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The myth of white innocence: A takedown of Hillbilly Elegy
@e_flux wrote: In the US, the book Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance has been burning up best-seller lists this year—even before it got an unexpected bump from...
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Three books on what might come after capitalism as we know it
@e_flux wrote: At Public Books, James Livingston, a professor of history at Rutgers University, reviews three very different books that nonetheless all speculate on what might come after capitalism as...
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Oakland fire: It could have been any one of us
@karenarchey wrote: Yesterday, Gabe Meline wrote a response to the media about their characterization of the Oakland Ghost Ship fire as being an inevitable disaster at the hands of irresponsible,...
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After Trump win, Internet Archive to back up data in Canada
@karenarchey wrote: The San Francisco-based Internet Archive, creator of the Wayback Machine, has announced that the organization aims to create a copy of its archive in another country. Due to the...
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The political hope amidst the pervasive political despair of 2016
@e_flux wrote: The year 2016 seems to grow more awful by the day, but in the Boston Review, Ronald Aronson reminds us that it has also been the year of the revival of social hope, primarily in the...
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A people’s history of the Third Reich
@e_flux wrote: At The Baffler website, Megan Carpentier takes the occasion of Trump's election to point out the folly of the Great Man theory of history. The horrific crimes of the Nazi party, she...
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Following international trend, Berlin's Polish Cultural Institute director...
@e_flux wrote: The German newspaper taz reports that Katarzyna Wielga-Skolimowska, director of the Polish Cultural Institute of Berlin, or Polnisches Institut Berlin, has been fired without warning,...
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Noam Chomsky: "The stakes are high"
@e_flux wrote: Hot off the presses, the December 2016 issue of the Brooklyn Rail includes an interview with Noam Chomsky about the US election and the larger rightward tilt of many Western...
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Florian Cramer on the alt-right
@karenarchey wrote: A lecture by Florian Cramer on the alt-right in which he maps all the connections between Breitbart, Trump, 4chan, white supremacist and neo-nazi movements and neo-reactionaries,...
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How to survive a plague...and right-wing backlash
@e_flux wrote: At Real Life, Rachel Giese writes about the affinities and infrastructures that gay communities in cities like New York and Toronto had to build to survive the AIDS crisis of the 1980s...
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Trevor Paglen on the new regime of invisible images
@e_flux wrote: Writing for the New Inquiry, Trevor Paglen examines the far-reaching implications of the fact that "the overwhelming majority of images are now made by machines for other machines, with...
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Architecture against inequality
@e_flux wrote: At the n+1 website, Daniel Brook examines the work of the progressive-minded, Singapore-based architecture firm WOHA (aka Wong Mun Summ and Richard Hassell), along with their building...
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Revived Civil Rights Era play makes black people (and social order) vanish...
@karenarchey wrote: Screen shot 2016-12-09 at 16.55.24.png902x618 789 KB Douglas Turner Ward's play "Day of Absence," premiering in 1965, fantasizes about the chaos that ensues in a small Southern...
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How did spomeniks become clickbait?
@karenarchey wrote: “Spomenik #1 (Podgarić)”. Image: Breese Little Gallery, London Writing for Calvert Journal, Owen Hatherly asks how and why spomeniks, war monuments from the former Yugoslavia, have...
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The complex, contradictory, and revolutionary life of Toussaint Louverture
@e_flux wrote: At the Bookforum website, Joshua Alvarez reviews Toussaint Louverture: A Revolutionary Life, a new biography of the Haitian rebel leader by history professor Philippe Girard. Louverture...
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Sarah Schulman on conflict and abuse within radical communities
@e_flux wrote: In the December 2016 issue of the Brooklyn Rail, Jarrett Earnest talks with queer writer and activist Sarah Schulman about her latest book, Conflict is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm,...
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Self-care as politics or marketing tool?
@karenarchey wrote: Marisa Metzler writes about the recent surge in interested in self-care, both as a political act and a marketing scheme--or perhaps a muddling of booth. She notes that since the...
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Drone regulations highlight limits on atmospheric commons, free speech
@karenarchey wrote: Bradley L Garrett writes about his experience as an amateur drone pilot and the increasingly few remaining legal zones to in which fly drones. Recently manning a drone in London's...
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Zadie Smith on optimism and despair
@karenarchey wrote: Back in November in Berlin, Zadie Smith gave a talk on the occasion of receiving the 2016 Welt Literature Prize. In it, she speaks about what it means to write from optimism or...
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The model-minority myth as asset bubble
@e_flux wrote: At Public Books, Joseph Jonghyun Jeon, a professor of English and Asian American Studies at Pomona College in California, reviews the novel Shelter by Jung Yun. The book tells the story...
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