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The vacuousness of the "thought leader" class
@e_flux wrote: At the Baffler website, Chris Lehmann eviscerates Heleo, a new web-based service whose mission is to "elevate ... thought leaders, to help today’s great thinkers spread their ideas and...
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Is Ana Mendieta finally getting her due?
@karenarchey wrote: For the Observer, Guelda Voien writes about Ana Mendieta's legacy, and how her work has become increasingly appreciated (both historically and monetarily) in the decades after her...
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Can Podemos tilt Spain (and Europe) to the left?
@e_flux wrote: In the London Review of Books, Dan Hancox reviews Politics in a Time of Crisis: Podemos and the Future of a Democratic Europe by Pablo Iglesias, the head of the titular left-wing...
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Astrology, our irrationality of choice
@karenarchey wrote: I remember the first time a trusted friend and fellow writer told me to read AstrologyZone. Never one for spirituality, I recall politely declining, thinking she was a little...
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Sleep paralysis, precarity, and identity
@e_flux wrote: The New Inquiry has an interesting essay by Lana Polansky on the parallels between the frightening experience of sleep paralysis (a condition in which the mind wakes up but the body...
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Teleology and the Turner Prize or: Utility, the New Conservatism
@MorganQuaintance wrote: What is contemporary art for? In the 2011 Q-Art London publication ’11 course leaders 20 questions’ – an insightful set of interviews with educators on the past, present and...
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Caring for Eve Sedgwick
@e_flux wrote: At the New Yorker website, Jane Hu writes about the late Eve Sedgwick and her longtime companion, Hal Sedgwick, who today continues to care for Eve's archive and legacy the way he cared...
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Free speech, minstrelsy, and the poetic avant-garde
@e_flux wrote: In the LA Review of Books, Chris Chen and Tim Kreiner consider the controversy surrounding conceptual poets Kenneth Goldsmith and Vanessa Place, whose recent poetic projects have been...
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Is this the Third World War?
@e_flux wrote: In an Editor's Note in the December issue of the Brooklyn Rail, economist Paul Mattick suggests that in its global scope and world-historical implications, the ongoing conflict between...
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Simon Denny: Products for Organising at the Serpentine Galleries
@SerpentineGalleries wrote: Simon Denny (born 1982 in Auckland, New Zealand) is an artist whose work challenges ideas rooted in our globalised world of technology, consumerism and the dissemination of...
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Chinese citizens desire more censorship
@karenarchey wrote: While China is infamous for its ubiquitous censorship, a recent report in the Economist suggests that Chinese citizens wants more censorship, at least when it comes to violence....
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The influence of street gangs on contemporary art in LA
@e_flux wrote: At the LA Review of Books, Rodrigo Ribera d’Ebre provides a brief history of street gangs in twentieth century Los Angeles and traces how their graffiti, tattoos, and murals have...
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"Post-Castroism without a death certificate"
@e_flux wrote: In the December issue of e-flux journal, Ernesto Hernández Busto puts the breaks on the unwarranted enthusiasm surrounding the "post-Castro" era that is supposedly dawning in Cuba. He...
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Saving Lunds Konsthall
@karenarchey wrote: Originally published December 15th in Sydsvenska Dagbladet.translated by Anders Kreuger The hurried decision to ‘reconstruct’ Lunds konsthall and discontinue its current activities...
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Exhibition Tour: 'Office Space' at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
@karenarchey wrote: OfficeSpace-3.jpg3600x2403 3.91 MB Office Space, installation view, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2015. Courtesy Yerba Buena Center for the Arts / Charlie Villyard Office...
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Better management through belles lettres
@e_flux wrote: At The Baffler website, literary critic Merve Emre traces the growing popularity of literature classes at US business schools. In classes with titles like “Leadership Through Fiction”...
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The lives of the most eminent US State Department poets
@e_flux wrote: Poets C. O. Grossman and Juliana Spahr sifted through the WikiLeaks Public Library of US Diplomacy—a cache of US diplomatic cables—for mention of famous US poets from the second half of...
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The life and death of Claude Cahun
@karenarchey wrote: Have you ever heard of Claude Cahun? Chances are you haven't, despite the surrealist artist's astounding biography and ahead-of-its-time body of work. From their teen years, Cahun,...
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The female body of punk
@e_flux wrote: At Public Books, Ivan Kreilkamp reads four recent memoirs by female punk icons Viv Albertine, Chrissie Hynde, Kim Gordon, and Carrie Brownstein which touch on, among other things, the...
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"Condemn us, it does not matter: art will absolve us"
@e_flux wrote: Earlier this year, Cuban theater director Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti’s Havana production of Ionesco's Exit The King was shut down by authorities after only two performances. In the...
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