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Silvia Federici on the #MeToo Movement [Video]
@e_flux wrote: The Verso blog has video of a recent talk delivered in Portland, Oregon by pioneering radical feminist Silvia Federici. As the event description notes, in the talk "Federici examines...
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New Fred Moten Poem: "come on, get it!"
@e_flux wrote: Fred Moten.jpg1000x666 241 KB The New Inquiry has published a new poem by celebrated black-radical scholar Fred Moten. Check out an excerpt below, or the full poem here. They practice...
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Top Researchers Outline the Malicious Potential of AI Technology
@e_flux wrote: Terminator.jpg2048x1354 576 KB As Daniel Oberhaus writes for Motherboard, a group of top AI researchers has published a major report about the future potential for AI technology to be...
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In Praise of Negative Book Reviews
@e_flux wrote: destroyed book.jpg1050x800 283 KB At the Baffler website, Rafia Zakaria decries the state of literary book reviewing, in which negative or critical reviews are eschewed in favor soaring...
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Hungary’s Government is Trying to Destroy the Georg Lukács’s Archive
@e_flux wrote: At the website of Jacobin magazine, Róbert Nárai, who has edited and translated newly available work by Georg Lukács, details how the right-wing government in Hungary is trying to...
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The New Yorker Profiles Peter Sloterdijk
@e_flux wrote: Sloterdijk.jpg1200x650 56.5 KB In the New Yorker, Thomas Meaney has an extensive profile of "celebrity philosopher" and towering German intellectual Peter Sloterdijk. As Meaney writes,...
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Why Can Everyone Spot Fake News But The Tech Companies?
@e_flux wrote: fake news.jpg900x599 227 KB Reporting for BuzzFeed, Charlie Warzel wonders why Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter repeatedly fail to stop the spread of damaging conspiracy theories on their...
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How Much Will the Seas Rise?
@e_flux wrote: NYC_zpsigu4ht8p.jpg800x533 193 KB In the London Review of Books, Meehan Crist reviews The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities and the Remaking of the Civilised World by Jeff...
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Andreas Malm's “Socialist Climate Realism”
@e_flux wrote: Robbins.jpg1024x647 285 KB In the latest issue of Bookforum, Michael Robbins reviews The Progress of This Storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World by Andreas Malm. One of Malm's...
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What Does "Totalitarianism" Mean in Today's Geopolitical Landscape?
@e_flux wrote: ENZO-TRAVERSO.jpg1000x800 101 KB In the twentieth century, the term "totalitarianism" emerged to describe extremely oppressive and powerful political regimes, especially Nazi Germany...
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The New Fairy Tale: Feminists Reimagine a Traditional Literary Form
@e_flux wrote: 2277700082_6cf39a6587_b.jpg1024x761 477 KB At Public Books, Sophia Booth Magnone reviews Her Body and Other Parties, a short-story collection by Carmen Maria Machado that turns the...
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Against Left Economic Nationalism
@e_flux wrote: Writing in the February 2018 issue of the Brooklyn Rail, Jamie Merchant offers a trenchant and detailed critique of "left economic nationalism," an emerging current of left-wing thought...
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Why Did Foucault Get Political?
@e_flux wrote: Foucault.jpg1000x600 82.7 KB In The Nation, Bruce Robbins, professor of English at Columbia University, reflects on two recent biographies about Foucault that address the question of...
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Syria and the Problem of Left Solidarity
@e_flux wrote: GettyImages-921962392-768x545.jpg768x545 106 KB Writing for the website of Salvage magazine, anthropologist Donya Alinejad and social scientist Saskia Baas call on Western leftists...
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The Italian Election and the Continuing Collapse of the Political Center
@e_flux wrote: 180228-italian-elections-mc-15379_e7966c45e40677a73e8a0cf8d4fd3b0e.nbcnews-ux-2880-1000.jpg1594x1000 260 KB At the Verso blog, David Broder reflects on the results of the Italian...
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Review of "Goodbye iSlave: A Manifesto for Digital Abolition"
@e_flux wrote: At the boundary 2 blog, Zachary Loeb reviews Goodbye iSlave: A Manifesto for Digital Abolition by Jack Linchuan Qiu. Qiu uses the legal concept and historical institution of slavery to...
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An Atheist Defense of Religion
@e_flux wrote: CNN.jpg1100x733 176 KB In the LA Review of Books, political philosopher Todd May reviews The Meaning of Belief: Religion from an Atheist’s Point of View by Tim Crane. Crane's book...
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Hatred of Literature
@e_flux wrote: Plato.jpg768x511 42.4 KB At the Baffler website, Jonathon Sturgeon reflects on literature's diminishing cultural significance. His jumping-off point is the book The Hatred of Literature...
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Call from Kurdish Women's Movement: "Let's turn the 21st century into the era...
@e_flux wrote: Kurdish women fighters.jpg1000x541 114 KB Just in time for International Women’s Struggle Day (as they call it in their letter), the Kurdish Women's Movement has published an open...
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From #MeToo to #WeStrike
@e_flux wrote: new-york-city-1970.jpg1200x741 154 KB Writing for Viewpoint Magazine, Liz Mason-Deese explores how #MeToo can grow from seeking the exposure and prosecution of individual cases of...
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