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The rise of music streaming and the privatization of listening
@e_flux wrote: In a piece called "Networked Listening" published at Real Life, communications scholar Eric Harvey examines how the rise of internet radio and music streaming services have made the...
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From Sanders to social democracy? Building a radical party in the US
@e_flux wrote: In a piece entitled "Making Waves (Part 1)," the editors of Viewpoint magazine examine the renewed interest in creating a social democratic political party in the US, one that would...
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Masha Gessen: "The Real Madman"
@e_flux wrote: At the blog of the NY Review of Books, Masha Gessen comments on recent events—including the US's retaliation for Assad's use of chemical weapons in Syria, and the frosty reception that...
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"Mexican Is Not a Race": Poet Wendy Trevino in conversation
@e_flux wrote: Trevino.jpeg720x720 56.9 KB At The New Inquiry, poet and literature scholar Chris Chen talks with fellow poet Wendy Trevino about her most recent chapbook Brazilian Is Not a Race....
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"Turkey's vote makes Erdoğan effectively a dictator"
@e_flux wrote: At the New Yorker website, Dexter Filkins writes about the results of last weekend's referendum in Turkey, in which voters, by a narrow margin, granted President Erdoğan sweeping new...
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Alain Badiou: "Vote, or reinvent politics?"
@e_flux wrote: With the first round of French presidential elections scheduled for April 23, Alain Badiou weighs in on the question of whether the dominant system can ever truly be changed through...
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Elena Ferrante as architecture
@e_flux wrote: At the Paris Review website, Matteo Pericoli, founder of the Laboratory of Literary Architecture, images Elena Ferrante's celebrated novel My Brilliant Friend as a building (pictured...
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"Afghanistan: Making It Worse"
@e_flux wrote: At the blog of the New York Review of Books, Ahmed Rashid assesses the political situation in Afghanistan, a week after the US dropped the "Mother of All Bombs" on an ISIS base in the...
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How not to resist white nationalism: Lessons from apartheid South Africa
@e_flux wrote: The history of apartheid in South Africa offers countless examples of brave and strategically effective resistance to race-based government oppression, from Nelson Mandela to Desmond...
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How the CIA Secretly Funded Arab Art to Fight Communism
@e_flux wrote: The CIA has a well-known history of funding art for propaganda purposes during the Cold War, most famously in its support for US artists like Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, and...
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Emmanuel Macron, the death spasm of a faltering system
@e_flux wrote: In Le Monde Diplomatique, French philosopher Frédéric Lordon writes about the curious candidacy of Emmanuel Macron, who has emerged as the front-runner after the first round of the...
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"Footnotes from Athens" by Mirela Baciak
@e_flux wrote: FOOTNOTES FROM ATHENS Mirela Baciak I spent four weeks in Athens starting in early February 2017. I conducted thirty interviews with people, some of whom have been living in Athens and...
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The New Status Symbol: "Conspicuous Production"
@e_flux wrote: In The Guardian, Ben Tarnoff writes about "conspicuous production," the new status symbol that, thanks largely to the work culture of Silicon Valley, is now competing with the more...
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"The Anatomy of Liberal Melancholy"
@e_flux wrote: At the website of The Baffler, J. M. Bernays examines the stubborn, almost pathological refusal of liberals to recognize that their longstanding worldview no longer corresponds to...
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"Democracy as Relationship" by Jeremy Bendik-Keymer
@e_flux wrote: DEMOCRACY AS RELATIONSHIP Jeremy Bendik-Keymer I think one simple way for artists to engage politically with the roots of democracy is to show people as people living, working, and...
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Wolfgang Streeck on the "interregnum" of the present
@e_flux wrote: In another key text published in the New Left Review—this time in the March–April 2017 issue of the magazine—Wolfgang Streeck examines the "interregnum" we now find ourselves in, "a...
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Nine Notes on “Gender Strike”
@e_flux wrote: In the journal Blind Field, Madeline Lane-McKinley offers "Nine Notes on 'Gender Strike,'" a piece that was originally delivered as a talk at the Historical Materialism conference in...
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Eileen Myles: "Now is an amazing moment for writing"
@e_flux wrote: At the Verso blog, Ray Filar chats with Eileen Myles about Trump's art-funding cuts and the vibrancy of queer writing today. Myles also explains why their early published work so often...
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The poetry of deindustrialization
@e_flux wrote: Bernes.png1024x683 1.3 MB At the Stanford University Press blog, poet and literature scholar Jasper Bernes explores how twenty-first century deindustrialization is portray in a poem by...
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A basic income for social justice, not bare survival
@e_flux wrote: On the left, debates around a government-provided basic income have gained a new prominence lately, especially in parts of Europe and North America. Much of the momentum behind the push...
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