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How not to talk about poverty
@e_flux wrote: Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, a recently published book by J. D. Vance, has been sparking a lot of discussion in the US lately. By telling his own story...
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The true global warming hot spots
@e_flux wrote: The English-language website of Der Spiegel has provided a map that highlights several areas around the world that have been most impacted by climate change. In his short introduction...
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MoMA has digitized its archive
@karenarchey wrote: For the New York Times, Randy Kennedy writes about MoMA's initiative to digitize its exhibition archive and put it online. This comes as a great boon to researching curators and...
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Nancy Fraser on the "contradictions of capital and care"
@e_flux wrote: In the recently released hundredth issue of New Left Review, Nancy Fraser asks whether the demands of financialized capitalism are terminally undermining the ability of its workers to...
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The folly of militant atheism
@e_flux wrote: In the fall 2016 issue of The Baffler, Sam Kriss takes on contemporary defenders of a particularly dogmatic form of atheism, including Richard Dawkins, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Bill...
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Pete Wells, the reticent critic
@karenarchey wrote: Ian Parker writes a very long and very entertaining profile on the New York Times Food critic Pete Wells. Since taking up his post in 2012, Wells has become the stuff of criticism...
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Joshua Cohen on Trump and the downfall of Atlantic City
@karenarchey wrote: For n+1, Joshua Cohen writes about two very depressive, inter-related things: Atlantic City and Donald Trump (and, by extension, Trump's failures in Atlantic City. Apparently...
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Jenni Olson's experimental doc on California's hidden colonial history
@e_flux wrote: In Pacific Standard, Katie Kilkenny talks to queer filmmaker Jenni Olson about her latest experimental documentary, The Royal Road. The titular road is Highway 101, which runs the...
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What does a truly global history look like?
@e_flux wrote: In the latest issue of Public Books, historian Serge Gruzinski reviews What Is Global History?, an ambitious new book by German historian Sebastian Conrad. As economic and political...
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Jacques Derrida on American attitude
@karenarchey wrote: If I find Derrida a little longwinded does that make me American? According to the man himself, it probably does. Below we find the philosopher talking about directness that...
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Zombie abstraction has officially tanked
@karenarchey wrote: Screen shot 2016-09-19 at 15.33.37.png530x636 697 KB We all knew it was coming: zombie abstraction has tanked, as Bloomberg reports that auction forecasts for "process-based...
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Baz Luhrman’s The Get Down portrays the beginning of the end of late capitalism
@e_flux wrote: Writing in The Nation, poet and theorist Joshua Clover teases out the momentous origins and endings depicted in Baz Luhrman's recent Netflix series The Get Down, which traces the rise...
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"Fanzines in vitrines": The politics of preserving punk culture
@e_flux wrote: At Open Space, the blog of SFMoMA, music journalist Sam Lefebvre examines recent efforts by various museums, universities, and independent collectors to preserve and digitize...
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Gerald Raunig on grassroots municipal movements in Spain
@e_flux wrote: In the web-based multilingual journal transversal, Gerald Raunig reflects on recent grassroots municipal movements in Spain, examining developments in Barcelona, Málaga, and Sevilla....
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What San Francisco says about America
@karenarchey wrote: Screen shot 2016-09-20 at 19.37.40.png999x649 1.04 MB For the New York Times, Thomas Fuller writes about the harsh realities of San Francisco, namely the city's unbridled...
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A tale of two Chomskys: the military-sponsored scientist and the anarchist...
@karenarchey wrote: Screen shot 2016-09-20 at 21.34.55.png846x616 860 KB For The North Star, Chris Knight writes about Noam Chomsky--who he says he loves--and the curious "double life" that he has led...
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James T. Hong on Nietzsche
@karenarchey wrote: James T. Hong speaks to Artforum's Lauren O'Neill Butler about his performance and installation "Nietzsche Reincarnated as a Chinese Woman and Their Shared Lives," currently...
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"The Classist Implications of Life Extension Science"
@e_flux wrote: Writing in Pacific Standard magazine, Rick Paulas examines the ethics of life-extension science in a modern world sharply divided by class. Even absent live-extension technologies, the...
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Is there still a place for pulpy comics in the age of the "graphic novel"?
@e_flux wrote: Comic books have experienced a surprising cultural ascendence in the past decade or so. Thanks in part to "serious" comic works like Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis (2003), Alison...
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A new generation of US writers confronts the nation's lethal racism
@e_flux wrote: In the latest issue of Bookforum, Jabari Asim reviews two books by American writers that grapple with ongoing conflagrations around racism in the US, including police killings of Black...
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