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The infinite nostalgia of "Stranger Things"
@karenarchey wrote: Joshua Rothman writes about the references to 1980s horror and adventure genres in Netflix's standout new series Stranger Things. He writes that although the show's references stem...
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Pew study proves very few white social media users post about race
@karenarchey wrote: For Vox, Jenée Desmond-Harris writes about a new Pew Research Center report that sheds light on how we speak about race online--or namely, who and from which race speaks about race...
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Art catalogs keep print alive in the digital era
@e_flux wrote: Writing for the Jacket Copy blog of the LA Times, Carolina A. Miranda traces the resurgent interest in expensive, heavy, lavishly illustrated art catalogues. This trend has been...
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Who killed Gawker?
@karenarchey wrote: Former Gawker Editor-in-Chief Max Read suggests one of five entities killed Gawker, which stops publishing today: himself; Gawker founder Nick Denton; his Gawker-outed arch enemy...
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Wolfgang Streeck: "Order is an exception, not the rule"
@e_flux wrote: The Verso blog has an interview, originally published by Revue de la Régulation, with distinguished German "socio-economist" Wolfgang Streeck. Streeck discusses his intellectual...
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Herzog's new film: A "poetic" exploration of the wonders and horrors of the...
@e_flux wrote: Writing in Motherboard, Alex Pasternack reflects on Werner Herzog's new ten-part, two-hour documentary in the internet, Lo and Behold: Reveries Of A Connected World. In vintage Herzog...
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US Supreme Court to consider legal precedent drawn from a novel
@karenarchey wrote: The good ol' lawmakers in Texas have outdone themselves: in 2004, Judge Cathy Cochran of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals wrote that execution of Lennie Small, the mentally...
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The drone presidency
@karenarchey wrote: David Cole writes about Obama's track record with drone warfare for the New York Review of Books. While Obama is an antiwar president, his record shows a surprising affinity for...
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Being foreign in post-Brexit Britain
@e_flux wrote: Two months after a narrow majority of Britons voted to leave the European Union, Andrea Mammone, an Italian expat living in London, writes in the Boston Review about how the climate has...
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Machine learning is not even close to resembling human intelligence
@e_flux wrote: We are a long way from being enslaved by robot overlords, at least according to Paul Taylor, who has published an article on the history and present of machine learning in the London...
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The mystery of Hieronymous Bosch
@karenarchey wrote: Hieronymous Bosch belongs to the rare breed of timeworn painters who delight and confound both the public and art historians alike. Given that so little is known about Bosch 500...
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Tech CEOs' next frontier: space mining
@karenarchey wrote: Now that we're on the brink of pushing our own earth to the max of its capabilities and resources, the world's finest capitalists are looking to space as their next frontier. While...
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Greece is still spiralling down
@e_flux wrote: It's been a year since Greece accepted its third massive bailout, after left-wing prime minister Alexis Tsipras threatened to defy international lenders but ultimately acquiesced....
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Jared Sexton on the history and development of Afro-Pessimism
@e_flux wrote: Writing in the journal Rhizomes, Jared Sexton, professor of African American Studies at UC Irvine, examines the history, development, and current resistance to Afro-Pessimist thought....
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Burkini designer speaks out against French authorities
@karenarchey wrote: Screen shot 2016-08-25 at 17.54.23.png753x527 426 KB Aheda Zanetti, the designer who invented the burkini, has written an op-ed for the Guardian about how she created the swimsuit...
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Doing philosophy better: Mark de Silva's ambitious novel Square Wave
@e_flux wrote: At the n+1 website, Jeanne-Marie Jackson writes a nuanced and illuminating review of a dizzyingly complex and ambitious new novel, Square Wave by Mark de Silva. Exploring the colonial...
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McKenzie Wark: "Chris Kraus zeroes in on a fatal flaw in high theory"
@e_flux wrote: At Public Seminar, McKenzie Wark surveys the books of Chris Kraus, from her seminal debut I Love Dick to her latest novel, Summer of Hate. You might think that nothing new and...
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New Stabilized Version of the XENOFEMINIST Manifesto Uncovered
@DADABASE wrote: Argos-14-1-e1405890128342.jpg4829x2625 1.81 MB Almost a year after the unveiling of its first version by the Laboria Cuboniks collective, a new and more stable version of the...
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The weirdness of the alt-right
@karenarchey wrote: Dylan Matthews writes for Vox about the internet-sprung, increasingly popular (and worrisome) political philosophy nicknamed "alt-right." Like all political philosophies born on...
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Michael Heizer completes his colossal life’s work
@karenarchey wrote: Screen shot 2016-08-26 at 20.02.06.png824x638 623 KB For the New Yorker, Dana Goodyear writes a profile on Michael Heizer and his quest to finish "City," a decades-in-the-making...
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