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Paul Mattick on the withering of the state today
@e_flux wrote: In the new June issue of the Brooklyn Rail, Paul Mattick asks why governments across the world seem to have so much trouble today meeting the basic needs of their citizens, whether for...
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On the labor of dating
@e_flux wrote: In the June issue of Harper's Magazine, Lidija Haas reviews two books on the pitfalls and possibilities of romantic loveon : Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating by Moira Weigel and...
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Exhibition Tour: Berlin Biennial 9 at ESMT and Reederei Riedel
@e_flux wrote: IMG_7507.JPG1280x1280 425 KB Katja Novitskova, ESMT Following from our last two exhibition tours of Berlin Biennial 9: The Present in Drag at Akademie der Künste and KW / Feuerle...
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The future of the internet, as seen from 1993
@e_flux wrote: At the New Yorker website, Anna Wiener pages through old issues of Wired magazine, which published its first issue in April 1993, to discover what the tech-geeks of that era imagined...
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Geeta Kapur rebukes Jonathan Jones for cheap potshots at Indian painter
@karenarchey wrote: For the Guardian, Jonathan Jones wrote a salty review on Indian painter Bhupen Khakhar's recent exhibition at the Tate Modern. He argued that Khakhar was a pastiche neo-figurative...
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Architecture for the one percent
@e_flux wrote: At the Jacobin website, Alex Cocotas looks at buildings designed by Zaha Hadid and other "starchitects"—which are often poorly constructed and massively overbudget—to ask why mainstream...
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Innovative museum programs help the blind experience visual art
@e_flux wrote: In The Atlantic, Jacoba Urist reports on innovative programs at museums like the Met and the Guggenheim that attempt to help visually impaired patrons experience visual art. This...
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Vito Acconci: I hated the word "artist"
@karenarchey wrote: Screen shot 2016-06-09 at 13.48.10.png895x603 258 KB Randy Kennedy writes a profile on the delightfully outspoken artist and architect Vito Acconci, who is the subject of an...
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Richard Misrach's photos show the absurdity of the US-Mexico border
@e_flux wrote: In The Nation, John Washington writes about a powerful new photography book called Border Cantos, a collaboration between photographer Richard Misrach and experimental composer...
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Live coverage: Filipa Ramos on "Thinking at the Edge of the World" in Svalbard
@karenarchey wrote: Please join us June 12-13th as art-agenda Editor-in-Chief Filipa Ramos (@filipa) reports on the "Thinking at the Edge of the World" conference from Svalbard, Norway--one of the...
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Arseny Zhilyaev in conversation with Boris Groys: “Contemporary art is the...
@e_flux wrote: zhilyaev.jpg1500x994 123 KB This recent conversation is part of the Center for Experimental Museology, a collaborative project between COLTA.RU and the V-A-C Foundation. Arseny...
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Gender fluidity and the waning power of men
@e_flux wrote: In The Guardian, Amanda Holpuch writes about the new book The Fate of Gender: Nature, Nurture, and the Human Future by former science reporter Frank Browning. As Holpuch explains,...
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MoMA curator Sally Berger fired over disinviting documentarian to film festival
@karenarchey wrote: The New York Times reports that MoMA associate curator Sally Berger disinvited Russian filmmaker Vitaly Mansky to the Doc Fortnight festival due to its controversial content that...
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"Smart homes" and women's domestic labor
@e_flux wrote: At the New Inquiry, Ava Kofman refutes the idea that "smart homes" will lead to a revolutionary change in the organization of domestic life. Instead, argues Kofman, smart homes as...
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"Terrorism: The Wrong Conversation"
@e_flux wrote: At the website of the New York Review of Books, Masha Gessen, the author of Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy, a book about the brothers who planted bombs at the Boston Marathon...
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"An Art Work About the Dark Web, On the Dark Web"
@e_flux wrote: At the New Yorker website, Daniel Wenger writes the video series “Dark Content” by the artists Eva and Franco Mattes. The series explores the strange and often hidden world of content...
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Graham Harman: In Defense of Freud
@e_flux wrote: At the website of Repeater Books—a UK-based small press publishing short, intellectually adventurous theory books—Graham Harman has a brief appreciation of Freud. Contrary to a lot of...
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Huw Lemmey on Gay Pride after Orlando
@karenarchey wrote: There have been a slew of think pieces following the tragedy in Orlando, and I think Huw Lemmey's simple but pointed piece in the LRB says it best: Pride has been depoliticized,...
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Pasolini an Italy's proletarian coastline
@e_flux wrote: For Bookforum, Ara H. Merjian, professor of Italian studies at NYU, writes about Pier Paolo Pasolini's recently translated travelogue documenting his 1959 road trip along the entirety...
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Design and control
@e_flux wrote: At the Frieze blog, Alice Rawsthorn suggests that as the objects we interact with everyday grow rapidly and exponentially more complex (e.g., computers, smart phones, smart cars),...
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