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Die Schwarze Botin: A Forgotten Magazine of New Left Feminism

@e_flux wrote: Gabriele-Classen-Feminismus-Goettle Die-schwarze-Botin-Frauenhefte-8-von-33-Nummern-zwischen-1976.jpg800x607 67.7 KB At Eurozine, Katharina Lux excavates the history and militant...

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Art’s Plain Art of Living

@e_flux wrote: Chloe Bass.png975x697 1.2 MB Image from Chloë Bass, “Chapter Three: We walk the world two by two,” The Book of Everyday Instruction. Photo source: chloebass.com by Jeremy David...

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Nonviolence Against Fascism: An Interview with Todd May

@e_flux wrote: Todd-May.jpg1000x669 51.8 KB Todd May is a political philosopher at Clemson University in the US and the author of many books, including A Fragile Life: Accepting Our Vulnerability...

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What the Internet-Centric Nature of #MeToo Leaves Out

@e_flux wrote: tarana-burke-metoo-harvey-weinstein-column.jpg1000x563 624 KB At Open Space, the blog of SFMOMA, Momtaza Mehri reflects on #MeToo as an internet-driven movement, identifying both the...

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Beware the Authoritarian Center

@e_flux wrote: Luigi Di Maio.jpg1240x744 48.7 KB At openDemocracy, political researcher David Adler summarizes the results of a recent study he conducted about support for democratic norms and...

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Musk, Bezos, and the Folly of Billionaires in Space

@e_flux wrote: article00_large.jpg1024x504 266 KB At the Bookforum website, Ken Kalfus reviews a new book that delves into the space-exploration ambitions of egomaniacal billionaires Elon Musk and...

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The Acceleration of Everyday Life, Broken Down Along Gender and Class Lines

@e_flux wrote: Judy-Wajcman-para-JD-4.jpg800x533 156 KB Judy Wajcman is a sociologist of work and author of Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism (2014). She studies how...

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"Today in Greece, tomorrow in Europe": The Perils of Privatization

@e_flux wrote: cosco_piraeus_web-thumb-large.jpg958x598 168 KB In The Nation, Alexander Saeedy investigates the worsening labor conditions at the Port of Piraeus, Greece’s busiest port, since it was...

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For Lasting Creativity, Be Your Own Best Friend, Not Your Harshest Critic

@e_flux wrote: img_3511.jpg1600x1200 140 KB At Pacific Standard, Tom Jacobs reports on the results of a compelling study about the link between creativity and “emotional intelligence,” that elusive...

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Second-Wave Feminism and the Legacy of Intergenerational Conflict

@e_flux wrote: article00_large.jpg790x1024 594 KB The mark the fiftieth anniversary of the launch of the women’s liberation movement, Charlotte Shane reflects on intergenerational feminist conflict...

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Don't Delete Facebook. Organize to Change Facebook.

@e_flux wrote: 180410221036-facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-meets-with-members-of-congress-on-capitol-hill.jpg3000x2011 619 KB At the Baffler website, Dave Denison interviews Siva Vaidhyanathan, a...

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The Hidden Women of Architecture and Design

@e_flux wrote: Natalie de Blois.jpeg975x659 140 KB Writing for The New Yorker, Alexandra Lange details the careers of several women who played prominent roles in the development of twentieth-century...

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Jeremy Corbyn Calls for the Return of Parthenon Marbles to Greece

@e_flux wrote: gettyimages-953360588.jpg968x681 31.2 KB The Independent is reporting that Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party in the UK, has said that if he were elected prime minister he would...

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Class Matters More Than Ever Before, Even As We Talk About It Less

@e_flux wrote: Fight for 15.jpg4000x2667 4.75 MB In the newly released June issue of the Brooklyn Rail, Peter St. Clair reviews Class Matters: The Strange Career of an American Delusion by Steve...

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Virginie Despentes's Novels of Bohemian Connection and Fragmentation

@e_flux wrote: virginiedespentes.jpg1125x612 73.1 KB French writer, theorist, and filmmaker Virginie Despentes published a trilogy of novels between 2013 and 2017 collectively entitled Vernon Subutex....

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Leslie Kaplan's Fiction-in-Verse Narrates the 1968 Factory Revolts in France

@e_flux wrote: workersfactory_hfarocki_27.jpg3000x2400 493 KB Bookforum has published an excerpt from Excess—The Factory, a book of fiction-in-verse by Leslie Kaplan, originally published in French in...

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Amazon Has Officially Entered the Surveillance Business

@e_flux wrote: Amazon Rekognition Service.jpg1615x799 277 KB As reported by Matt Cagle and Nicole A. Ozer, Amazon has unveiled a new service called "Amazon Rekognition,” which purports to be one of...

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Fred Moten on Levinas, Arendt, Fanon, and "Phenomenology’s Distress"

@e_flux wrote: FM-portrait.jpg1024x1046 146 KB Next month, Duke University Press will publish the final volume in Fred Moten’s trilogy consent not to be a single being. The third volume, entitled The...

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Is European Populism Actually Saving Liberal Democracy?

@e_flux wrote: In the wake stunning political developments in Italy and Spain last week, Jan-Werner Müller, writing for the New York Review Daily, asks if European populism might be rescuing liberal...

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Masha Gessen on Orwell's Advice for Writing in Dark Times

@e_flux wrote: Fan-George-Orwells-Little-Beasts.jpg727x526 67.4 KB In a moving piece for the New Yorker, Masha Gessen reflects on George Orwell’s famous essay “The Prevention of Literature,” in which...

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