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Why does it seem like the news is always bad?
@e_flux wrote: It's become a common refrain of late to say that we live in "dark times." The world seems to grow inexorably more dangerous and unstable with each passing day. This impression is based...
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Venice Mayor acquires autonomous historic residency program amid community...
@karenarchey wrote: Artforum reports that the city of Venice has acquired the historic Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, which was founded in 1899 by duchess Felicita Bevilacqua to support young artists....
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Ana Teixeira Pinto on the cultural logic of the digital era
@e_flux wrote: For Witte de With Review, Ana Teixeira Pinto writes about two Berlin exhibitions, "Nervous Systems" at Haus der Kulturen der Welt and the 9th Berlin Biennale at Kunst Werke et al. She...
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Neoliberalism as a political project
@karenarchey wrote: For Jacobin, Bjarke Skærlund Risager speaks with economist David Harvey about that oft-misunderstood and even-more-oft-used term "neoliberalism" that has been peppering political...
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The misleading promise of tech-led urban development
@e_flux wrote: In an illuminating piece for the Boston Review, Ben Armstrong crunches the numbers to determine whether tech startups really are the solution to urban decay that city governments around...
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"How Exhaustion Became a Status Symbol"
@e_flux wrote: In the New Republic, Hannah Rosefield writes about a new book on a universal and curiously malleable condition: exhaustion. Exhaustion: A History by Anna Katharina Schaffner traces the...
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Communal living for the jet-setting creative class
@e_flux wrote: In the latest iteration of the misleadingly named "sharing economy," venture-capital-backed startups are buying entire buildings in hip New York neighborhoods and turning them into...
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Preliminary Notes on Why Sanders Lost the Democratic Primary
@DADABASE wrote: o-BERNIE-SANDERS-facebook.jpg2000x1000 374 KB So it turns out, Hillary won the Democratic Party’s nomination. Most people are mad or disappointed and a majority of them think it’s...
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Gayatri Spivak on Derrida, the subaltern, and her life and work
@karenarchey wrote: For the Los Angeles Review of Books, Steve Paulson interviews feminist, Marxist, and post-colonial studies scholar Gayatri Spivak. She speaks about what it was like to first...
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Matteo Pasquinelli on the sabotage of rent
@karenarchey wrote: For Cesura-Acceso, Matteo Pasquinelli writes about rent--among the annoyingest of monthly things--as well as gentrification, and art's relationship to it. Read Pasquinelli in...
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The dérive isn't just for dudes: On the flâneuse
@e_flux wrote: Writing in The Guardian, Lauren Elkin uncovers the hidden history of the flâneuse, the female counterpart of the city-strolling flâneur most famously epitomized by Baudelaire. While the...
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Addicted to failure: Millennials and the neoliberal job market
@e_flux wrote: Writing for the New Inquiry, Caroline Durlacher draws an interesting parallel between the self-help logic of Alcoholics Anonymous and the self-entrepreneurial logic of the neoliberal...
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China art sales booming in spite of global trends
@karenarchey wrote: Abby Schultz reports for Barron's that China's art auction sales are healthier than ever despite the art market slump seen in the West, and have surpassed the US and UK in sales...
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Erdoğan silences the opposition
@e_flux wrote: Writing in Le Monde diplomatique, Selahattin Demirtaş, an MP from Istanbul and a member of the People’s Democratic Party (HDP), denounces President Erdoğan's recent efforts to silence...
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Rio, capital of disaster capitalism
@e_flux wrote: The 2016 Summer Olympics begin this Friday in Rio, after months of stories about unfinished infrastructure, inadequate security, and unsafe sports facilities. The games are taking place...
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Artists in Egypt turn abandoned spaces into DIY art galleries
@e_flux wrote: In Mada Masr, an independent, progressive news website based in Cairo, Rowan El Shimi writes about the innovative exhibition work of Mahatat for Contemporary Arts, an Egyptian art...
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Why the booming contemporary art market is bad for art museums
@karenarchey wrote: For the Washington Post, Robert Ekelund writes about museums, their historic lack of funding, and their outlook for the future. He considers the very different circumstances of the...
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The Coup Diary: May you not live in interesting times
@karenarchey wrote: Screen shot 2016-08-04 at 16.24.08.png1122x628 1.16 MB Turkish journalist Ece Temelkuran has written a diary during the recent military coup in Turkey. Published on Zed Books's...
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Nicholas Mirzoeff on what protest looks like
@e_flux wrote: In a fascinating conversation for The Stone, the philosophy blog of the New York Times, Natasha Lennard talks with activist and professor of media Nicholas Mirzoeff about the visual...
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Nina Power: Why don’t women stop playing this rigged capitalist game?
@e_flux wrote: In an op-ed for the Guardian, Nina Power responds to recent anti-feminist remarks made by Kevin Roberts, who resigned his position as chairman of Saatchi & Saatchi after a public...
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