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Jedediah Purdy on "the politics of nature in a time of political fear"
@e_flux wrote: At the n+1 website, Jedediah Purdy, a constitutional and environmental lawyer who teaches at Duke University, writes about how "re-encountering" nature can serve to illuminate our...
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Millennials aren't lazy, they're workaholics
@karenarchey wrote: As an older millennial who has worked as an inexhaustible freelancer her entire career, I bristle at the thought that my entire generation is comprised of lazy parent-basement...
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Hal Foster: Père Ubu is President!
@e_flux wrote: picabia-calf worship 3.jpg965x1000 105 KB This text was originally presented by the author at State of Emergency: Politics, Aesthetics, Trumpism, a public forum that took place at New...
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Richard Seymour on "post-truth politics" and the "nocturnal side of reason"
@e_flux wrote: At his blog Lenin's Tomb, Richard Seymour parses the meaning of "post-truth politics," a phrase that has been widely used to describe the era inaugurated by the rise of Donald Trump and...
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Sreshta Rit Premnath: Critique as Unlearning
@e_flux wrote: This text was originally presented by the author at State of Emergency: Politics, Aesthetics, Trumpism, a public forum that took place at New York University on December 10, 2016. Text...
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The War on Syria: Look Away or Wield the Sword
@e_flux wrote: f-vr-a-20150813.jpg3000x1500 1.65 MB 3-D virtual reality footage of the city of Aleppo, Syria released by Ryot, 2015. Photo: CHRISTIAN STEPHEN / RYOT VIA AP Text by Jon Rich In her...
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What does "expat" mean and why does it only apply to white people?
@karenarchey wrote: For the Guardian, Mawuna Remarque Koutonin writes about the term "expatriate," and how it is part of a hierarchy of words to describe people who live in a nation other than the one...
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Mia Mingus on the politics of desirability and the ugly
@karenarchey wrote: I stumbled upon disability rights activist Mia Mingus's speech about moving beyond desirability through a string of Google searches. What she writes below, originally given as a...
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Umberto Eco on Ur-Fascism (1995)
@e_flux wrote: In 1995, Umberto Eco wrote a lengthy article for the New York Review of Books entitled "Ur-Fascism" in which he attempted to outline several culture and political characteristics around...
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On John Berger, 1926–2017
@e_flux wrote: While this website was on holiday hiatus, one of the most brilliant and generous art critics of our era passed away: John Berger, who died at his home outside Paris last weekend at the...
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John Berger on listening
@karenarchey wrote: In the wake of John Berger's death, I came across this profile on him by Kate Kellaway from last October. While it details the ins and outs of Berger's life and upbringing, it also...
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Beat Generation: Where the ladies at?
@karenarchey wrote: The Beat Generation is known for its iconoclasm in pushing the genre of literature, and decades after its impetus it's also quite apparent that it suffered from a staggering lack...
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Building the Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela
@e_flux wrote: Building the Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela (Verso) is the latest book by George Ciccariello-Maher, a professor of politics at Drexel University in Philadelphia. The book...
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David Byrne on not being afraid to fail
@e_flux wrote: Over at The Creative Independent, Brandon Stosuy chats with avant-pop icon, author, artist, cyclist, and all-around fascinating person David Byrne about trying new things and risking...
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Japan's young "genderless" danshi pursue beauty, happiness
@karenarchey wrote: Motoko Rich's New York Times report on Japan's new generation of "genderless" danshi is unexpectedly heartwarming: these young men speak eloquently about their desire to wear...
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Nancy Fraser on "the end of progressive neoliberalism"
@e_flux wrote: In Dissent magazine, Nancy Fraser outlines the opportunities presented by the end of what she call "progressive neoliberalism." She describes the latter as an alliance between...
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The pseudo-politics of liberal white purity
@e_flux wrote: In Viewpoint magazine, Asad Haider examines how white liberals who blame the "identity politics" of left-wing radicals for helping Trump get elected covertly affirm white identity...
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Consumer activism could take down Breitbart News
@karenarchey wrote: Consumer activism is perhaps not usually the most radical of all activisms, but Pagan Kennedy, writing for the New York Times, suggests that in it may lie a way to bringdown the...
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Architecture conversations: Maria S. Giudici responds to Zeynep Çelik...
@architecture wrote: ARCHITECTURE CONVERSATIONS: MARIA S. GIUDICI RESPONDS TO ZEYNEP ÇELIK ALEXANDER, "MASS GESTALTUNG" img 1.jpg3071x1226 702 KB Double tower-distance measurement (1350) and measuring...
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Benj Gerdes: "Antagonism, Not Compromise"
@e_flux wrote: daily_item_letters_gerdes.jpg2917x2754 2.55 MB This piece was originally presented by the author at State of Emergency: Politics, Aesthetics, Trumpism, a public forum that took place at...
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