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The Politics of Sexual Harassment (1981)
@e_flux wrote: LindaGordon1.jpg768x652 45.3 KB Viewpoint magazine has republished a piece from 1981 entitled "The Politics of Sexual Harassment" that remains disturbingly relevant today. Delivered as...
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Elaine Scarry on the Insane Nuclear-Weapons Policy of the US
@e_flux wrote: missles.jpg3000x2159 1.24 MB In The Nation, Elaine Scarry, a renowned scholar of literature and aesthetics, exposes the irrational and terrifying nuclear-weapons policy of the US, which...
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Make Queer Theory Dangerous Again
@e_flux wrote: At Public Seminar, Aaron Neber reviews the book Queer Apocalypses: Elements of Antisocial Theory by Lorenzo Bernini, a professor of philosophy at the University of Verona. In the book,...
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Why Is Online "Debate" So Fruitless and Toxic?
@e_flux wrote: Twitter.jpg920x614 61.6 KB In the Guardian, Oliver Burkeman examines the social, psychological, and technological factors that not only make online "debate" so toxic, but that keep us...
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How the Neoliberal University is Complicit in the Rise of the New Right
@e_flux wrote: At the Baffler website, Maximillian Alvarez examines how the neoliberalization of universities in recent decades has made them vulnerable to the racist machinations of new-right...
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Don't Mourn the Collapse of the Political Center
@e_flux wrote: Jeremy Corbyn.png2340x1227 3.87 MB In the current issue of Salvage magazine—a UK-based socialist journal of politics and culture—the editors survey the wreckage of contemporary global...
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What Does "Globalism" Mean Today?: On Contemporary Chinese Art
@e_flux wrote: farewell-our-globalism.jpg1000x782 2.52 MB Writing in the December issue of Art in America, Richard Vine reviews the Guggenheim New York's current exhibition “Art and China after 1989:...
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The Racial Biases of Facial-Recognition Software
@e_flux wrote: facial recognition.jpg1225x735 88.1 KB According to experts, facial-recognition technology is still very much a work in progress, with false matches disproportionately affecting people...
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Masha Gessen: Will Concern Over Harassment Lead to a More Sexually...
@e_flux wrote: Gessen.jpg1023x784 129 KB Writing in the New Yorker, Masha Gessen asks if the ongoing public outcry over sexual harassment in the workplace might inadvertently revive more conservative...
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Is Fascism Making a Comeback?
@e_flux wrote: Bannon and Trump.jpeg1480x833 51.7 KB At the Verso blog, several noted critical theorists, including Chiara Bottici, Tim Jacoby, and Charlie Post, reply to perhaps the most urgent...
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Bruno Latour Reintroduces us to Planet Earth
@e_flux wrote: Latour.jpg1024x667 104 KB At Public Books, John Tresch reviews Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climate Regime by Bruno Latour. Among other strengths of the book, Tresch...
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"Gained in Translation": The Rich and Unavoidable Subjectivity of Translation
@e_flux wrote: tolstoy-parks.jpg1600x1115 185 KB Writing for the blog of the NY Review of Books, Tim Parks, a writer and translator of Italian literature, reflects on how knowledge and experience...
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Climate Change and the Fall of the Roman Empire: A Cautionary Tale
@e_flux wrote: roman-forum.jpg4961x3320 5.33 MB In the LA Review of Books, Ellie Robins has a glowing (and sobering) review of Kyle Harper’s recently published book The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease,...
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Towards a Cyborg Transfeminism
@e_flux wrote: ghost-in-the-shell.jpg1024x576 123 KB In the current issue of Salvage journal, Sølvi Goard uses Ghost in the Shell as an entry point for a discussion of how capitalism shapes bodies,...
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Lauren Berlant on the Jokester, the Predator, and Sexual Harassment
@e_flux wrote: At the New Inquiry, Lauren Berlant reflects on the figures of the jokester and the predator in light the recent flood of allegations of sexual harassment against powerful men. Among...
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Judith Butler on Free Speech and its Limits
@e_flux wrote: berkeley protests.jpg1818x1000 183 KB The Verso blog has an edited version of remarks delivered by Judith Butler to her fellow UC Berkeley faculty members regarding recent free-speech...
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The Alt-Right Created a Parallel Internet and it’s a Piece of Crap
@e_flux wrote: 12ROOSE-1-master768.jpg768x512 51.3 KB Kevin Roose, a reporter for the New York Times, subjected himself to a painful experiment so the rest of us don't have to: he visited a host of...
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Three Books on How Finance Gambles with All Our Lives
@e_flux wrote: UBS trading floor 2008.jpg1500x1004 502 KB At Public Books, Daniel Fridman reviews three books that seek to understand how high finance harvests, shapes, and imperils the lives of...
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Net Neutrality Was Never Enough
@e_flux wrote: net-neutrality-protest.jpg1600x900 280 KB At The Atlantic, Ian Bogost presents a dissenting view about the recent repeal of net-neutrality rules by the Federal Communication Commission...
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Beneath Butler: Cruising Brazilian Dystopia
@e_flux wrote: Bulter protest.jpg800x533 193 KB by Jota Mombaça November 10: Judith Butler is harassed at the Congonhas airport by a group of Brazilian conservatives, after a week of controversies due...
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