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Is Liberalism Even Worth Saving?: On Yascha Mounk
@e_flux wrote: yascha-mounk.jpg1100x619 87.4 KB At the n+1 website, Daniel Denvir and Thea Riofrancos provide a withering critique of The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom is in Danger and How to...
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Eileen Myles on Loving (and Hating) Poetry
@e_flux wrote: At Literary Hub, Paul Holdengraber conducts a short and freewheeling interview with Eileen Myles, who is as charmingly unpredictable as ever. She ducks Holdengraber's solemn questions...
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"Pictures of a Gone City": San Francisco After the Tech Boom
@e_flux wrote: 920x920.jpg920x613 97 KB In the April issue of the Brooklyn Rail, Max Moorhead reviews Pictures of a Gone City: Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area by...
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Saidiya Hartman is Carrying Forward the Black Radical Tradition
@e_flux wrote: Saidiya Hartman is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and the author of three books including Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and...
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Which Feminisms?
@e_flux wrote: protesters.jpg1600x900 348 KB In the current issue of the New Left Review, Susan Watkins has a lengthy and ambitious piece that takes stock of what past feminisms accomplished and...
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Marco Deseriis on the "Politics of Condividuality"
@e_flux wrote: In the latest issue of the journal Transversal, Marco Deseriis explores what he terms the "politics of condividuality"—a politics that he suggests has the potential to "exceed...
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Writing Under the Influence
@e_flux wrote: wirtingwhilehigh.jpg1000x585 484 KB Over at the Paris Review website, the staff of the magazine has put together an entertaining and informative compendium of quotes from famous writers...
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Theorist Wendy Brown on the "Peculiar Political Formation" of the Present
@e_flux wrote: CT-CM-Photo-WendyBrown.jpg800x536 98.5 KB At Eurozine, Joe Littler talks to political theorist and UC Berkeley professor Wendy Brown, whose most recent book, Undoing the Demos (2015),...
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A Call to Defend Rojava
@e_flux wrote: GettyImages-940377234.jpg1600x1067 449 KB Including signatories such as Judith Bulter, Noam Chomsky, and David Graeber, the New York Review Daily has published an urgent call to defend...
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The Erotics of Mentorship
@e_flux wrote: Abelard and Heloise.jpg700x625 56 KB In the Boston Review, Yale professors Marta Figlerowicz and Ayesha Ramachandran reflect on the erotics of intellectual mentorship, with its complex...
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Why Do Authoritarian Regimes Love Elections?
@e_flux wrote: egypts-president-abdel-fattah-al-sisi.jpg854x570 36.8 KB At openDemocracy, Egyptian journalist Amro Ali examines the paradoxical fact that modern authoritarian regimes love to hold sham...
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Open Letter to the Directors of the National Museum in Krakow
@e_flux wrote: national-museum-krakow.jpg800x533 66.5 KB To: Andrzej Betlej and Andrzej Szczerski, Directors, National Museum in Krakow Dear Sirs, In response to the rising tide of nationalist,...
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"Our Drones, Ourselves": How Warfare is Changing—And Changing Us
@e_flux wrote: 1101nigerusmilitarydrones.jpg854x570 26.9 KB At Public Books, Jason Pearl reviews two recent books that examine how drones are transforming warfare, making it "safer" for military...
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Jacques Rancière Talks to Striking Railworkers in France
@e_flux wrote: gettyimages-941754202.jpg1240x827 221 KB The Verso blog has published a series of replies from Jacques Rancière to questions submitted by striking French railworkers. The questions...
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Can the Tech Sector Be Unionized?
@e_flux wrote: In the spring 2018 issue of n+1, Alex Press explores the difficulties and promise of organizing workers in the tech sector. Due to their high wages and cultish work culture, techies...
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Sheila Heti on Creativity and Motherhood
@e_flux wrote: sheila-heti-charla-jones-hero.jpg1000x800 70.4 KB At Bookforum, Kaitlin Phillips reviews the novel Motherhood by Sheila Heti, a Canadian writer noted for her auto-fiction about the...
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Are Cities an Environmental Curse or Blessing?
@e_flux wrote: At Public Seminar, urban planning scholar Robert A. Beauregard examines the popular notion that cities are the most environmentally sustainable form of modern human settlement—more than...
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William T. Vollman on the "Carbon Ideologies" that Thwart Action on Climate...
@e_flux wrote: 2360-vollmann.jpg1440x720 86.4 KB In the Boston Review, Ted Hamilton interviews American writer William T. Vollman about his new book Carbon Ideologies, a two-part tome that seeks to...
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The New Yorker on Fred Moten's "Radical Critique of the Present"
@e_flux wrote: At the New Yorker website, David Wallace has a profile of theorist, poet, and black radical thinker Fred Moten. Wallace explores the link between Moten's poetry and his theoretical...
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Oral Histories of May '68
@e_flux wrote: Paris-1968-France-protest-003.jpg940x623 273 KB On the fiftieth anniversary of the May 1968 revolt in France, Viewpoint Magazine has published an excerpt from May Made Me: An Oral...
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