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Yanis Varoufakis: Trump proves that political revolution is possible
@karenarchey wrote: The New Statesman interviews former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis on his thoughts about the US presidential election. Like many of the think pieces coming out about...
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Is the US witnessing white nationalism's last stand?
@e_flux wrote: At the progressive news website Counterpunch, Oakland-based poet Ishmael Reed has some words of tentative and much-needed consolation regarding the election of Donald Trump as US...
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Simon Sheikh: "Art After Trump"
@e_flux wrote: Trump sculpture.jpg750x524 113 KB After the terrible results of the US election, and as many are offering great models of resistance, I thought it might also be useful to think about...
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Sven Lütticken: "A Matter of Form"
@e_flux wrote: A Matter of Form: Notes from the 51st State of the USA, aka much of the rest of the world Text by Sven Lütticken Now is the time to discuss form. In art, formal concerns are often...
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On the politics of nostalgia
@e_flux wrote: At the website Public Seminar, psychoanalyst Stacey Novack examines the major role that nostalgia played in the recent US presidential election, not only in Trump's campaign but also in...
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Bilal Khbeiz on Trump’s victory and how he defeated us along the way
@e_flux wrote: Text by Bilal Khbeiz I don’t have much hope left. I’m using the little I have left to communicate the following as succinctly as possible: If we were to really revitalize our democracy,...
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Ajay Kurian on Jordan Wolfson and the universal body
@e_flux wrote: For ArtSpace, Ajay Kurian writes about Jordan Wolfson's sculpture "Colored Sculpture" (2016). Recently shown at David Zwirner in New York, the sculpture attaches a menacing-looking...
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Turkey after Trump
@e_flux wrote: At the blog of the NY Review of Books, journalist Christopher de Bellaigue asses the dire situation in Turkey—months into a repressive "state of emergency" following July's failed...
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Fake news, Facebook, and the rabid right
@e_flux wrote: In a recent New York Times piece entitled "Mark Zuckerberg Is in Denial," Zeynep Tufekci, a scholar who examines how technology impacts politics, shows how pervasive fake news is on...
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Jürgen Habermas on how to derail right-wing populism
@karenarchey wrote: Interviewed by Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik, Jürgen Habermas speaks about authoritarianism, populism, and new alt-right politicians and parties such as Marie Le...
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As AIA pledges to work with Donald Trump, membership recoils
@karenarchey wrote: How quickly some give in. The American Institute of Architects (AIA) released a memo recently stating that, as architects, they were eager and willing to work with Trump to address...
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What was the nerd?: The myth of the bullied white outcast loner
@e_flux wrote: Writing for the web magazine Real Life, Willie Osterweil offers a brilliant analysis of the origin of "the nerd" in US popular culture and society, explaining how nerds have evolved...
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Live Coverage: Avant Museology at the Walker Art Center, day one
@e_flux wrote: Join Erica Love and João Enxuto [@EnxutoLove] on this thread for live responses to today's presentations at the Avant Museology symposium at the Walker Art Center. unnamed.jpg2000x1334...
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Live Coverage: Erica Love and João Enxuto at the final day of Avant Museology...
@e_flux wrote: After a wonderful Sunday of presentations, discussions, and performances at the Walker, covered here, João Enxuto and Erica Love @EnxutoLove will be at it again on this thread for the...
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Is Trump an improvised avatar of the Nixon coalition?
@karenarchey wrote: For The Rag Blog, Mike Davis writes about Trump, zombies, and the specter of Nixon and Pat Buchanan. Read in partial below, in full via The Rag Blog. I finally think I’ve...
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Are we living in an era for women artists?
@karenarchey wrote: Responding to the above headline, and given our current political circumstances in the United States and England, I would have to say no--this is not an era for women artists if...
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Trump, Berlusconi, and the perils of "lesser-evilism"
@e_flux wrote: At the Verso blog, Cinzia Arruzza, professor of philosophy at the New School in New York, addresses the pervasive comparisons made between Donald Trump and Silvio Berlusconi, suggesting...
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Cynthia Carr reviews a new history of AIDS activism
@e_flux wrote: In Bookforum, Cynthia Carr reviews a new and harrowing book on the history of AIDS activism, How to Survive a Plague by David France, who directed a 2012 documentary of the same name....
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Jürgen Habermas: How to pull the ground from under right-wing populism
@e_flux wrote: In a timely and insightful interview, Jürgen Habermas proposes a strategy for neutralizing the right-wing political forces that have recently emerged in Germany, in Europe as a whole,...
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Samuel R. Delany on getting an education
@e_flux wrote: The Creative Independent interviews legendary sci-fi author Samuel R. Delany about the rather scattershot education that led him to be the writer he became. Delany also offers his...
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