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Angela Merkel on internet algorithms and politics
@karenarchey wrote: At a media conference in Munich Tuesday, German chancellor Angela Merkel has called upon internet companies like Google to offer more transparency about their internet algorithms,...
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Is the fetishization of work making us miserable?
@karenarchey wrote: Happy Friday--are you exhausted? Anna Coote writes about the hype of work, workplace exhaustion and its connection to stress-related illnesses. She envisions a workweek that is a...
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Benjamin Kunkel on the US presidential election
@e_flux wrote: Writing for the radical journal Salvage, Benjamin Kunkel analyzes the history, economics, and class politics that have informed the exasperating and depressing US presidential election...
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How do we care? Singapore’s Substation 26 years later
@e_flux wrote: dreamworksP1060053.jpg1000x644 96.6 KB "Dream Works" by Clara Chow in front of "Green Screen" by Atelier Rakyat as part of "Survey: Space, Sharing, Haunting." 2016. All images courtesy...
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Judith Butler on public assembly, precarity and Trump
@karenarchey wrote: Philosopher and philologist Judith Butler speaks with Zeit Online on the occasion of her new book, "Notes Towards a Performative Theory of Assembly," being published in German. The...
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Marina Abramović on her celebrity and critics
@karenarchey wrote: If you're not totally sick of the Marina Abramović news cycle, check out Carl Swanson's excellent profile of the performance artist for The Cut. Swanson spent a number of days with...
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Zadie Smith on dance, writing and Beyoncé
@karenarchey wrote: For the Guardian, author Zadie Smith writes about her relationship to dance, and the many inspirational forms it takes, from Frenchmens' butts bouncing to the top of the High Line...
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Philip Guston, Philip Roth, and their Nixon satire
@karenarchey wrote: Screen shot 2016-11-01 at 17.39.31.png820x616 481 KB After last week's revelations about the US presidential candidates, none of us probably want to read very much about...
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is late capitalism’s safe deposit box
@e_flux wrote: In the journal Blind Field, Maya Weeks weaves together personal reflection and geopolitical analysis to tell a story about her journey to the northern reaches of Norway, where debris...
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Is black male sexuality the last taboo?
@karenarchey wrote: For New York Times Magazine, Wesley Morris writes about black male sexuality, specifically the black penis and its representation in Hollywood as largely predatory. Morris notes...
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Chinese is now easier to type than Latin script
@karenarchey wrote: Despite the hulking, cumbersome beginnings of the Chinese typewriter, inputting Chinese into computers is today easier than its Latin language counterparts. As Sarah Zhang of the...
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Russia and the US: The new politics of conspiracy
@e_flux wrote: Writing for the blog of the New York Review of Books, Masha Gessen examines the repeated allegations that Donald Trump has a secret connection to the Russian government and that Russia...
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Ai Weiwei: "I'm an artist, not a priest"
@karenarchey wrote: A panel discussion between artists Tania Bruguera and Ai Weiwei seemed to highlight Ai's, um, theatrical side, according to the Daily Beast. While Bruguera was going about her...
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"Economic migrants" are refugees too
@e_flux wrote: While they may have faded from the headlines, the perilous mass migrations from Africa and the Middle East to Europe have continued apace. Earlier this week, two shipwrecks off the...
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Where's the fiction about climate change?
@karenarchey wrote: For the Guardian, Amitav Ghosh writes about climate change in literary fiction; namely, the dearth of it. When fiction does bring up climate change, Ghosh writes, it is often...
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Oldest Turkish daily newspaper purged by government
@karenarchey wrote: The Economist reports that Cumhuriyet or "Republic," Turkey's oldest daily newspaper and one of the last remaining non-government loyalist media outlets in the country, has been...
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China Miéville on 500 years of More's 'Utopia'
@karenarchey wrote: Science fiction author China Miéville writes about Thomas More's (1478-1535) "Utopia," published in 1516, and the impact it has had over the last 500 years. He quotes other authors...
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Right wing media believes Marina Abramović cooked the Podestas a Satanic meal
@karenarchey wrote: You can't make this stuff up! So, apparently far-right media outlets, Fox News's Hannity and the Drudge Report, believe that a leaked email from Wikileaks proves that occultist...
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The Bronx's only general-interest bookstore is closing
@karenarchey wrote: Andrew Boryga writes for the New Yorker about the closure of the Bronx's only general interest bookstore. The Bronx Barnes and Noble was originally lobbied for by a Bronx...
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Standing Rock and the US presidential election
@e_flux wrote: While the US media brings us wall-to-wall coverage of the imminent presidential election, comparatively little coverage has been devoted to a months-long protest led by the Standing...
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