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Art's economic exceptionalism
@e_flux wrote: In Mute magazine, Josefine Wikström reviews the book Art and Value: Art’s Exceptionalism in Classical, Neoclassical and Marxist Economics by Dave Beech. Contrary to much theoretical...
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Thought Laid Bare: Notebooks by Artists and Writers
@e_flux wrote: At the Bookforum website, artist Richard Kraft recommends several artists notebooks that have been published in book form, writing that "looking through the notebook of an artist or...
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What is becoming of Deleuze?: On transcendental empiricism today
@e_flux wrote: Earlier this week, we mentioned that the LA Review of Books had convened a virtual symposium on Deleuze to mark the twentieth anniversary of the philosopher's death. Several...
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e-flux journal redux: Raqs Media Collective, 'Stammer, Mumble, Sweat, Scrawl,...
@karenarchey wrote: This essay was originally published in our sister publication e-flux journal issue 0, November 2008 To be legible is to be readable. To be legible is to be an entry in a ledger—one...
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Exhibition Tour: 'Jared Bark: Photobooth Works, 1969-1976' at Southfirst
@karenarchey wrote: Jared BarkUntitled (JBARK PB 1024), 1973Silver gelatin prints7 15/16 x 12 ½” Jared Bark: Photobooth Works, 1969-1976September 26 – November 15, 2015 Southfirst60 North 6th...
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Judith Butler: precariousness and grievability—when is life grievable?
@karenarchey wrote: Verso published these thoughts from Judith Butler's 2009 book "Frames of War: When is Life Grievable?" on the occasion of the Paris attacks. Read the full version here....
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Chus Martínez on raising kids in the art world
@karenarchey wrote: Over at Spike Art Daily, Timo Feldhaus has been interviewing artists and curators about rearing children in the art world. Curator Chus Martínez talks about the difference between...
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Can art be used to resist gentrification rather than accelerate it?
@e_flux wrote: In 2012 artists, squatters, and low-income residents of San Francisco's rapidly gentrifying Mid-Market neighborhood organized a five-week art exhibition and grassroots festival called...
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Death Wall: Extinction, Entropy, Singularity
@e_flux wrote: In a piece from the November issue of e-flux journal entitled "Death Wall: Extinction, Entropy, Singularity," Ana Teixeira Pinto argues that considerations of class and politics are...
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Lloyd Wise on Tabor Robak and medium specificity
@karenarchey wrote: In the November issue of Artforum, Lloyd Wise considers artist Tabor Robak work. According to Wise, Robak, who is known for his multi-screen installations of CGI videos reminiscent...
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The greatness of William Blake
@karenarchey wrote: For the December issue of the New York Review of Books, Richard Holmes writes about Leo Damrosch’s new biography on William Blake, Eternity’s Sunrise, which takes a new look at the...
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A surreal dispatch from a recent Christie's auction
@e_flux wrote: At the blog of The Baffler, J. C. Hallman files a surreal report from a recent Christie's auction that included the sale of Gauguin’s Thérèse to a Chinese billionaire for $170 million....
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The war ISIS wants
@e_flux wrote: In an article that has circulated widely this week, Scott Atran and Nafees Hamid argue that an aggressive military response is precisely what ISIS was hoping to provoke with their...
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Hal Foster: Bad New Days
@karenarchey wrote: Since Hal Foster's book "Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency" came out this September, critics have been buzzing about how solid it is. Foster's appearance at the Kitchen...
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Ana Teixeira Pinto on Martha Rosler and documenting gentrification
@karenarchey wrote: Fresh on the frieze d/e blog is Ana Teixeira Pinto on Martha Rosler's new(ish) work "Greenpoint New Fronts" (2015) and "Greenpoint Project" (2011). Through interviews with locals...
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Was Marx a dancer?
@e_flux wrote: In the November issue of e-flux journal, David Riff traces the motif of dancing throughout Marx's work, from his youthful poetry to his groundbreaking text “The Eighteenth Brumaire of...
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The banality of Michel Houellebecq
@e_flux wrote: At Public Books, Judith Surkis reviews Michel Houellebecq's newly translated novel Submission. Rather than a shrewd social critic, as some have called him, Houellebecq is dull and...
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Gilbert Achcar on France's "state of exception"
@e_flux wrote: At the Jacobin magazine website, Gilbert Achcar warns that in its declaration of war after last week's attacks in Paris, the French government is following the same dubious path the US...
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On the "border-industrial-complex"
@e_flux wrote: The New Inquiry has an eye-opening interview with Angela Mitropoulos, a Sydney-based academic and theorist who studies Australia’s "border-industrial-complex" (BIC), the assemblage of...
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T. J. Clark on Goya's portraits
@e_flux wrote: In the current issue of the London Review of Books, T. J. Clark assess the portraiture of Goya, suggesting that his portraits evoke an "unreality" that is a "form of truth-telling."...
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