exponentially,...
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How word processing changed the way we write
@e_flux wrote: In Bookforum, Eric Banks reviews the book Track Changes by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, a history of word processing, from the 1964 introduction of IBM's Magnetic Tape Selectric Typewriter...
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The intellectual genealogy connecting Marx and Foucault
@e_flux wrote: At the Verso blog, Razmig Keucheyan—author of The Left Hemisphere: Mapping Critical Theory Today, a superb history of critical theory—discusses the intellectual genealogy connecting...
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USC MFAs who withdrew in protest to show as collective
@karenarchey wrote: Last year this May, the entire USC MFA first year class dropped out due to a forced renegotiation of their recruitment terms set forth by Roski administrators. (We covered this via...
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STRIKE ART, Question 2: Let's talk about Yates McKee's 2016 book on art,...
@e_flux wrote: Continuing the discussion from STRIKE ART, Question 1: Let's talk about Yates McKee's 2016 book on art, activism & Occupy: Strike Art: Contemporary Art and the Post-Occupy...
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Judith Butler on updating 'queer' to be trans-inclusive
@karenarchey wrote: For the journal Sexualities, Goldsmiths professor Sara Ahmed interviews Judith Butler about the enduring legacy of Gender Trouble. Butler speaks to Ahmed about issues relating to...
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On the lack of job security in the tech world
@karenarchey wrote: For the New York Times, Dan Lyons writes about his time at HubSpot, a Cambridge-based start-up that used the term "graduating" rather than "firing" when someone was let go. He...
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"Demeaning the future": A critique of Srnicek and Williams's Inventing the...
@e_flux wrote: In Mute magazine, De-Arrest Editorial Services offers a scathing critique of Nick Srnicek & Alex Williams’ accelerationist work Inventing the Future, arguing that the book envisions...
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Guggenheim ends discussions with Gulf Labor Artist Coalition
@karenarchey wrote: *This letter was sent to e-flux this morning by Guggenheim Director Richard Armstrong. It is pasted in entirety here. April 17, 2016 Dear Colleague, In 2007, the Guggenheim...
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Gulf Labor Coalition responds to Guggenheim's termination of labor talks
@karenarchey wrote: *This response was sent to e-flux, among other publications, by Gulf Labor Coalition On April 13, 2016, Guggenheim Board of Trustees unilaterally severed negotiations with the Gulf...
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A novel of the paranoid US security state
@e_flux wrote: In Public Books, Travis Chi Wing Lau reflects on the recent novel Not on Fire, But Burning by Greg Hrbek, which imagines a future America in which Muslims have been herded into...
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Excerpts from Kathy Acker's unpublished dream journals
@e_flux wrote: The April issue of Brooklyn Rail has an excerpt from the recent book Homage to Leroi Jones & Other Early Works, a collection of “exercises” or "prose-poem-word-plays" from Kathy...
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Brian Droitcour on Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch's new work
@karenarchey wrote: Brian Droitcour writes about Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch's new videos. Droitcour pays close attention to their multi-camera footage, which has evolved since the duo's earlier...
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Eileen Myles's unexpected surge in popularity
@karenarchey wrote: While Eileen Myles has long been held sacred in the halls of feminism, lesbian culture, and the New York poetry world, only recently has she seen mainstream success. That is...
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"Unfree Verse": Joshua Clover on being paid for poetry
@e_flux wrote: At the Poetry Foundations's blog, poet and theorist Joshua Clover writes about the false freedom of poetry, which is often held up as an art form uniquely unencumbered by economic logic...
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Anti-depressants are good for business
@e_flux wrote: At the Baffler blog, Gary Greenberg reports on a recent study by the World Health Organization claiming that a relatively modest global investment in anti-depressants and “psychosocial...
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Sorry, you can't speed read
@karenarchey wrote: Screen shot 2016-04-20 at 14.14.09.png1054x703 990 KB A new study suggests that speed reading, the activity that aims to increase the speed of language comprehension by glancing...
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Henri Cole on Jenny Holzer
@karenarchey wrote: The poet Henri Cole writes elegantly about Jenny Holzer and her use of light and text. Holzer has used Cole's poetry in her own works, including a piece that was projected upon the...
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The novel in the age of digital diversion
@e_flux wrote: At Public Books, Anna E. Clark reviews a trio of recent novels that take a refreshing approach to digital interaction, suggesting that it has not so much ruined our ability to...
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