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Invoking the translator: A conversation with Raqs Media Collective
@e_flux wrote: At Public Books, Avishek Ganguly talks with the Raqs Media Collective about literariness and translation in their work. Although the collective—Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula, and...
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The exception to Europe's rightward turn: Spain
@e_flux wrote: While much of Europe has recently witnessed a resurgence of ultra-right politics, Spain has largely avoided this trend, despite having one of the most troubled economies on the...
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Negate the present and the future will take care of itself
@e_flux wrote: The current issue of Wdw Review has a special section edited by Orit Gat called "Future," wherein several writers consider whether there is still a need for futurist thinking today. The...
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Fear envelopes the art community is post-coup Istanbul
@e_flux wrote: Isabelle Wesselingh of France 24 reports on the bleak mood in the Istanbul art community after the July coup attempt and subsequent crackdown on freedom of expression. Many artists, art...
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Why is poetry #trending in contemporary art?
@e_flux wrote: Writing in the New Inquiry, critic and poet Daniel Penny speculates about why more and more poetry has filtered into contemporary over the past few years. He suggests that it has...
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Chinese tech firms creating mutant super-apps that outpace their Western...
@karenarchey wrote: China's internet is cordoned off from the rest of the world by what some journalists call The Great Firewall. The services provided by Western tech companies that many of us use...
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Q & A with Geert Lovink on social movements and (anti)social media
@e_flux wrote: Over at the blog of The Baffler, Will Meyer talks to Geert Lovink about his new book, Social Media Abyss: Critical Internet Cultures and the Force of Negation, the central thesis of...
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Chrissie Iles on experimental film
@karenarchey wrote: For Sloan Science & Film, Sonia Epistein interviews Whitney curator Chrissie Iles, who is hard at work on the upcoming survey Dreamlands. The exhibition will look at a history...
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An "archive of anger": The Leon Trotsky Museum in Mexico City
@e_flux wrote: The Leon Trotsky Museum in Mexico City is both a drab and stirring place, writes Jennifer Wilson in Public Books. The museum occupies the house where Trotsky lived in exile after...
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Mo Salemy on Berlin's belated biennale: A response to the responses
@karenarchey wrote: For Ocula, Mo Salemy writes about the 9th Berlin Biennale and the many varied responses it got from the press. Read Salemy in partial below, or in full via Ocula. When I walked...
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The UN combats gender-based "cyber violence" with a blunt instrument
@e_flux wrote: Writing in Pacific Standard, Melissa Gira Grant details efforts by the UN and NGOs to combat online harassment of women, which the UN has characterized as an epidemic. But as Grant...
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Amelia Jones on diversifying art history
@karenarchey wrote: For the Huffington Post, Jacqueline Bishop writes about art historian Amelia Jones and her longstanding commitment to diversifying art history. Though Jones is largely known as a...
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William Gibson: "I drive people to ask questions, but I don't really have any...
@e_flux wrote: Legendary sci-fi novelist William Gibson talks to Matt Rosoff of Business Insider about Silicon Valley, social media, and his next novel. Gibson is famous for coining the term...
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China Miéville and the politics of surrealism
@karenarchey wrote: Jason Heller gives us a rundown on fantasy fiction author China Miéville's new book, "The Last Days of New Paris" for the New Yorker. The book's premise detonates a bomb on 1950s...
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On the emptiness of narcissism
@e_flux wrote: The website of n+1 has an excerpt from a new book by one of its most compelling regular writers, Kristin Dombek. The Selfishness of Others: An Essay on the Fear of Narcissism examines...
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Using Heidegger to sell flat-screen TVs
@e_flux wrote: In an article for Bloomberg, Drake Bennett writes about the consulting firm Red Associates, which mines the work of such recondite philosophers as Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and...
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Jonny Aspen on zombie urbanism
@karenarchey wrote: It's rare that a useful, non-annoying neologism comes around--particularly one that starts with "zombie"--however Jonny Aspen has coined one that gives a face to a particular breed...
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Slavoj Žižek on Donald Trump
@karenarchey wrote: Speaking at the Left Forum, Slavoj Žižek talks about Donald Trump, racism, morality and Wikileaks. He strangely opens with the admission that "Trump makes him a racist"--not sure...
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What does Black Lives Matter want?
@e_flux wrote: Writing in the Boston Review, social-movement historian Robin D. G. Kelley delves into a rich and detail policy document recently released by the Black Lives Matter movement, “A Vision...
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Astra Taylor on the "anti-democratic urge"
@e_flux wrote: In the wake of the rise of Trump in the US and the Brexit vote in the UK, many in commentariat are declaring that we have too much democracy in the West. The aggrieved working and...
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