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Architecture conversations: Tanya Eskander responds to Felicity D. Scott,...
@architecture wrote: ARCHITECTURE CONVERSATIONS: TANYA ESKANDER RESPONDS TO FELICITY D. SCOTT, “LESSER WORLDS” Greater Aspirations Tanya Eskander Cylinder_Exterior_AC75-1085_5728.jpg5728x4187 5.09 MB...
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Chelsea Manning’s existential threat to American innocence
@e_flux wrote: As one of his final acts in office, President Obama commuted the thirty-five-year prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, who will now be released in May of this year. At The Baffler...
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Maika Pollack on Marilyn Minter and corporate feminism
@karenarchey wrote: Marilyn Minter, still from Smash, 2014 Courtesy the artist, Brooklyn Museum, and Salon 94, New York Maika Pollack reviews Marilyn Minter's solo exhibition Pretty/Dirty at the...
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The Netherlands 'counters' Trump with international abortion fund
@karenarchey wrote: Some hope amid this very dark and difficult week witnessing Trump's streak of inhumane executive orders: the Dutch government will organize an international fund to combat Trump's...
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We need Stuart Hall now more than ever
@e_flux wrote: In Public Books, James Vernon reviews a newly published memoir by Stuart Hall, Familiar Stranger: A Life between Two Islands, along with a new collection of Hall's political texts,...
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Ursula K. Le Guin on fantasy
@karenarchey wrote: In June 2004, Ursula K. Le Guin presented a speech on fantasy at the Children’s Literature Breakfast. She spoke about frequent assumptions--or rather, misconceptions--about...
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How did statistics lose their power?
@karenarchey wrote: For the Guardian, William Davies writes about the declining authority of statistics, perhaps heralded in by (or the cause of) our newly "post-truth" era. Read Davies in partial...
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Hito Steyerl and Kate Crawford on stupid AI and the value of comradeship
@e_flux wrote: At the New Inquiry, Kate Crawford chats with Hito Steyerl about automation, “artificial stupidity,” and the value of comradeship. They also touch on how the encroachment of digital...
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Trump's Muslim ban was made possible by Obama and Bush's War on Terror
@e_flux wrote: At the n+1 website, Nikil Saval provides an essential reminder that Trump's appalling executive order intended to ban Muslims from entering the US would not have been possible without...
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On living a feminist life
@e_flux wrote: In the just-released February–March issue of Bookforum, Melissa Gira Grant reviews Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed. Ahmed is a scholar and author of numerous books on feminism and...
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Architecture conversations: David Burns responds to Boris Groys,...
@architecture wrote: ARCHITECTURE CONVERSATIONS: DAVID BURNS RESPONDS TO BORIS GROYS, “SELF-DESIGN, OR PRODUCTIVE NARCISSISM” The Eyes Have It and the Eyes Always Will David Burns...
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Jeremy David Bendik-Keymer: "The Neoliberal Radicals"
@e_flux wrote: inauguration.png975x549 627 KB Considerations open out into the world and into shared life. Brazilian educator and philosopher Paulo Freire said they point to limit situations on which...
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Queer occult vs. "alt-right" occult
@e_flux wrote: At the website The Occulture, Rebekah Sheldon examines the occult elements of the propaganda deployed by the US "alt-right." Rather than treating the occult as a realm of dark freedom,...
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"To defend immigrants is a revolutionary act"
@e_flux wrote: In Viewpoint Magazine, Asad Haider has a fierce and beautiful reportback from the protests again Trump's Muslim ban at San Francisco International Airport last weekend. Haider discusses...
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Architecture conversations: Pierre Shaw responds to Franco "Bifo" Berardi,...
@architecture wrote: ARCHITECTURE CONVERSATIONS: PIERRE SHAW RESPONDS TO FRANCO "BIFO" BERARDI, "ENGINEERING SELF" Eternally New Pierre Shaw Pierre01.jpg2670x3577 5.69 MB "The city as rhythm," Pierre...
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Against civility
@e_flux wrote: At Public Books, Tobias Kelly and Sharika Thiranagama review two books that try to outline a radical form of civility: How Civility Works by Keith J. Bybee and Violence and Civility: On...
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Elizabeth A. Povinelli's Symphony of Late Liberalism in Palestine
@e_flux wrote: Elizabeth A. Povinelli's Symphony of Late Liberalism is a "concept-image" intended to depict the relationship between simultaneous ongoing crises in the governance of markets and the...
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#ALTWOKE MANIFESTO -- Published by ANON, a New York-based collective
@TheNewCentre wrote: zombie-exam02.JPG830x830 336 KB A group of New York-based Left Accelerationists affiliated with The New Centre have published their polemics in a hyperstitionally-titled #AltWoke...
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How did we get here?: From financial crisis to neo-nationalism
@e_flux wrote: In the February 2017 issue of the Brooklyn Rail, Pavlos Roufos offers an intriguing analysis of geopolitical developments from the financial crisis of 2007–08 to the present, arguing...
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"Donald Trump is the singularity"
@e_flux wrote: Writing for Bloomberg, Cathy O'Neil, a mathematician and author of Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, offers and compelling and...
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