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Situationism's failure to confront race and colonialism
@e_flux wrote: In Salvage magazine, Andrea Gibbons writes about Abdelhafid Khatib of the Algerian section of the Situationist International, who was one of the few people of color involved in the...
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America's refugee debt
@e_flux wrote: At the Boston Review website, Aziz Z. Huq argues that US actions in Syria have endangered civilians far more than is generally recognized, and therefore the US should accept many more...
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"The raunchy, brainy film writings of Boyd McDonald"
@e_flux wrote: In Bookforum, Melissa Anderson raves about a newly published collection of film writings by Boyd McDonald, an under-recognized critic who penned brilliant, sexually brash reviews for...
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Richard Serra: Why make art?
@karenarchey wrote: In a 2011 video by SFMoMA, Richard Serra is asked an unanswerable question: Why make art? He says, "You probably see the world in ways you would not have seen it if those artists...
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e-flux journal redux: Metahaven, 'Brand States: Postmodern Power, Democratic...
@karenarchey wrote: *This text was originally published in issue 1 of our sister publication "e-flux journal." In the New Europe A rainy autumn day in Tallinn at 10 am. Between twenty and thirty...
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Cuba: The Fading of a Subcontinental Dream
@e_flux wrote: The December issue of e-flux journal has just gone live. Guest-edited by Coco Fusco, the issue focuses on the state of art and politics in Cuba, and features several translated pieces...
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e-flux journal redux: Carol Yinghua Lu, 'Accidental Conceptualism'
@karenarchey wrote: *This text was originally published in issue 1 of our sister publication "e-flux journal." In China, pragmatism has ruled society for a long time and as a consequence anything...
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Cinema, perspectivism, and wonder
@e_flux wrote: Public Books has an excerpt from Reel World: An Anthropology of Creation, a refreshingly original book on cinema and seeing by Anand Pandian, a professor of anthropology at Johns...
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A brief history of ISIS
@e_flux wrote: At Jacobin, Adam Hanieh gives an account of the rise of ISIS, suggesting that the group emerged out of the thwarted revolts of the Arab Spring. Check out an excerpt below and the full...
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Holland Cotter on 'Corruption: Everybody Knows...'
@karenarchey wrote: Holland Cotter reviewed our exhibition, curated by Natasha Ginwala, "Corruption: Everybody Knows..." in the New York Times today! He has many nice things to say about e-flux in...
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What to do about unpaid internships?
@karenarchey wrote: Chloe Stead, an editorial intern at Spike Art Quarterly, has written a text about unpaid internships in the art world, their legality, and the many ways in which institutions and...
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NY Times surprisingly open-minded about gender-neutral terms
@e_flux wrote: In a recent article about the great radical bookstore Bluestockings in New York, a NY Times journalist used the gender-neutral courtesy term "Mx." rather than "Mrs." or "Mr." The Times...
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The role of culture in Syria’s struggle
@e_flux wrote: The New Inquiry has an interview with Yassin al-Haj Saleh, a Syrian writer, intellectual, and former political prisoner who has lived in exile in Istanbul for the past two years. Among...
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"Occupy: Three Inquiries in Disobedience" - Reviewed by Ryan Watson
@Mladen_Libuschewski wrote: At InVisible Culture there is a review by Ryan Watson on the book "Occupy: Three Inquiries in Disobedience" that consists of three different views on the Occupy movement....
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Joan Didion on self-respect
@karenarchey wrote: Happy Monday, especially to those of you fresh back from what sounds like the most rainy Art Basel Miami Beach ever. Here's Joan Didion on self-respect to start your week. Excerpt...
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The Putinization of Cuban Art
@e_flux wrote: In the December issue of e-flux journal, whose theme is "Cuba: The Fading of a Subcontinental Dream,” Antonio José Ponte reflects on this year's 12th Havana Biennial and what it...
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Naomi Klein on taking climate change seriously
@e_flux wrote: Jacobin magazine interviews Naomi Klein from the COP21 climate talks in Paris, where protests have been banned and an official state of emergency continues in the aftermath of the...
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e-flux journal redux: Jan Verwoert, 'The Boss: On the Unresolved Question of...
@karenarchey wrote: Der Chef, 1964. © 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn *This text was originally published in issue 1 of our sister publication e-flux journal To be...
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Evan Calder Williams on criticism, genealogy, and struggle
@e_flux wrote: As part of the LA Review of Books's ongoing symposium on critical thinking and writing amidst social crisis, Evan Calder Williams evokes the work of Chris Chitty, a distinguished...
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OMG! The Hyperbole of Internet-Speak
@karenarchey wrote: If you ever wondered what those pesky Millennials are talking about, Jessica Bennett of the has the story on the internet generation's use of confounding hyperbole in the New York...
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