Clik here to view.
Spotify and the "Automation of Selling Out"
@e_flux wrote: spotify.jpg1280x720 131 KB In the current issue of The Baffler magazine, Liz Pelly examines how the ascendence of Spotify has altered listening habits, the economics of music...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Geographies of Ignorance
@e_flux wrote: Vegas.jpg1500x844 267 KB The November–December 2017 issue of the New Left Review has just been released, and it contains a short but powerful reflection by Italian journalist and author...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Revolutionary Potential of Collective Joy
@e_flux wrote: Women's March.jpg2817x1583 491 KB At the Verso blog, Lynne Segal, author of Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy, contrasts individual happiness—which is the focus of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What Makes a Job Vulnerable to AI Automation?
@e_flux wrote: robotics.jpg1600x1053 625 KB At Motherboard, Michael Byrne reports on the recent publication of a major scientific paper that strives to bring some clarity to the muddled predictions...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Michel Leiris (1901–1990), the Original "Iconoclastic Anthropologist"
@e_flux wrote: At Public Books, Tim Watson reviews two books by Michel Leiris, an underappreciated French anthropologist, that have been translated into English for the first time: Phantom Africa, a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Michael Haneke, Autuer of Modern Sociopathy, on Consumption, Technology, and...
@e_flux wrote: haneke-happy-end.jpg1366x911 160 KB Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke is known for his unsparing vision of just-below-the-surface violence in films like Caché and The Piano Teacher. His...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Misreading the Protests in Iran
@e_flux wrote: Iran protests.jpg1240x744 46.6 KB Late last week, major protests erupted in a handful of provincial cities across Iran, and have since spread to Tehran. Predictably, some Western...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What Happens When All News is "Breaking News"?
@e_flux wrote: At Real Life, Nathan Jurgenson reflects on the increase in the pace of the news cycle since the election of Donald Trump, whose first year in office has seemingly involved more dramatic...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Great Attention Heist
@e_flux wrote: smartphone_commuter.jpg3304x1859 2.97 MB At the LA Review of Books, John Bell and John Zada review The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads by Tim Wu, which is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Beyond the Class/Identity Impasse
@e_flux wrote: CRC-1979-banner.jpg2314x1520 2.48 MB At Viewpoint magazine, education scholars David I. Backer and Kate Cairns argue that the history of "critical pedagogy" offers lessons for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Masha Gessen: "Fighting Fake News Is Not the Solution"
@e_flux wrote: Gessen-Fake-News.jpg813x542 79.8 KB In her regular columns for the New Yorker, Masha Gessen examines two recent studies which conclude that right-wing fake news has a far smaller impact...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Trump's Real Power is His Ability to Make Himself the Center of Attention
@e_flux wrote: trump-bannon.jpg4500x3042 2.23 MB At the n+1 website, Patrick Blanchfield reviews the book that has dominated headlines for the past week, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Looming Digital Meltdown
@e_flux wrote: Zeynap.jpg1192x1002 186 KB In the New York Times, Zeynep Tufekci writes that internet security breaches, malware, and identity theft will continue to be a growing problem in the coming...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Statement from Osman Kavala on His Continuing Imprisonment in Turkey
@e_flux wrote: Osman Kavala.jpg1200x630 43.6 KB In November of last year, we published an open letter from artists of the 3rd Berliner Herbstsalon calling for the release of civil society activist and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Chris Kraus's "Sublimated and Witchy" Book on Kathy Acker
@e_flux wrote: Acker.jpg1280x800 670 KB In the current issue of Bookforum, David Velasco has a brilliantly sassy review of After Kathy Acker, the latest book by Chris Kraus. Velasco writes that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Illusory Freedoms of "Off-Peak" Living
@e_flux wrote: stashcash.jpg1280x851 125 KB At Real Life magazine, Linda Besner examines the growing trend of "off-peak" living, in which savvy individuals follow an opposite schedule from the rest of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What Happened to the Workers’ Movement, and How Can It Be Rebuilt?
@e_flux wrote: Writing for the website of the journal Salvage, sociologist and labor activist David Camfield discusses the historical developments that led to the decline of working-class political...
View ArticleClik here to view.
"My Joke Cryptocurrency Hit $2 Billion and Something Is Very Wrong"
@e_flux wrote: dogecoin.jpg1280x1280 125 KB In 2013, Jackson Palmer, an Australian computer programer, created a "tongue-in-cheek" cryptocurrency called Dogecoin. Last weekend, his joke currency...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Gig Economy's Great Delusion
@e_flux wrote: At the Boston Review, Clara Hendrickson details how companies like Uber, Airbnb, and Task Rabbit, along with their political backers, have framed the gig economy as a new form of social...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How "Self-Optimization" Books Reveal the Values and Priorities of Our Time
@e_flux wrote: carl-cederstrom-and-andre-spicer.jpg940x529 287 KB In the January 2018 issue of the New Yorker, Alexandra Schwartz surveys a handful of what might be termed "anti-self-help" guides,...
View Article