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Neoreactionism: A history
@e_flux wrote: In Viewpoint magazine, Shuja Haider provides a detailed history of neoreactionism and its emergence into the political mainstream with the election of Donal Trump. The piece uncovers...
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"Resignation syndrome" and the trauma of facing deportation
@e_flux wrote: In the New Yorker, Rachel Aviv has a heartrending story about hundreds refugee children in Sweden who, upon hearing that they would be deported to their country of origin, have fallen...
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Automation will degrade more jobs that it will eliminate
@e_flux wrote: In the just-released April issue of Brooklyn Rail, Jason E. Smith dismantles much of the conventional wisdom about impending automation. He notes that in both developed and developing...
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Against Nick Land and the Reactive Left — ANON
@DADABASE wrote: The William Buckley debates was political discourse at its finest. Although watching Norman Mailer throwing shade at Gore Vidal is entertaining, James Baldwin taking Buckley to task...
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Live coverage April 5: Opening program of The School of Redistribution, Athens
@e_flux wrote: The School of Redistribution is a three-month-long program that investigates the economic conditions that determine the work of small-scale organizations of contemporary art and culture...
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On the resurgence in dystopian fiction
@e_flux wrote: In the New York Times, Alexandra Alter writes about the recent resurgence in dystopian fiction released by US publishing houses. Not only are dystopia classics like Orwell's 1984 and...
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Two leftist visions of the future
@e_flux wrote: At the n+1 website, Greg Afinogenov reviews two recent books that outline diverging visions of the future from the left: Wolfgang Streeck's How Will Capitalism End?: Essays on a Failing...
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Alberto Toscano: "Notes on Late Fascism"
@e_flux wrote: At the blog of the journal Historical Materialism conference, Alberto Toscano offers a brilliant and in-depth analysis of today's new fascisms. With a particular focus on Trump and the...
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The folly of thinking that we've entered a "new Cold War"
@e_flux wrote: In the April–May 2017 issue of Bookforum, Sean Guillory reviews three recent books on US-Russia relations: Who Lost Russia? by Peter Conradi, Return to Cold War by Robert Legvold, and...
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"The Myth of Liberal Policing"
@e_flux wrote: In The New Inquiry, Alex S. Vitale argues that the liberal view of police reform fundamentally mistakes the structural role of policing. Without understanding this role, writes Vitale,...
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Étienne Balibar: "The Genre of the Party"
@e_flux wrote: Originally delivered as a talk at a conference in 2010, Étienne Balibar's text "The Genre of the Party" is a groundbreaking examination of the historical relationship between the...
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An antiwar perspective on Syria
@e_flux wrote: At the n+1 website, Richard Beck has a detailed and impassioned piece on the Syrian tragedy from an antiwar perspective. Instead of supporting one side over another in the complex...
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Paul B. Preciado: "The Apatride Exhibition"
@e_flux wrote: by Paul B. Preciado “Spring is not a good season for austerity,” sang the Greek musician Lena Platonos in the 1980s. Despite the decisions of the Troika and the collapse of democratic...
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Adam Curtis: Donald Trump has become a deep state puppet
@e_flux wrote: At Salon, Jacob Sugarman interviews Adam Curtis about the US's recent missile strike in Syria and the lessons of Trump's election that liberals refuse to learn. Curtis argues that Trump...
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McKenzie Wark: "After Capitalism, the Derivative"
@e_flux wrote: At Public Seminar, McKenzie Wark examines the underappreciated work of Randy Martin, a political theorist and dance scholar who had some startlingly original ideas about late capitalism...
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Wayne Koestenbaum on finding freedom in form
@e_flux wrote: At The Creative Independent, Amy Rose Spiegel talks with Wayne Koestenbaum—poet, critic, and visual artist—about how playing with forms helps him get started on a writing or painting...
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"The Silicon Ideology": A technological history of neoreactionism
@e_flux wrote: Recently, a number of valuable essays have offered various histories of neoreactionism, including Shuja Haider's "The Darkness at the End of the Tunnel: Artificial Intelligence and...
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Do we live in a "golden age" of critical theory?
@e_flux wrote: The Verso blog has an interview with French theorist Razmig Keucheyan, author of The Left Hemisphere: Mapping Critical Theory Today. Keucheyan discusses pessimism of the intellect,...
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Can't Help It: Laure Prouvost in Conversation with Didem Pekün
@e_flux wrote: Laure Prouvost, from Wet Monitor Man, 2017 Didem Pekün: I wanted to invite you to do this in the hammam (Turkish bath) in Istanbul, one of the oldest in the city. I thought a...
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Against fascist environmentalism
@e_flux wrote: At the website libcom.org, the radical environmental collective Out of the Woods responds to a widely circulated piece by writer, poet, and climate activist Paul Kingsnorth entitled...
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