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Nobody captures the "unparalleled shittiness of our times" better than writer...
@e_flux wrote: Antoine Volodine is a prolific and perplexing French writer who, according to Ben Ehrenreich in The Nation, captures the madness and political despair of our times better than almost...
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Ulay awarded €250,000 in back royalties from Marina Abramović by Dutch court
@karenarchey wrote: Ben Quinn and Noah Charney report for the Guardian that a Dutch court has ordered performance art doyenne Marina Abramović to pay her former collaborator and partner Ulay, aka...
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Tyler Coburn: Live Response to Franco “Bifo” Berardi's lecture “And:...
@kaye wrote: Join us at e-flux on Friday, September 30 at 7:30pm EST for the lecture “And: Phenomenology of the End,” by Franco “Bifo” Berardi. On this very thread, Tyler Coburn (@tylercoburn) will...
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The art and style of Greg Tate
@karenarchey wrote: For the New Yorker, Hua Hsu write about the writer Greg Tate. A critic for the Village Voice in its 1990s heyday, Tate published several collections with paragraphs that to Hsu...
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Three independent publishers worth your time (and money)
@e_flux wrote: On the heels of the NY Art Books fair, Dan Fox at the Frieze blog profiles three small presses doing interesting things with the freedoms and constraints of indy publishing. Fox...
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New African American museum in Washington, DC "is at once triumphant and...
@e_flux wrote: Writing in The Atlantic, Vann R. Newkirk II has an eloquent and moving account of his visit to the new National Museum of African American History and Culture, which recently opened in...
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Trailer released for new Adam Curtis film "HyperNormalisation"
@karenarchey wrote: Filmmaker Adam Curtis is at it again. His new film, "HyperNormalisation," will be released via BBC next month. Like his 2014 film "Oh Dear-ism and Non-Linear War,"...
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What do we see when we look at travel photography?
@karenarchey wrote: Gideon Lewis-Kraus writes for the New York Times about travel, specifically tourism, and our propensity as travelers to document our experiences in images--specifically, the...
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Claudia Rankine to found the "Racial Imaginary Institute"
@e_flux wrote: Rankine.jpg850x478 66.9 KB As Carolyn Kellogg reports in the LA Times, poet Claudia Rankine, best known for her 2014 book Citizen, has won a MacArthur "genius" grant and will be using...
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The Battle of Algiers at 50
@e_flux wrote: Fifty years ago this month, Gillo Pontecorvo released his masterful and incendiary film Battle of Algiers. Since then the film has become canonical, treated to countless art-house...
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Renowned Inuit artist Annie Pootoogook found dead in Ottawa under suspicious...
@karenarchey wrote: CBC News has reported that the renowned Inuit artist Annie Pootoogook has died under suspicious circumstances in Ottawa, her body being found in the city's Rideau River. Pootoogook...
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Amy De'Ath on Bhanu Kapil's "Ban en Banlieue"
@karenarchey wrote: For Mute, Amy De'Ath writes about feminist poetry and Marxism, specifically their integration in Bhanu Kapil’s Ban en Banlieue. Read De'Ath in partial below, in full via Mute. The...
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Syrian poet Adonis: “Arab poetry has always been against God”
@e_flux wrote: In the Lebanese newspaper the Daily Star, distinguished Syrian poet Adonis reflects on poetry, religious fanaticism, and the conflict that is tearing apart his home country. Among other...
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On the trail of African migrant smugglers
@e_flux wrote: Der Spiegel's English-language website has a detailed investigative report on the lucrative migrant-smuggling business in Africa. The report uncovers key smuggling routes from East...
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Google digests 11,000 novels to improve AI conversation
@karenarchey wrote: Richard Lea reports for the Guardian that Google has fed its AI program, Google Brain, 11,000 novels in order the improve the quality of its conversation. Unfortunately, Google...
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McKenzie Wark on Chantal Mouffe and liberal democracy
@karenarchey wrote: For Public Seminar, McKenzie Wark writes about Chantal Mouffe's political theory and "demos," and how increasingly relevant Mouffe is in light of Brexit and Trump neo-fascist...
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Resisting the commodification of motherhood and domesticity
@e_flux wrote: Writing for he new-ish journal Blind Field, Debra Thimmesch gives a historical account of how the supposedly inviolable sphere of motherhood and domesticity was thoroughly commodified...
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Who cares about American power?
@e_flux wrote: At Public Books, Alex Cacioppo examines the curious reaction among the left-leaning US litterati to Noam Chomsky's new book, Who Rules the World?, about the persistence of US political...
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Wendy Vogel on Karin Schneider
@karenarchey wrote: Writing for Bomb, critic Wendy Vogel hits on something that too often goes ignored: the hypocritical but well-intentioned pseudo-Marxist political peacocking in a Upper East Side...
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The world's first AI-composed song sounds a lot like indie rock
@karenarchey wrote: Sony's CSL Research Lab has released the first-ever AI-written song, composed by a program named Flow Machines. The song, composed in the style of The Beatles, sounds an awful lot...
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