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How the "Platform" Is Radically Changing Technology, the Economy, and Society
@e_flux wrote: article-2219188-158CE597000005DC-890_1024x615_large.jpg1024x615 236 KB In the Los Angeles Review of Books, Leif Weatherby reviews a host of recent books that aim to understand the...
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Rachel Kushner’s Prison Novel
@e_flux wrote: At the Bookforum website, Sasha Frere–Jones reviews Rachel Kushner’s new novel The Mars Room, about a women who is imprisoned after killing her stalker and receiving two consecutive...
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Gun Violence and American Foreign Policy
@e_flux wrote: On their website, n+1 has published an editorial from their newly released Spring 2018 issue. The piece draws out the connections between US military aggression abroad and the country's...
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Errol Morris: The Truth About "Truth"
@e_flux wrote: errol-morris-q-and-a-fe.jpg1200x675 249 KB Errol Morris has had a distinguished career as a maker of documentary films—such as The Thin Blue Line (1988) and The Fog of War: Eleven...
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McKenzie Wark: "Why Marx Now?"
@e_flux wrote: mov_karlmarx_2573.jpg1200x674 90.7 KB At the Verso blog, McKenzie Wark close-reads one of the most famous parts of the Communist Manifesto—the passage that begins, "All that is solid...
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Alfred Döblin’s Hard-Boiled Berlin
@e_flux wrote: Alfred Döblin.jpg1553x1333 760 KB New York Review Books recently published a new translation by Michael Hofmann of Berlin Alexanderplatz, the brilliant, seedy, dizzying Weimar novel by...
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Building Feminist Cities
@e_flux wrote: katrina-johnston-zimmerman.jpg2000x1333 1.18 MB The Creative Independent interviews urban anthropologist Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman, whose work aims to flesh out what a "feminist city"...
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Response to the BelgianArtPrize Exclusionary Shortlist 2019
@e_flux wrote: The shortlist of candidates for the 2019 BelgianArtPrize was recently announced, and it exhibits a startling lack of gender and ethnic diversity. Some members of the Belgian art...
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Transforming the Global "Precariat" into a Political Force
@e_flux wrote: 160305-TorontoIWD-08.JPG900x448 231 KB At openDemocracy, Alphan Telek develops the notion of the "political precariat," based on Guy Standing's idea of the precariat as a new class...
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The Rise and Fall of the Latin American Left
@e_flux wrote: Lula.jpg1920x1080 404 KB In The Nation, Omar G. Encarnación traces the emergence and eventual dissolution of Latin America's "Pink Tide"—the left-wing, non-communist governments and...
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“You don’t grow without being self-critical”: A Conversation with Diana...
@e_flux wrote: Image 11-Bearing Point.JPG5376x3240 2.68 MB by Mirela Baciak Diana Campbell Betancourt is an American curator based in Bangladesh, the Philippines, and Brussels. She is the artistic...
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The Delusions of "Green" Energy
@e_flux wrote: AltaWind_1.jpg800x571 110 KB At the Verso blog, Alexander Dunlap, an anthropologist who researches the geography and politics of renewable energy, argues that renewables are hardly the...
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The Blockchain Network Influenced by the Ideas of Félix Guattari
@e_flux wrote: At The New Inquiry, Uriah Marc Todoroff interviews Erin Manning and Brian Massumi, "anti-capitalist philosophers" based in Montreal who are using blockchain technology to develop a...
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"Can We Recapture London?": Rethinking the Relationship Between Artists and...
@e_flux wrote: In Mute magazine, Josephine Berry, a lecturer at Goldsmiths and an editor at Mute, reviews a new anthology that focuses on the history of London's SPACE studios, which has worked to...
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Digital Over-Connection Is the Effect, Not the Cause, of Our Social Ills
@e_flux wrote: At Public Books, James Edward Draney writes about the misplaced technophobia of commentators who blame our many social ills on the rise of digital devices. These devices, asserts...
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The Prison–Capitalism Nexus: An Interview with Jackie Wang
@e_flux wrote: In the Los Angeles Review of Books, M. Buna interviews poet and radical scholar Jackie Wang, author of the essay collection Carceral Capitalism, recently published by Semiotext(e). The...
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Bestselling Historian Sees Peaceful "Human Unification" on the Horizon
@e_flux wrote: dpa-Picture-Alliance-57087154-HighRes-1800-1.jpg1800x1200 916 KB Israeli academic Yuval Noah Harari has a refreshingly out-of-step perspective on the most pressing political issues of...
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Barbara Ehrenreich on Preparing for a Good Death
@e_flux wrote: Barbara Ehrenreich (c) Peter Azbug .jpg800x539 59.5 KB American writer Barbara Ehrenreich is most famously the author of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, a first-person...
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"The New Passport-Poor": Borders, Refugees, and Body-Scanning Tech
@e_flux wrote: iris-scan.jpg1600x1067 125 KB As Atossa Araxia Abrahamian writes at the New York Review Daily, experts predict that within a decade passports will be a thing of the past, replaced by...
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Right-Wing Populists and the "Superstition" of the Masses
@e_flux wrote: Trump.jpg1042x586 34.6 KB At the Verso blog, Asad Haider, author of the recently published Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump, turns to Spinoza and Deleuze and...
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