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Amazon and the bankruptcy of “urbanism”
@e_flux wrote: Amazon recently announced that it plans to build a second headquarters (in addition to its existing headquarters in Seattle), and invited cities across the US to compete for the honor...
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Hito Steyerl is 2017's most influential artist
@e_flux wrote: ArtReview has released its "Power 100" list for 2017, which ranks "this year's most influential people in the contemporary artworld," and the top spot is occupied by Hito Steyerl. The...
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Július Koller and the archive as performance
@e_flux wrote: koller_01.jpg1200x881 1.12 MB Writing for the Institute of the Present, art historian Daniel Grúň reflects on Slovak avant-garde artist Július Koller and the extensive personal and...
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"Artists before Columbus": A startling discovery of pre-Columbian Caribbean art
@e_flux wrote: The website Repeating Islands, which covers Caribbean culture and art, reports that researches recently discovered "the largest concentration of indigenous pre-Columbian rock art in the...
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Trumpism will outlast Trump
@e_flux wrote: Trump koi.jpg800x635 64.6 KB Writing for Huffington Post, Paul Glover—an author, activist, and former professor of urban studies—argues that whenever Donald Trump finally leaves office,...
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What does "dictatorship of the proletariat" really mean?
@e_flux wrote: commune.jpg727x547 118 KB Yesterday was the hundredth anniversary of the Russian Revolution, when for perhaps the second time in world history (the first being the Paris Commune), a...
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Statement by the Shortlisted Nominees of the 2017 Preis der Nationalgalerie
@e_flux wrote: ImageSHB.jpg3543x2531 307 KB November 9, 2017 As the four shortlisted nominees for the Preis der Nationalgalerie, we have decided to release a joint statement concerning our experience....
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Who is the City For?: Revisiting Lefebvre's Right to the City
@e_flux wrote: Droit_a_la_ville.jpg1000x1644 419 KB At the Verso blog, Anna Minton revisits Henri Lefebvre's landmark book The Right to the City, fifty years after its original publication. Minton...
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Pioneering cyberpunk Jaron Lanier on the perils and potential of VR
@e_flux wrote: Jaron Lanier.jpg2048x1365 508 KB The New York Times has a lengthly interview with Jaron Lanier, a pioneering cyberpunk turned internet skeptic, whose new book is Dawn of the New...
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Black and Blur: Fred Moten talks to the Brooklyn Rail about visual art
@e_flux wrote: Delaney, Untitled (Jazz Club).jpg1600x1237 870 KB In the November issue of the Brooklyn Rail, Fred Moten talks to Jarrett Earnest about his forthcoming book Black and Blur, which traces...
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Antonio Negri Unpacks Lenin's Most Memorable Slogans
@e_flux wrote: Lenin's arrival.jpg879x640 87.3 KB Viewpoint magazine has translated a talk on Lenin given by Antonio Negri at the conference "Penser l’émancipation" in Paris this September....
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Werner Herzog: From New German Cinema Auteur to Hollywood Mainstay
@e_flux wrote: On the occasion of the publication by University of Minnesota Press of a book collecting treatments for some of Werner Herzog's best films—such as Aguirre, the Wrath of God and...
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The Racial Fallacies of Personal DNA Testing Services
@e_flux wrote: ethnicity-map-blobs.jpg804x369 30.9 KB At the Baffler website, Jacob Silverman excoriates the racial and cultural fallacies promoted by personal DNA testing services like 23andMe and...
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Taking Stock After One Year of Trump
@e_flux wrote: One year ago, in the aftermath of the election of Donald Trump to president of the United States, historian Robin D. G. Kelley wrote in the Boston Review that "the outcome should not...
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How Nigeria Created the Second-Largest Film Industry in the World
@e_flux wrote: lagosdvd.jpg800x533 241 KB The n+1 website has an excerpt from Nollywood: The Making of a Film Empire by Emily Witt, which explores how the Nigerian film industry came to produce more...
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Open Letter: Freedom for Osman Kavala
@e_flux wrote: Osman Kavala_no_1.png1024x865 1020 KB Credit: Çiğdem Mater #freeosmankavala – Freedom for Osman Kavala! Artists of the 3rd Berliner Herbstsalon in Berlin call for the immediate release...
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Working-Class Environmentalism
@e_flux wrote: Cohen.jpg1020x683 751 KB At Public Books, Daniel Aldana Cohen debunks a number of misconceptions about the environmental value of urban density, as found in cities like New York and...
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Will Robots Be Granted Rights That Migrants and Indigenous People Are Denied?
@e_flux wrote: Sophia.jpg3209x1766 151 KB At the Baffler website, Pedro Neves Marques tells the story of Sophia, an AI robot designed to look like Audrey Hepburn, who can engage in complex...
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The Death of Homo Economicus?
@e_flux wrote: Fleming.jpg853x1280 234 KB At Public Seminar, Vince Carducci reviews The Death of Homo Economicus: Work, Debt, and the Myth of Endless Accumulation by Peter Fleming. A heretical...
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Richard Hell on Collaboration
@e_flux wrote: richard-hell.jpg1200x800 244 KB Richard Hell—former member of Television and Richard Hell & the Voidoids, and all-around punk pioneer—talks to The Creative Independent about the...
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