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The Disillusionment of Post-Soviet Europe
@e_flux wrote: In the Boston Review, Marta Figlerowicz, who teaches literature at Yale, reviews Aftershock: A Journey into Eastern Europe’s Broken Dreams by John Feffer. The book seeks to understand...
View ArticleLetter of Support for Maria Inés Rodriguez, Director of Musée d’Art...
@e_flux wrote: On March 8, International Women’s Day, we learned through the press that Maria Inés Rodriguez will soon be evicted from her post as Director of the CAPC musée d'art contemporain de...
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Can We Decolonize Space Exploration?
@e_flux wrote: Cassini.jpg1200x675 45.8 KB At Real Life, Lou Cornum examines the future of space exploration as imagined by both government agencies such as NASA, and egomaniacal entrepreneurs like...
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David Graeber and David Wengrow Rethink the Course of Human History
@e_flux wrote: Eurozine-Graeber-Banksy.jpg1280x1024 229 KB As anthropologist David Graeber and archaeologist David Wengrow observe in a fascinating piece for Eurozine, the standard story about the...
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The Humanties are Useless—Can This Be Their Saving Grace?
@e_flux wrote: Writing for Pacific Standard, historian James McWilliams asserts that the humanities, which have faced declining budgets and shrinking enrolled in universities across the globe in...
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William Brittelle's Stirring "Post-Genre" Music
@e_flux wrote: Dream Has No Sacrifice cover.jpg700x700 72.9 KB In The Nation, music critic David Hajdu appraises two new works by William Brittelle, a young New York–based composer who professes to...
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How Condo Architecture Brings the Suburbs into the City
@e_flux wrote: Chroma.jpg3008x2000 1.44 MB Writing for the Baffler website, Kyle Paoletta examines how the condo-ization of cities—including his home city of Boston—imports the aesthetics and social...
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Why Anarchafeminism?
@e_flux wrote: EmmaGoldman.jpg1050x700 96.2 KB At Public Seminar, Chiara Bottici, a professor of philosophy at the New School in New York, delves into a current of thought and praxis that she dubs...
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Bifo: "Global civil war and the rotting of the white mind"
@e_flux wrote: RTX4Y8EP-1200x745.jpg1200x745 224 KB At the Verso blog, Franco "Bifo" Berardi uses the epidemic of gun violence in the US as a springboard for examining a global civil war in which, as...
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Protests Sweep Brazil After Apparent Assassination of Left-Leaning Rio City...
@e_flux wrote: Marielle Franco.jpg1240x827 74.7 KB As The Guardian reports, protests swept across Brazil yesterday after a popular Rio city councillor, Marielle Franco, was killed on Wednesday night...
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How Neoliberalism Reconfigures the Family
@e_flux wrote: In Viewpoint Magazine, Ben Mabie interviews Melinda Cooper, author of the recent book Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and New Social Conservatism. As Mabie states, Cooper's book...
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Jordan Peterson & Fascist Mysticism
@e_flux wrote: GettyImages-631818060.jpg1600x1067 344 KB Writing for the New York Review Daily, Pankaj Mishra examines the alarming popularity of Jordan Peterson, a professor of psychology at the...
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Rebecca Solnit on Transgression in the Art of Mona Hatoum
@e_flux wrote: mh67a_v01_m.jpg1000x491 233 KB At the Paris Review website, Rebecca Solnit engages in an extended reflection inspired by the work of installation and multimedia artist Mona Hatoum....
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"We Rarely Want the Things We Should": The Politics of Sexual Desire
@e_flux wrote: In the London Review of Books, Amia Srinivasan has a nuanced and fascinating piece about how oppression can shape one's most intimate desires. Cutting through the impasse between...
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Reforming the Narrative of History: Interview with Egyptian Filmmaker and...
@e_flux wrote: Castro Neto in motorcade .JPG3840x2160 3.3 MB Still from Cuba: An African Odyssey (2007), dir. Jihan El-Tahri. MPLA. by Skye Arundhati Thomas Jihan El-Tahri is an Egyptian-born French...
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Artists and Cultural Workers Support NY Parole Board's Decision to Release...
@e_flux wrote: Herman Bell, 70, is a former Black Panther/Black Liberation Army member who has been serving a life sentence in prison in New York state for the last forty-five years. Last week the New...
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Paul Ehrlich: "Collapse of civilisation is a near certainty within decades"
@e_flux wrote: 2000.jpg1225x735 68 KB In The Guardian, Damian Carrington interviews biologist Paul Ehrlich, who fifty years ago published The Population Bomb, a book that predicted dire ecological...
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Brazilian Democracy in Peril
@e_flux wrote: In the Boston Review, Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Marcelo K. Silva analyze the worrisome state of Brazilian democracy in the wake of the apparent assassination of Marielle Franco, a leftists...
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The New Military-Industrial Complex of Big Data Psy-Ops
@e_flux wrote: GettyImages-607814926.jpg1600x1019 240 KB Writing for the New York Review Daily, Tamsin Shaw reports on frightening developments in big data and behavioral science that have led to the...
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Conjuring Anthropology’s Future
@e_flux wrote: At Public Books, Simon During reviews a book that surprisingly has a lot to say about the future of anthropology: Magic’s Reason: An Anthropology of Analogy by Graham M. Jones, an...
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