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Robert Smithson, 'A Provisional Theory of Non-Sites'
@karenarchey wrote: There's a great variety of free essays by and about Robert Smithson on his website. Below is Smithson's brief thoughts on non-sites. Poke around more on Smithson's site here. By...
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Live coverage: In. Practice Symposium at Renaissance Society, Chicago
@karenarchey wrote: zobernig (1).jpg1500x1187 1.08 MB On the occasion of the Renaissance Society's 100th birthday, e-flux conversations will provide live coverage of the Ren's In. Practice symposium...
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Natasha Ginwala on corruption
@e_flux wrote: In the November issue of e-flux journal, Natasha Ginwala reflects on corruption in its many forms, especially political, aesthetic, and environmental. Here's an excerpt: In the...
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Who tends to Captain Picard’s bromeliads?
@karenarchey wrote: TNGCaption57b.jpg694x530 Michael Miles of the LARB writes about popular science fiction, its optimism and post-scarcity societies that know no hunger nor poverty. He ponders an...
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"Growing stupid together": On Western responses to terrorism
@e_flux wrote: At the n+1 website, the ever insightful Pankaj Mishra examines the Western press's bellicose, self-flattering responses to the Paris attacks, which seem to dispense entirely with...
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Exhibition Tour: 'Corruption: Everybody Knows...' at e-flux
@karenarchey wrote: e-flux_corruption_16.jpg1200x800 513 KB Corruption: Everybody Knows…Curated by Natasha GinwalaNovember 11–December 19, 2015 e-flux311 East BroadwayNew York, NY 10002Hours:...
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The illusion of change in China
@e_flux wrote: At the NY Review Daily, Ian Johnson examines the highly touted "reforms"—economic, political, legal—of Chinese president Xi Jinping, which many in the West believed would lead to...
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Orson Welles and the New Queer Cinema
@e_flux wrote: At the LA Review of Books, John Thomason draws a surprising but undeniable parallel between the films of Orson Welles and New Queer Cinema, especially Gus Van Sant's My Own Private...
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Assassinating terrorists does not work
@e_flux wrote: At the website of the Boston Review, Alex de Waal, author and executive director of the World Peace Foundation, questions an anti-terrorist strategy used by governments from Israel to...
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Alternative spaces and the Anthropocene
@e_flux wrote: In response to a questionnaire about art and the climate crisis circulated by the Brooklyn Rail, Gene Moreno suggests that in the age of the Anthropocene, alternative art spaces need to...
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e-flux journal redux: Bilal Khbeiz, 'Los Angeles: The Invention of Public...
@karenarchey wrote: LA.jpeg1920x1200 325 KB *This text was originally published in issue 0 of our sister publication, e-flux journal -- As will be obvious to the reader, the writer of this portrait...
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It's carving time!
@karenarchey wrote: Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at e-flux conversations! We'll see you next Monday. In the mean time, enjoy this handy instructional video from the (1950's) USDA and National...
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On Work and Non-Work, Josh Jones on Bertrand Russell's & Buckminster Fuller's...
@Mladen_Libuschewski wrote: Russell_Fuller.jpg1000x750 336 KB Picture taken from the article. On openculture.com there's an article on the ideology of wage labour and the insistence that it's the only...
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'Superconversations: Machines that Matter' symposium live coverage, 12/11-12/12
@karenarchey wrote: symposium.jpg955x637 151 KB Please join e-flux conversations for coverage of Superconversations: Machines That Matter, a symposium co-organized by e-flux and The New Centre for...
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Chomsky and His Critics
@e_flux wrote: At the Jacobin magazine website, Emanuel Stoakes asks Noam Chomsky to respond to a number criticisms that have been repeatedly leveled against him, including the charge that he...
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Queer kinship in the early writings of Truman Capote
@e_flux wrote: At the LA Review of Books, Eric Newman delves into the early stories of Truman Capote, which were recently unearthed in the archives of the New York Public Library, and which Capote...
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Why Boycott the Zabludowicz Art Trust?
@BDZ wrote: Screen Shot 2015-11-29 at 23.25.09.png1308x1308 2.89 MB In London, the complicity of The Zabludowicz Art Trust (which principally owns and funds the Zabludowicz Collection, Zabludowicz Art...
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New York Times description of Planned Parenthood shooter evolves from...
@karenarchey wrote: You may have noticed how media outlets have reported the recent Planned Parenthood shooting in Colorado Springs quite differently from how terrorist attacks are usually reported....
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Susan Sontag: Critic and crusader
@karenarchey wrote: Steve Wasserman looks back at the life and legacy of Susan Sontag for the LARB. It's a nostalgic with the personal details, but a great read. My favorite paragraph: "She was a...
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Male-Order Brides: Heather Havrilesky on Tucker Max
@karenarchey wrote: Remember Tucker Max? That bro whose books reminisce about every time he got laid blind drunk in a bar and who somehow slimed his way onto the New York Times' bestseller list for "I...
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