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Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh's failed city building experiment
@karenarchey wrote: Adding to the list of West Coast urban housing experiments is Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh's Downtown Project, an urban planning scheme with a start-up twist. Though Hsieh is the...
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If you think your year of 2016 was bad ... Here's the ongoing Brazilian Coup...
@e_flux wrote: The-White-Coup-8-WEB.jpg7753x5391 1.9 MB Artist and activist Daniel Lima has just published an anti-Brazilian Coup manifesto in English, now available to download and print as a flyer,...
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Gregory Sholette responds to Jonathan Jones's fatalist jab at "art strike"
@e_flux wrote: b5c49c6db966c892cc96f76c4c4e41ffb93ba338.jpg800x532 79.1 KB Gregory Sholette, one of the #J20 art strike call’s signatories, responds to Jonathan Jones's article “The ‘art strike’...
View ArticleVideo: Century's Container by Naeem Mohaiemen
@e_flux wrote: The video Century's Container by Naeem Mohaiemen was created for State of Emergency: Politics, Aesthetics, Trumpism, a public forum that took place at New York University on December...
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Zygmunt Bauman on love and the internet
@karenarchey wrote: The renowned Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman died this week in Leeds. Speaking last year with Peter Haffner, here is Bauman speaking about our new hesitance to love, the...
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Is Twitter unusable for anyone but trolls, robots and dictators?
@karenarchey wrote: Or in the case of Trump, a robot-dictator-troll? Lindy West makes a good case for the idea that spending much of our time on Twitter may not be good for our headspace. Read West on...
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A ten-point plan for getting creative work done in the age of Trump
@e_flux wrote: Trump.jpg2048x1365 181 KB The Twitter reaction from Donald Trump and his allies to Meryl Streep's stirring speech at the Golden Globes last weekend demonstrates that the upcoming US...
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Architecture conversations: Georgia White responds to Andrew Herscher,...
@architecture wrote: ARCHITECTURE CONVERSATIONS: GEORGIA WHITE RESPONDS TO ANDREW HERSCHER, "CARDBOARD FOR HUMANITY" Manila’s Tenements and the Humanitarian Impasse Georgia White Residents protesting...
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In financial crisis, the Met delays $600 M contemporary wing expansion
@karenarchey wrote: Robin Pogrebin reports for the New York Times that the Met will delay their anticipated modern and contemporary wing extension, estimated at $600 million. This decision comes as a...
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Apparently emo is making a comeback
@karenarchey wrote: Don't say it was too soon: emo, that kind of embarrassing turn-of-the-millenium blend of punk and sadness that became a definitely embarrassing mainstream sensation in bands like...
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Elizabeth A. Povinelli: "What Do White People Want?: Interest, Desire, and...
@e_flux wrote: This piece 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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Nick Korody on architecture's "exhibitionary complex"
@architecture wrote: 6r9912wyhu3vxbtx.jpg1200x841 721 KB Over at Archinect, Nick Korody writes lucidly about the exploitative dynamics of architecture exhibitions while making the case for a new model...
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Groundbreaking Texan internet art gallery reopens in Pasadena
@karenarchey wrote: In the aughts, as a budding art critic and curator who spent an inordinate amount of time on the internet, I heard bits and pieces about actual, physical galleries that showed...
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The pros and cons of CRISPR and DNA editing
@karenarchey wrote: Michael Specter writes a very long feature on the dangers and virtues of DNA editing, specifically the tool CRISPR, which he writes is "essentially a molecular scalpel." Specter's...
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Why time management is ruining our lives
@e_flux wrote: In The Guardian, Oliver Burkeman surveys the history and empty promises of the time-management industry. Developed in the early twentieth-century to maximize the efficiency—that is, the...
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Emily Apter: "Depreciation and Resistance"
@e_flux wrote: An earlier version of this piece was originally presented by the author at State of Emergency: Politics, Aesthetics, Trumpism, a public forum that took place at New York University on...
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Raymond Williams: "Where We Live Now"
@architecture wrote: Screenshot 2017-01-15 05.10.01.png1280x800 481 KB In Where We Live Now: The Country and the City (1979), British documentarian Raymond Williams analyses images of the country and...
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Architecture conversations: Matteo Mastrandrea responds to Giuliana Bruno,...
@architecture wrote: ARCHITECTURE CONVERSATIONS: MATTEO MASTRANDREA RESPONDS TO GIULIANA BRUNO, "STORAGE SPACE" In Defence of (an-)Arkhē Matteo Mastrandrea 1.jpg1600x761 118 KB Replicant character...
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Pyotr Pavlensky, Russian performance artist accused of rape, seeks asylum in...
@karenarchey wrote: Hromadske International reports that Russian performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky and his partner Oskana Shalygina have allegedly sexually assaulted an actress and on a separate...
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Paul Ryan on painting removed from Capitol teen art contest: "We do have...
@karenarchey wrote: Who says that art is ineffective in times of authoritarianism? Budding artist 18-year-old David Pulphus hit a nerve with Republican lawmakers, as his painting depicting Ferguson,...
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