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How a working-class Dutch town veered right
@e_flux wrote: Today, Dutch voters go to the polls in national elections that could have far-reaching implication for the rise of neofascism in Europe and beyond. In the English-language edition of...
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Adam Curtis on the dangers of self-expression
@e_flux wrote: Adam Curtis, whose newest documentary film, HyperNormalisation, premiered on the BBC last fall, talks to the Creative Independent about power, individualism, and the perils of...
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"NEO-fascism" or "POST-fascism"?
@e_flux wrote: The Verso blog has an interview with Italian historian Enzo Traverso, author of books such as The Origins of Nazi Violence (2003) and Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory...
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Trump's shadow looms over 2017 Whitney Biennial
@e_flux wrote: The 2017 Whitney Biennial opened in New York this week, and The Guardian's Nadja Sayej writes that the show is saturated by the current political climate in the US. From pieces on...
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Yvonne Rainer and Adam Pendleton in conversation
@e_flux wrote: Pendleton_Rainer_StillsCOMBO.jpg640x720 59.7 KB The following conversation took place at Anthology Film Archives in New York on January 9, 2017, after the premier of Adam Pendleton’s...
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Reclaiming identity politics for socialist revolution
@e_flux wrote: In Viewpoint magazine, Salar Mohandesi examines how the concept of identity politics changed from a radical analysis of interlocking forms of oppression to a superficial idea of...
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Saving the French working class from Marine Le Pen
@e_flux wrote: The Guardian talks to wunderkind French novelist Édouard Louis about his working-class background and Marine Le Pen, who is increasingly winning the support of French voters like his...
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Perry Anderson on "why the system will still win"
@e_flux wrote: In the March issue of Le Monde diplomatique, Perry Anderson assess the threat posed to the neoliberal status quo by so-called "anti-systemic" movements on both the right and the left,...
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Hannah Black's Letter to the Whitney Biennial's Curators: Dana Schutz...
@DADABASE wrote: C7JbnXbW4AEFTzf.jpg960x720 56.5 KB Parker Bright protesting Dana Schutz’s Open Casket. SCOTT W. H. YOUNG (@HEISCOTT)/VIA TWITTER The inclusion of a Dana Schutz painting in the Whitney...
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Bifo: "After the European Union"
@e_flux wrote: At the Verso blog, Bifo has a piece declaring the death of the European Union project. It was killed, he writes, but the unaccountable financial bodies that imposed austerity across...
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The New York Times will not save us from "fake news," let alone neofascism
@e_flux wrote: Since the election of Trump, mainstream newspapers like the New York Times have enjoyed a surge in subscribers as readers turn to journalists to scrutinize and fact-check the...
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"Sacked Turkish academics take lectures to the streets"
@e_flux wrote: France 24 reports that many Turkish academics who were fired from their jobs in the recent crackdown by the Erdoğan government have taken to the streets of Ankara to deliver free...
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Working yourself to death in the new gig economy
@e_flux wrote: Perhaps you've seen the above advertisement on your local bus or subway? In the New Yorker, Jia Tolentino writes about the furor that has been ignited by its earnest promotion of...
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Defiant Pose revisited: An interview with literary agitator Stewart Home
@e_flux wrote: Los Angeles–based Penny-Ante Press recently republished Stewart Home's iconic 1991 experimental pulp novel Defiant Pose, with a new introduction by McKenzie Wark. Home is the author...
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Saskia Sassen on "de-globalization" and the return of the nation-state
@e_flux wrote: Saskia Sassen is a professor of sociology at Columbia University and the author of many influential books on the sociology of globalization, including Territory, Authority, Rights: From...
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Madame Realism: The brilliance of Lynn Tillman's essay fictions
@e_flux wrote: In the April–May 2017 issue of Bookforum, Prudence Peiffer reviews The Complete Madame Realism and Other Stories by Lynn Tillman, newly published by Semiotext(e). The book collects art...
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"The Time of Monsters: France’s Presidential Election"
@e_flux wrote: At the website of Salvage magazine, historian Chris Armstrong surveys the French political terrain in the lead-up to the first round of the presidential election, set for April 23. The...
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Rebecca Solnit: "Protest and persist: why giving up hope is not an option"
@e_flux wrote: The Guardian has a longread by Rebecca Solnit on why the fruits of mass protest are sometimes not realized for years or even generations. Check out an excerpt below, or read the full...
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Why is Nick Land still embraced by segments of the British art and theory...
@e_flux wrote: The group Shut Down LD50 Gallery has published a blog post about philosopher Nick Land and his continuing influence on certain segments of the British art world and academia. They write...
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Cathy O'Neil: "How to Manage Our Algorithmic Overlords"
@e_flux wrote: At Bloomberg, radical mathematician and data scientist Cathy O'Neil writes about the troubling ways that algorithms are being used in criminal investigations, with little oversight or...
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