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Enter the pit of internet trolling subculture
@e_flux wrote: In the London Review of Books, Richard Seymour reviews a handful of books on the sociology and history of internet trolling. As Seymour writes, these book portray trolling subculture as...
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Why liberal rationalism has failed to explain the world we live in now
@e_flux wrote: Writing for The Guardian, Pankaj Mishra examines why liberal rationalism—the worldview of so many Western elites, economists, and talking heads—failed so utterly to anticipate the...
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Italian 17th century proto-feminist painter finally gets her due
@karenarchey wrote: Italian 17th century painter Artemisia Gentileschi, whose work explores themes of female freedom, power and defiance, is the subject of a major retrospective at Rome's Palazzo...
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Masha Gessen on the Putin-Trump connection
@karenarchey wrote: Over the last week, Trump's cabinet nominations have given us an irksome feeling that he indeed has close ties to Russia, if not through obvious business connections then by...
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The Elements of Style: On Robert Bresson
@e_flux wrote: In the December-January issue of Bookforum, Dennis Lim, the director of programming at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, pens an appreciation of Robert Bresson and a review of the...
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Despair and debauchery in Assad's capital
@e_flux wrote: The English-language edition of Der Spiegel has a fascinating and harrowing report from Damascus as Assad's Russian-backed forces seek to crush the remaining rebel resistance in Aleppo....
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Ben Parker on Norwegian black metal
@karenarchey wrote: For n+1, Ben Parker writes about the strange microcosm that is Norwegian black metal, with its murders, dark soundscapes and Tolkien references. Read Parker in partial below, in...
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Eric Foner on American radicalism
@karenarchey wrote: For the Nation, Eric Foner writes about American radicalism, teaching its rich history as a professor at Columbia University, and the change in belief in radical politics among...
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An homage to DIY live-work spaces
@e_flux wrote: In the wake of the tragic Ghost Ship warehouse fire in Oakland, live-work art spaces are undergoing heavy scrutiny, especially in regard to saftey. At the Creative Independent website,...
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What's it like to be an elephant?: Seeing animals for what they are
@e_flux wrote: At Public Books, Matt Margini review a host of books in various genres—including fiction, science writing, and philosophy—that attempt to de-anthropomorphize our view of animals. As...
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Speculating Future: A Syllabus
@e_flux wrote: As part of its current issue on the theme of "Science/Fictions," The New Inquiry has assembled an impressively thorough and radical syllabus on speculative narratives, technological...
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American universities expanding to U.A.E. fail to call out human rights...
@karenarchey wrote: Kristina Bogos reports that American universities such as Georgetown and New York University are expanding to the United Arab Emirates but are ill-equipped to deal effectively with...
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Marilynne Robinson on Barack Obama
@karenarchey wrote: There's something extraordinarily slow and all-encompassing about Marilynne Robinson's writing style--so much so that you're directly transported into her line of thought. Her...
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Who's the real threat to US democracy, Russia or homegrown oligarchy?
@e_flux wrote: At the n+1 website, Sophie Pinkham deconstructs the accusation that Kremlin-backed Russian hackers infiltrated the computer network of the Democratic National Committee with the...
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2K16: the best, the worst, the WTF/LOL!
@MorganQuaintance wrote: s1jc3i.jpg1400x1049 283 KB 2K16. What happened? Was it the annus of opportunists; a somnambulant year shocked into flinching, nerve-wracked awareness by a series of...
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Slime videos are the new ASMR
@karenarchey wrote: Screen shot 2016-12-19 at 15.44.15.png933x615 822 KB I didn't see this coming: videos of fingers poking and prodding homemade slime that cater to Western '90s nostalgia are set to...
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A Lovecraftian novella on the horrors of police violence against African...
@e_flux wrote: At Public Books, Kinohi Nishikawa, a professor of English and African American studies at Princeton, reviews The Ballad of Black Tom, a wildly inventive and political horror novella by...
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Antonio Gramsci, my grandfather
@e_flux wrote: The November–December 2016 issue of New Left Review features a fascinating piece by Antonio Gramsci Jr., the grandson of the Italian communist organic intellectual. On a visit to Russia...
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The fallacy of working your way out of structural adversity
@karenarchey wrote: Screen shot 2016-12-20 at 14.20.55.png941x629 582 KB Gemma Germains, a design entrepreneur, writes for It's Nice That about how privilege gives so many of us in the creative field...
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What is the French left to do?
@e_flux wrote: The next presidential election set to rock the geopolitical status quo will take place in France next spring. Currently, the two leading contenders are a pro-globalization hardline...
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