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Kim Stanley Robinson on AI and the future of history
@e_flux wrote: For Public Books, Dave Haeselin interviews influential science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson, whose latest novel, Aurora, is set in the 26th century. It imagines the first human...
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Louis Menand on taste in the internet age
@e_flux wrote: In the New Yorker, Louis Menand examines the vexed subject of taste in the internet era, by way of two books touching on the subject: You May Also Like: Taste in the Age of Endless...
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The gay '70s: From "queer power" to "gay rights"
@e_flux wrote: At Public Books, Sam Metz reviews two new books about US gay activism in the 1970s: Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation by Jim Downs and Queer Clout: Chicago and the...
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China MiƩville: Politics of, and, and in Art
@e_flux wrote: At the website of the UK socialist journal Salvage, sci fi writer China MiĆ©ville examines how political battlesāfor example, for women's liberationāare often displaced onto cultural...
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McKenzie Wark on Judith Butler's 'Notes Towards a Performative Theory of...
@karenarchey wrote: McKenzie Wark writes about Judith Butler's new book Notes Towards a Performative Theory of Assembly, which he seems to have a kind of love-hate relationship. Wark's thoughts are a...
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Rare Candy and collaborators withdraw work from Berlin Biennale over...
@e_flux wrote: IMG_0758.jpg1333x1000 854 KB Editorial note: this open letter was sent to us by Rare Candy. It is reproduced in full here. Rare Candy, together with our collaborators Alden Epp, Spencer...
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Anthropology and the national security state
@e_flux wrote: In The Nation, Peter C. Baker writes about the latest book by anthropologist David Price, who has spent his career exposing and battling against his discipline's long and sordid history...
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Homi K. Bhabha on language, identity, and migration
@e_flux wrote: In a moving piece for the summer issue of Artforum, Homi K. Bhabha employs Ta-Nehisi Coates and Frantz Fanon as points of entry for discussing the body and "writing the void" as they...
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Frank Zappa: Never a hippie, always a freak
@e_flux wrote: At the n+1 website, Paul Grimstad reviews the new documentary Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words, directed by Thorsten SchĆ¼tte. Grimstad praises the documentary for...
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"Why Alton Sterling and Philando Castile Are Dead"
@e_flux wrote: Writing movingly in The Nation, Kai Wright contends that the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile this week, along with the deaths of an appalling number other people of color...
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Why can't the pundit class understand the electoral outrage of young people?
@e_flux wrote: At Pacific Standard magazine, Malcolm Harris argues that the pundit class wildly misunderstands the politics of young people in the US and UK, as reflected in their voting patterns in...
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Liam Gillick: Unleash the Butterflies: The Failure of Culture in the Face of...
@e_flux wrote: *This text was first published in German in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on July 4th, 2016. It is published here in the original English with permission from the author...
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McKenzie Wark on the anti-racist vision of Paul Gilroy
@e_flux wrote: Paul Gilroy is a professor of American and English Literature at King's College London and author of the groundbreaking book The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness...
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Evading the twins traps of "positive thinking" and nihilistic despair
@e_flux wrote: Writing at The Baffler website, Laurie Penny denounces the ideology of "wellness" for disguising systemic social problems as individual maladies that can be cured by healthy eating,...
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Albert Einstein on race relations in America
@karenarchey wrote: In 1946, a decade after he immigrated to the United States, theoretical physicist Albert Einstein wrote an essay titled "The Negro Question" about the alarming state of race...
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Charles Esche on social change and the future of Europe
@karenarchey wrote: In conversation with ArtReview, Charles Esche speaks about what he sees as a paradigmatic shift happening in Europe in the arts and beyond. He speaks about the growing desire for...
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Michelle Alexander: "I no longer believe we can 'fix' the police"
@e_flux wrote: Michelle Alexander is a professor of law at Ohio State University and author of the bestselling book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2012), which...
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"The Hypochondriac in the Landscape" by Walter Benjamin
@e_flux wrote: BOMB magazine has a new translation of a short fiction piece by Walter Benjamin entitled "The Hypochondriac in the Landscape." Written between 1906 and 1912, the story is strange,...
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Was Philip K. Dick a madman or mystic?
@karenarchey wrote: For Publishers Weekly, Kyle Arnold writes about the prolific author Philip K. Dick. Apparently, the sci-fi author published 34 novels in his lifetime and developed frequent...
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"Filtering dissent": Social media algorithms and web-based political...
@e_flux wrote: In the May-June 2016 issue of New Left Review, Rodrigo Ochigame and James Holston examine the filtering algorithms of social media platforms like Facebook, asking how these supposedly...
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