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Fredric Jameson on the noir literature of Raymond Chandler
@e_flux wrote: To Fredric Jameson, the detective novels of Raymond Chandler are not mere hardboiled entertainment. They rise to the level of literature, on par with Proust and Zola. They do this not...
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Egypt's cultural artifacts endangered by economic crisis
@e_flux wrote: The Lebanon-based Daily Star reports that Egypt's current economic crisis is making it difficult to maintain the country's wealth of cultural artifacts, not to mention excavate for new...
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Scientists move to make the "Anthropocene" official
@e_flux wrote: While scholars from the humanities and arts fiercely debate the merits of the term "Anthropocene," scientists from the International Geological Congress hope to make it their official...
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Unnatural disaster: earthquakes and class
@e_flux wrote: At the New Inquiry, Evan Calder Williams writes about how "natural" disasters like the recent earthquake in Italy reveal the unevenly distributed exposure to death in the society...
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The boom and bust of Qatar's art scene
@e_flux wrote: At the website Quartz, Mikolai Napieralski writes about his surreal three years working for Qatar Museums, the organization charged with transforming Qatar from a small, conservative...
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Hal Foster and Ben Lerner chat about the hatred of painting and poetry
@e_flux wrote: At the Frieze website, Hal Foster and poet Ben Lerner talk about painting, poetry, and the modern proclivity to hate both. In their respective spheres, painting and poetry are...
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Brazillionaires: Wealth, Power, Decadence, and Hope in Brazil
@e_flux wrote: At the Bookforum website, Noah Kulwin reviews the book Brazillionaires Alex Cuadros, which "chronicles the accumulation, entrenchment, maintenance, and expansion of the country’s...
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"Millennials": The history of a pre-packaged marketing term
@e_flux wrote: Writing for the New Republic, Laura Mash recounts the curious history of the overused and abused generational term "millennials." It turns out that the term was coined before most...
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Ursula Le Guin earns a rare honor
@e_flux wrote: The Library of America is a distinguished non-profit publisher that releases handsome hardcover volumes of the major works of important US authors like James Baldwin and Nathaniel...
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Diving into Russia's Deep Web
@e_flux wrote: The liberal Russian news website Meduza has an in-depth report by Daniil Turovsky on the Russian-speaking Deep Web, where users trade everything from drugs to libertarian ideas. The...
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Does terrorism work?
@e_flux wrote: In the London Review of Books, eminent philosopher Thomas Nagel reviews Does Terrorism Work? A History by Richard English, which meticulously examines the history of four major militant...
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Gay life and lit: Then and now
@e_flux wrote: Bookforum has uploaded video of a fascinating panel discussion and reading that recently took place at the legendary Strand Books in New York. Entitled "Gay Life and Lit: Then and Now,"...
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Literature's fascination with homelessness
@e_flux wrote: Writing in The Guardian, Tim Cooke probes English-language literature's perennial fascination with destitution and homeless as sources of artistic inspiration. Perhaps the most famous...
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Is it time to abandon democracy for “epistocracy”?
@e_flux wrote: In the just-released fall issue of Bookforum, Jedediah Purdy reviews Against Democracy by Jason Brennan, in which the author makes a provocative and timely argument: democracy should be...
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Fred Turner weighs in on the accelerationism debate
@e_flux wrote: Fred Turner is a professor of communications at Stanford and author of the canonical text From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network and the Rise of...
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Peter Wolfendale's Brief 8-Point Response to Fred Turner's Critique of...
@DADABASE wrote: 07_905.jpg900x617 250 KB Artwork by Keith Tilford CLICK HERE FOR THE ORIGINAL POST Peter Wolfendale, philosopher and an instructor of the Critical Philosophy Program at The New Centre...
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German V&A chief departs early over Brexit disillusionment
@karenarchey wrote: The Guardian reports that the Martin Roth, the Victoria and Albert Museum's director of five years, will leave his position early due to disillusionment over Brexit "war rhetoric."...
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Silvia Federici: "I don't want to give up the category 'woman'"
@e_flux wrote: In Mask magazine, Hanna Hurr talks with a living legend of radical feminism, Silvia Federici. Author of the groundbreaking book Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive...
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Gamifying the workplace
@e_flux wrote: Writing for Public Books, Caitlin Petre reviews several recent books on an emerging trend in capitalist labor management: "gamifying" the workplace, or in other words, making wage labor...
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Marwa Arsanios in conversation with Anton Vidokle: why does naming something...
@karenarchey wrote: Marwa Arsanios is an artist living in Beirut. She is one of the co-founders of 98weeks research project and a part-time teacher. Here she speaks with e-flux's Anton Vidokle about...
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