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Facial-Recognition Technology Just Got a Lot More Powerful
@e_flux wrote: At the Baffler website, Jacob Silverman examines how a few recent major developments around facial-recognition software bring the technology much closer to everyday commercial and...
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Hannah Black Reviews Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Dispatches from the Obama Years
@e_flux wrote: Coates.jpg768x512 47.2 KB In the new issue of Bookforum, Hannah Black reviews Ta-Nehisi Coates’s We Were Eight Years in Power, a collection of eight essays Coates wrote for The Atlantic...
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Turkish Garbage Collectors Open Library Full of Discarded Books
@e_flux wrote: gettyimages-905542040.jpg1100x740 91.8 KB From the website For Reading Addicts, a story that will tickle the hearts of bibliophiles: As CNN reports, the library was originally created...
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A New Anti-Imperialist Internationalism for the Twenty-First Century
@e_flux wrote: English_imperialism_octopus.jpg552x561 99.8 KB The massive new issue of Viewpoint Magazine focuses on imperialism, interrogating how it has changed since the twentieth century, and...
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Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto
@e_flux wrote: Kant.png918x536 644 KB In his recent book Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto, Bryan W. Van Norden—an expert in Chinese philosophy who teaches at Wuhan University in...
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From the Universal to the Particular: Feminist Approaches to Climate Change
@e_flux wrote: Women & climate change.jpg3000x2000 682 KB At Real Life, Anna Reser and Leila McNeill argue that geoengineering and other planetary-scale approaches to combatting climate change...
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Kodwo Eshun’s Inaugural Mark Fisher Memorial Lecture (Video)
@e_flux wrote: Mark Fisher quote.jpeg960x540 81.9 KB A little over a year ago, we lost Mark Fisher, a brilliant theorist who was equally at home writing about 1980s post-punk and Marxist political...
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We Live in Philip K. Dick's World Now
@e_flux wrote: Philip-K-Dick.jpg1732x1209 389 KB In the Boston Review, Henry Farrell explores how Philip K. Dick’s obsession with the fuzzy border between the real world and invented realities is more...
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Why Tech Companies Love the False Transparency of Glass Architecture
@e_flux wrote: In Mute magazine, Key MacFarlane examines the growing popularity of greenhouse-like architecture among tech companies like Amazon and Apple, tracing it back to the imperialist worldview...
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How Not to Die: Three New Books on Death and Dignity
@e_flux wrote: Landis Blair, From Here to Eternity.jpg706x1024 543 KB In the current issue of Bookforum, Charlotte Shane reviews three recent books that grapple with the death-denying tendencies of...
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Boris Groys and Cai Guo-Qiang: A Conversation from a Studio Visit
@e_flux wrote: Cai_Boris Groys.jpg3960x2640 4.41 MB March 4, 2017 Cai Guo-Qiang: These are my latest studies in painting. For decades, I worked with black gunpowder; as you can see, it produces a...
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Cristina Bogdan Denounces the "Farce" of Transmediale 2018
@e_flux wrote: transmediale-2018-face-value-berry.jpg768x512 48.6 KB In the Romanian magazine Revista ARTA, Cristina Bogdan offers a scathing rant about the complacency and hypocrisy of this year's...
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Ukraine's Anti-Russian Censorship is Making It Look a Lot Like the Kremlin
@e_flux wrote: matilda-h_2017.jpg928x523 97.5 KB Writing for Open Democracy, Kateryna Botanova, a Ukrainian curator and critic, denounces the rise of anti-Russian censorship in Ukraine amidst Russia's...
View Articlee-flux Statement on the Art & Education Service Administered Jointly with...
@e_flux wrote: Following the recent call to boycott Artforum, e-flux has been asked to “suspend their relationship with Artforum,” which would entail discontinuing the Art & Education website and...
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"Dystopia for Sale": The Commercialization of Bleak Futures
@e_flux wrote: maids.jpg4240x2384 565 KB At Lit Hub, Brady Gerber writes about how the renewed popularity of dystopian stories, as exemplified by the success of The Handmaid's Tale TV show, has...
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Alberto Toscano on "French Philosophy and the Subject of Decolonization"
@e_flux wrote: THE-BATTLE-OF-ALGIERS2050.jpg2050x1274 121 KB Writing in Viewpoint Magazine, Alberto Toscano asks how radical French philosophers of the mid-twentieth century confronted the struggle...
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How YouTube's Algorithm Distorts Truth
@e_flux wrote: Alex Jones.jpg1240x827 50.2 KB Writing for The Guardian, Paul Lewis goes deep on YouTube's secretive recommendation algorithm, trying to determine what role it might have played in...
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Hans Ulrich Obrist Talks With Vitalik Buterin about Blockchain and...
@e_flux wrote: vitalik_buterin_1391981290_85.jpg1680x818 122 KB In Spring 2018 issue of Tank Magazine, Hans Ulrich Obrist interviews Vitalik Buterin, cofounder of the blockchain-based system Ethereum,...
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Kathi Weeks on the Mandate to "Love Your Work"
@e_flux wrote: The Verso blog has republished a piece by refusal-of-work theorist Kathi Weeks entitled "Down with Love: Feminist Critique and the New Ideologies of Work" (originally published in WSQ)....
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The "Invisibility of Technology" and its Perils
@e_flux wrote: iPhone X.png1200x675 189 KB In her review of three new books on technology's ambition to become invisible, Laura Forland quotes a well-known saying by Mark Weiser of the Xerox PARC lab:...
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