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Andrew Stefan Weiner: "Trumpism and/as Violence"
@e_flux wrote: Trump13-1020x651.jpg1019x651 128 KB This piece was originally presented by the author at State of Emergency: Politics, Aesthetics, Trumpism, a public forum that took place at New York...
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The fiction of bohemian NYC
@e_flux wrote: At Public Books, Sara Marcus reviews three novels set in New York City in three different celebrated bohemian periods: Cecil Dreeme by Theodore Winthrop, originally published in 1861...
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Counter-inauguration speakout at Whitney Museum: Videos and texts, part 3
@e_flux wrote: Beyond Reactionism: What is the deeper and continued work of anti-Fascism? This is the third segment of statements read at the antifascist speakout at the Whitney Museum on January 20,...
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Why facts don't change our minds
@e_flux wrote: Writing in the New Yorker, Elizabeth Kolbert examines three recent scholarly books that try to explain common examples of irrational human behavior—such as "confirmation bias"—and she...
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Counter-inauguration speakout at Whitney Museum: Videos and texts, part 4
@e_flux wrote: What is the Art Practice of Resistance? “Art is here to prove and to help one bear the fact that all safety is an illusion.”—James Baldwin This is the fourth segment of statements read...
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Undoing Islamophobia
@e_flux wrote: At The Baffler website, Hussein Ibish makes a counterintuitive but compelling claim: while the recent resurgence of Islamophobia in the US is a frightening development, it also...
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Automation, then and now
@e_flux wrote: In the just-released March issue of the Brooklyn Rail, Jason E. Smith compares twentieth-century waves of automation to the new wave of automation that seems to be engulfing the global...
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The return of the Evergreen Review
@e_flux wrote: The Evergreen Review, which was originally published between 1957 and 1973, was a legendary magazine in the English-language literary underground. It featured writers like Samuel...
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The case for the Women’s Strike
@e_flux wrote: At the n+1 website, Dayna Tortorici makes the case for why US women should participate in the upcoming global Women's Strike, scheduled for March 8, which is International Women’s Day....
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Interview with brother of Geert Wilders: "He peddles illusions to people"
@e_flux wrote: Der Spiegel talks to Paul Wilders, the brother of far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders. Paul reveals that his brother was a centrist at the beginning of his political career, but...
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Masha Gessen: "Russia: The Conspiracy Trap"
@e_flux wrote: At the website of the New York Review of Books, Masha Gessen cautions against focussing excessively on the almost daily leaks that suggest a connection between the Trump campaign and...
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John Hulsey: "Civil Resistance and Its Discontents"
@e_flux wrote: yemenibodegas_DSC5557.jpg1575x1051 345 KB by John Hulsey One of the greatest problems of history is that the concepts of love and power are usually contrasted as polar opposites … What...
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Reclaiming the radical roots of International Women's Day
@e_flux wrote: At Fusion, Katie McDonough reclaims the origins of International Women's Day from "lean-in" feminists and corporate marketing campaigns that have blunted its radical edge. She tells the...
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Thomas Frank: "The revolution will not be curated"
@e_flux wrote: In The Baffler, Thomas Frank traces the transformation of "curating" from a specific role in the art industry to a catch-all prestige term for anyone—from chefs to editors to university...
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The forgotten pleasure of image scarcity
@e_flux wrote: At Real Life, Phoebe Boatwright compares the image-saturated culture of the US and other developed countries to image culture in Cuba, where access to the internet—and thus to an ocean...
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Live Coverage: "Planetary Records: Performing Justice Between Art and Law" at...
@e_flux wrote: 17126855_1290528967706585_2443136041171812352_n.jpg640x640 38.7 KB Planetary Records: Performing Justice Between Art and Law Opening Weekend Public Programme / DAI Roaming Assembly #12...
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The power of bilingualism: Interview with Barbara Cassin, French philosopher...
@e_flux wrote: Barbara Cassin is a distinguished French philosopher and philologist who was awarded the Grand prix de philosophie by the Académie Française in 2012. The interview below is a companion...
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New forms of worker resistance in the gig economy
@e_flux wrote: In Mute magazine, Jamie Woodcock compares modern-day call centers to "gig economy" company's like Uber, tracing recent developments in labor discipline and workplace surveillance. He...
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Perry Anderson on the prospects for a renewal of US radicalism under Trump
@e_flux wrote: The newest issue of the New Left Review contains a series of articles reflecting on the geopolitical consequences of Trump's election in the US. Although many, many publications have...
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Éditions Barzakh uses literature to explore postcolonial Algeria
@e_flux wrote: In The Nation, Alice Kaplan tells the story of Éditions Barzakh, a remarkable Algerian publishing house started in 2000. Releasing mainly fiction and poetry, Éditions Barzakh has sought...
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