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Open Letter on the Future Structure of Documenta
@e_flux wrote: documenta 14.jpg2000x1332 492 KB Offener Brief zur zukünftigen Struktur der documenta: Stellungnahme zur Trennung der documenta gGmbH von Annette Kulenkampff Open Letter on the Future...
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China Miéville: "We live in a utopia: it just isn’t ours"
@e_flux wrote: The Boston Review has an interview with staggeringly talented writer and clear-eyed militant China Miéville. Miéville discusses how his fiction writing does (and does not) relate to his...
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Wall Street's Fear Gauge
@e_flux wrote: VIX.jpg750x544 70.2 KB In the current issue of the London Review of Books, Donald MacKenzie reflects on the advent and evolution of Wall Street's "fear gauge": the VIX, or Volatility...
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Is Everything You Think You Know About Depression Wrong?
@e_flux wrote: Hari.jpg1240x744 49.2 KB The Guardian has an excerpt from journalist Johann Hari's forthcoming book Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression—and the Unexpected...
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Statements from the University of Cambridge about the Death of Giulio Regeni
@e_flux wrote: Giulio-Regeni.jpg2048x1536 275 KB A message from the Vice-Chancellor to the academic community, January 16, 2018 (originally published at cam.ac.uk). "It has been almost two years since...
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Are We Heading for Another Economic Crash?
@e_flux wrote: financial crisis.jpeg980x551 92.1 KB At the Verso blog, a number of distinguished scholars of economics and finance—including Wolfgang Streeck, Susan Newman, Mingqi Li, and Dario...
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"A new anti-work movement has taken shape"
@e_flux wrote: cubicle.jpg1225x735 63.7 KB In a piece for The Guardian, Andy Beckett talks to the academics and activists who are striving to transform post-work politics from a left-wing curiosity to...
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On the "New Proletarian Cinema"
@e_flux wrote: Florida-Project.jpg1200x676 89.7 KB At The New Inquiry, Kaila Philo reflects on what she terms the "New Proletarian Cinema" of a handful of young indie directors in the US. Philo's...
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Jack Halberstam: "Toward a Trans* Feminism"
@e_flux wrote: At the Boston Review, Jack Halberstam writes about the fraught (but improving) relationship between trans* politics and feminism. Amidst the Women's Movement of the 1970s and '80s,...
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James C. Scott on Everyday Forms of Resistance to State Power
@e_flux wrote: Scott.jpg1024x679 214 KB In the Los Angeles Review of Books, author Francis Wade interviews anarchist political scientist James C. Scott, who is Sterling Professor of Political Science...
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Live Coverage: Hito Steyerl and e-flux Book Launch at the Guggenheim
@e_flux wrote: Join Erica Love and João Enxuto [@EnxutoLove] on this thread, starting at 6:30pm NY time today, for live responses to the double book launch of Hito Steyerl’s Duty Free Art: Art in the...
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Fredric Jameson on Ursula K. Le Guin
@e_flux wrote: LeGuin.jpg768x513 56.6 KB To mark the passing of the mighty Ursula K. Le Guin earlier this week, the Verso blog has posted a 1975 article by Fredric Jameson on Le Guin's classic novel...
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The Metaphysical Similarity Between Authoritarians and Engineers
@e_flux wrote: engineers.jpg1056x650 105 KB At the Baffler, David A. Banks reflects on the largely hidden roll of the engineering professions in upholding the dominant social order. As Banks notes,...
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"The White House asked to borrow a van Gogh. The Guggenheim offered a gold...
@e_flux wrote: maurizio-cattelan-america.jpg870x489 61 KB Trump got punked by the Guggenheim. The Washington Post reports: The emailed response from the Guggenheim’s chief curator to the White House...
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L’Ancien Régime Strikes Back: Letter to Paul B. Preciado
@e_flux wrote: Lene Vollhardt - Grace Chapters - Video Still - 2017 - 1.png1524x854 1.64 MB Image: Lene Vollhardt, The Grace Chapters, 2017. Film still. by Luce deLire This text is a response to...
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200 Top Scientists Urge American Museum of Natural History to Kick...
@e_flux wrote: queens-anthropocene.png830x467 217 KB The press release below was widely distributed today by The Natural History Museum, a nonprofit traveling museum: For Immediate Release: January...
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What Ever Happened to "Alternative" Culture?
@e_flux wrote: At Real Life, Gavin Mueller, who was a teenager in the 1990s, wonders why that era's "alternative" culture—from the DIY internet to activist "culture jamming"—failed to make a lasting...
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Bifo on the “Possibility of Joy”
@e_flux wrote: Bifo.jpg1140x570 79.5 KB Public Seminar has published the translated transcript of an interview that Franco "Bifo" Berardi did with the Argentinian radio program radio program Clinamen....
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What Causes Some Cities to Become Sites of Revolution?
@e_flux wrote: Prise_de_la_Bastille.jpg2510x1874 1.23 MB In The Nation, David A. Bell reviews a recent book that asks why revolutionary activity emerges in some places and not others: The Unruly City:...
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The "Cognitive Estrangement" of Slow Cinema
@e_flux wrote: In the Boston Review, Mark Bould appraises the aesthetics and implicit politics of "slow cinema," a recent trend in film that privileges long takes, extended duration, and an attention...
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