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René Magritte on bourgeois art and the Communist Party
@e_flux wrote: The University of Minnesota Press recently published the first English-language collection of writings by René Magritte. Entitled, appropriately enough, René Magritte: Selected...
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Was deconstruction an American creation?
@e_flux wrote: In the Boston Review, Gregory Jones-Katz argues that despite its association with French theory—and with the towering figure of Jacques Derrida—deconstruction as a reading practice was...
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CAM St. Louis chief curator resigns amid Kelley Walker controversy
@karenarchey wrote: The St. Louis American reports that Jeffrey Uslip, chief curator of the Contemporary Arts Museum in St. Louis, has resigned from his post following widespread upset over the...
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The curious Cold War origins of Tetris
@e_flux wrote: At the Bookforum website, Fred Benenson reviews The Tetris Effect: The Game That Hypnotized the World by Dan Ackerman, which tells the surprising origin story of the first truly...
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The dismantling of Calais and the hypocrisy of Fortress Europe
@e_flux wrote: In May of this year, the sprawling refugee and migrant camp in Calais, on the French side of the tunnel between the UK and France, was raided by police, evicting over half of the...
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Against the novel
@e_flux wrote: In the Irish Times, short-story writer Joanna Walsh decries the blandly conventional form and subject matter of most contemporary English-language novels. Novelists today, she writes,...
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Why did Colombians reject the historic peace deal with FARC rebels?
@e_flux wrote: Earlier this year, after four years of complex negotiations, the Colombian government and FARC rebels agreed on a historic peace deal. The rebels would gradually hand over their...
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New dept of education rules force data journalists to approve research with...
@karenarchey wrote: In an effort likely to shut down government policy scrutiny in the UK, academics and journalists will now have to submit their research to the British government for approval when...
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Rebecca Solnit on regendering New York streets and monuments
@karenarchey wrote: Screen shot 2016-10-13 at 13.22.08.png1073x698 844 KB A renewed popular interest in identity politics has meant for many that institutional sexism and racism have never before been...
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Turkey: art in troubled times
@karenarchey wrote: For Index on Censorship, Asena Günal writes about practicing as an artist today in Turkey amid a time of political unrest. She writes about president Erdoğan's oppression of...
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The luxury market in EU citizenship
@e_flux wrote: In the Boston Review, Max Holleran writes about Southern European countries like Malta that sell citizenship to wealthy foreign individuals. This practice of "citizenship-by-investment"...
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How a facial recognition mismatch can ruin your life
@e_flux wrote: Writing in The Intercept, Ava Kofman tells the harrowing story of Steve Talley, who was mistaken for a man who robbed multiple banks in Colorado. Law-enforcement officials used facial...
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Marlie Mul on Rosa Bonheur
@e_flux wrote: Text by Marlie Mul I first came across the 19th Century French painter Rosa Bonheur while preparing the exhibition I co-curated at Kunstverein München together with Judith Hopf. Bonheur...
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Brutalism is back
@karenarchey wrote: Screen shot 2016-10-17 at 18.53.26.png501x648 326 KB Nikil Saval waxes lyrical about the resurgence of interest in Brutalism in T Magazine. He notes that Brutalism--those post-war...
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Frédéric Lordon: The European Union must be dismantled in the interest of...
@e_flux wrote: In the wake of the shocking Brexit vote, some left-wing forces across continental Europe have called for a "re-democratization" of the European Union in order to avoid a similar outcome...
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"Anthropocene and Empire"
@e_flux wrote: In Public Books, Stacey Balkan reviews The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh. Ghosh is best known as a novelist, but The Great Derangement is a...
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On the lives of the Frankfurt School
@e_flux wrote: In the Irish Times, Andrew Gallix reviews Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School by Stuart Jeffries, a book that goes behind the daunting intellectual facade of figures...
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England to stop offering advanced placement exams for art history
@karenarchey wrote: Screen shot 2016-10-18 at 19.53.26.png1153x668 993 KB For the Guardian, Maev Kennedy reports that England will stop offering A-level (or advanced placement) exams in art history,...
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Interview with Mladen Dolar: "I think to make art is to make a break"
@karenarchey wrote: Slovenian philosopher Mladen Dolar, co-founder of the Ljubljana school of psychoanalysis with Slavoj Žižek, Alenka Zupančič and Rastko Močnik, speaks together with Conny Habbel in...
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The alt-right's fear of a feminist future
@e_flux wrote: At The Baffler, Laurie Penny asks why the macho Right is so afraid of feminist visions of the future, as imagined in sci-fi works by authors such as Octavia Butler and Ursula Le Guin....
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