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William T. Vollman on post-Soviet Ukraine
@e_flux wrote: In the fall 2016 issue of Bookforum, William T. Vollman reviews two recent books on the volatile history of modern Ukraine: Tim Judah's In Wartime: Stories from Ukraine and Sophie...
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response to Ahmet Öğüt on 7th and 9th Berlin Biennials
@oleksiy_radynski wrote: in his new text for e-flux journal on the 9th berlin biennial, ahmet ogut criticises the 'tactical mistakes' of the biennial's 7th edition from 2012. one of those mistakes,...
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Bankrupt container ship strands artist on residency in Pacific Ocean
@karenarchey wrote: Here's a testimony against "extreme destination residencies," if there ever was one: British artist Rebecca Moss was on a residency on the Hanjin Geneva container ship as the...
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McKenzie Wark on Donna Haraway and naming
@karenarchey wrote: For Public Seminar, McKenzie Wark writes about Donna Haraway's essay "Tentacular Thinking: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene" in the newly released issue of e-flux journal,...
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Chinese documentarian Ai Xiaoming explains how authoritarianism corrupts...
@e_flux wrote: At the blog of the New York Review of Books, Ian Johnson interviews Ai Xiaoming, a prominent Chinese documentary filmmaker and political activist. Ai discusses the difficulties of...
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Against theory, "fake philosophy for non-philosophers"
@e_flux wrote: Writing in the September issue of the Brooklyn Rail, Barbara Carnevali, a professor of philosophy at Science Po in Paris, denounces a certain brand of trendy critical theory that she...
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Henry Heller on the capitalist university
@karenarchey wrote: Pluto Books has excerpted Henry Heller's forthcoming book "The Capitalist University: The Transformations of Higher Education in the United States since 1945." Below, Heller...
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Exploring the transition in Constant's work
@karenarchey wrote: For the New York Times, Nina Siegal writes about Constant Nieuwenhuys, nom de guerre Constant, who is the subject of two Dutch retrospectives. The artist, who went on to work in...
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Making labor visible: An interview with artist Ramiro Gomez
@e_flux wrote: At Public Books, Lawrence Weschler talks with LA artist and former domestic worker Ramiro Gomez, whose collages, cutouts, and paintings aim to make visible the kinds of low-wage...
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Are we returning to an era of great-powers war?
@e_flux wrote: In the September issue of Le Monde diplomatique, Michael T. Klare, professor of world security studies at Hampshire College, asks whether a major war between the US and Russia or China...
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Artists speak out against the male-dominated Prix Ars Electronica
@karenarchey wrote: Screen shot 2016-09-12 at 20.47.06.png893x654 600 KB Upon learning that she received an honorable mentioned in the Ars Electronica "hybrid arts" prize category, artist and...
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Catherine Malabou: "Does deconstruction have a future?"
@e_flux wrote: In the September issue of the Brooklyn Rail, philosopher Catherine Malabou asks how can Derrida's deconstruction can be renewed today. In her effort to formulate an answer, she suggests...
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The future of sex is confusing and frustrating
@e_flux wrote: Writing in the fall 2016 issue of Bookforum, Lidija Haas reviews Future Sex, an essay collection by Emily Witt that explores the promise and peril of sex and dating in the age of Tinder...
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Letter from Ukrainian film-maker Oleg Sentsov smuggled out of prison
@oleksiy_radynski wrote: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/12/oleg-sentsov-jailed-ukrainian-film-maker-letter-siberian-prison-putin Oleg Sentsov’s letter in full: For three years I’ve been...
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Lee Jones on Yanis Varoufakis's "fantasy politics"
@karenarchey wrote: Lee Jones, a reader in international politics at Queens College in London, writes a take-down of former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis's "fantasy" politics. While Jones is...
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Arendt's writing on statelessness is more relevant than ever
@e_flux wrote: Writing for the website Public Seminar, Siobhan Kattago pays homage to a remarkable and nearly forgotten essay by Hannah Arendt called "We Refugees." Originally published in 1943, the...
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Are hipsters and artists the gentrifying foot soldiers of capitalism?
@karenarchey wrote: Theresa May's new digital and culture minister Matt Hancock recently said that "the hipster is a capitalist," and well, who are we to argue? Though the hipster fancies himself a...
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How to constructively engage with modern religious revivalism
@e_flux wrote: At the Boston Review, Avishai Margalit and Assaf Sharon observe that while religious faith has waned in many Western nations over recent decades, other parts of the world—e.g., Latin...
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Franco "Bifo" Berardi on Pokémon GO
@karenarchey wrote: At last, the ideal Pokémon GO thinkpiece, written by Bifo Berardi: In it, mentions of neoliberalism, the movie The Matrix, Jaron Lanier, Californian psychedelic culture, escapism...
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The rise of the gallery-gaming blue chip artist
@karenarchey wrote: For all the news of blue chip "mega-galleries," there is an equal force challenging these new juggernauts: the gallery-gaming artist. Anny Shaw of The Art Newspaper reports that...
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