Simon Critchley on election-eve "Brexistential dread"
@e_flux wrote: Writing for The Stone, the philosophy blog of the New York Times, Simon Critchley coins the phrase "Brexistential dread" to described the anxious mood felt the world over in advance of...
View ArticleIs social media geotagging ruining parks?
@karenarchey wrote: For The Ringer, Molly McHugh writes about geotagging natural phenomena on social media platforms like Instagram, and this builds hype for these locations, which in turn become...
View ArticleThe geological strata of the Anthropocene
@karenarchey wrote: Screen shot 2016-11-08 at 17.19.58.png1118x626 694 KB Stephen Graham has written an interesting text about the making of geological strata, namely, how the Anthropocene is changing...
View ArticleWhat is the "world" in "world literature"?
@e_flux wrote: In Public Books, literary scholar Caroline Levine reviews two new books that strive in different ways to define the concept of a "world" as used in humanities scholarship: What Is a...
View ArticleUndocumented on election night
@e_flux wrote: At the n+1 website, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio has a moving and important piece on what it's like to be an undocumented immigrant in the US watching the presidential election results...
View ArticleDavid Remnick on Trump and American tragedy
@karenarchey wrote: For those of us in disbelief, without words, here is New Yorker editor David Remnick on reacting to Trump. Read in full via the New Yorker. The election of Donald Trump to the...
View ArticleLive Coverage: Avant Museology at the Brooklyn Museum, Day One
@e_flux wrote: Join Tyler Coburn [@tylercoburn] on this thread for live responses to Friday evening’s presentations during the Avant Museology symposium at the Brooklyn Museum....
View ArticleLive Coverage: Avant Museology at the Brooklyn Museum, Day Two
@e_flux wrote: Join Erica Love and João Enxuto [@EnxutoLove] on this thread for live responses to Saturday’s presentations during the Avant Museology symposium at the Brooklyn Museum....
View ArticleJack Halberstam: "It's winter in America"
@e_flux wrote: The post-election analyses and laments are rolling in, some more cogent and illuminating than other. Among the better pieces is Jack Halberstam's "Winter in America," named after a poem...
View ArticleLive Coverage: Platform Cooperativism: Building the Cooperative Internet,...
@Hxatekin wrote: conf-ad16.png500x655 54.7 KB Platform Cooperativism: Building the Cooperative Internet, will take place November 11-13 (2016) at The New School and Civic Hall in New York. Select...
View ArticleRoxane Gay on the audacity of hopelessness
@karenarchey wrote: The New York Times asked a few writers about their thoughts on the election soon after results poured in. My favorite is from the author Roxane Gay, who so often has reassuring...
View ArticleFranco "Bifo" Berardi on national workerism and racial warfare
@karenarchey wrote: Bifo Berardi also writes about understanding the results of the US Presidential Election for Diem25. He places the failure of Hillary Clinton and more broad white working class...
View ArticleRules for surviving the coming autocracy
@e_flux wrote: Writing for the blog of the New York Review of Books, Masha Gessen—who has ample personal experience in these matters—offers six rules for living under the coming autocracy of President...
View ArticleWhat it was like as the only black journalist who covered Trump
@e_flux wrote: Candace Smith, a reporter for ABC News, had the unenviable task of being the only black reporter assigned to cover Donald Trump's presidential campaign. At the ABC News website, she...
View ArticleRosi Braidotti: DON’T AGONIZE, ORGANIZE!
@e_flux wrote: Text by Rosi Braidotti “Think we must,” wrote Virginia Woolf in Three Guineas, “Let us never cease from thinking – what is this ‘civilization’ in which we find ourselves? What are these...
View ArticleRebecca Solnit on what it took to beat Clinton
@karenarchey wrote: Author Rebecca Solnit has some clear insight about what it took to beat Clinton. In short, voter suppression, the decade-long positive framing of a xenophobe by reality TV,...
View ArticleWhat can feminists do now?
@e_flux wrote: On its website, n+1 has published a series of reactions to the US presidential election written by its editors and contributors. Among them is a piece by Dayna Tortorici which asks...
View ArticleSara Ahmed on fascism as love
@e_flux wrote: At her blog feministkilljoys, radical feminist scholar Sara Ahmed has republished a piece she wrote over a decade ago that has gained new relevance over the past week. Entitled "Fascism...
View ArticleAhmet Öğüt and Hito Steyerl: "Reality is Under Attack"
@e_flux wrote: By Ahmet Öğüt and Hito Steyerl Visuals by Nilbar Güreş “The Solution” After the uprising of the 17th of JuneThe Secretary of the Writers’ UnionHad leaflets distributed in the...
View ArticleHarriet Baker interviews Anthea Hamilton
@karenarchey wrote: Screen shot 2016-11-15 at 13.55.08.png597x598 206 KB For the Financial Times, Harriet Baker interviews Turner Prize nominee Anthea Hamilton. Hamilton came to prominence in the US...
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