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The Fear of "Killer Robots" Is Overblown, Experts Say
@e_flux wrote: Despite Elon Musk’s dire warning that thinking machines may seek to eradicate humanity, Hannah Devlin reports in The Guardian that most computer experts think “killer robots” are the...
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On the Revolutionary "Intercommunalism" of Black Panther Huey P. Newton
@e_flux wrote: Newton.jpg1280x720 97.9 KB At Viewpoint Magazine, Delio Vasquez explores the theory of “intercommunalism” advanced in the early 1970s by Huey P. Newton, cofounder of the Black Panther...
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The Bullshit-Job Boom
@e_flux wrote: At the New Yorker, Nathan Heller riffs on David Graeber’s new book Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, which began life as an essay published in a small left-wing magazine in 2013 that...
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The Homophobia of the Erdoğan Regime Belies Turkey's Rich History of Gender...
@e_flux wrote: genç_2-062818.jpg1600x1064 340 KB In the New York Review of Books, Kaya Genç trances the history of gender nonconformity in Turkey, showing how the repressive policies of the Erdoğan...
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When New York City Almost Failed
@e_flux wrote: At Public Seminar, Claire Potter interviews Kim Phillips-Fein, author Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and The Rise of Austerity Politics (2017), which is just out in paperback....
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The Decline of Space Exploration and Our Disillusionment with "Progress"
@e_flux wrote: At the Baffler website, Gene Seymour has a poignant and personal piece that expresses nostalgia for the era when space travel stoked our fascination with the universe and made us ask...
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"Live Work Work Work Die": Inside Silicon Valley
@e_flux wrote: At the LA Review of Books, historian Justin Tyler Clark reviews Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley by Corey Pein. The book is a funny and searing...
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The Bizarre Combat Trauma of "Drone Warriors"
@e_flux wrote: 17Drones1-jumbo.jpg1024x681 152 KB In the New York Times Magazine, Eyal Press examines the physical distress and moral anxiety experienced by drone pilots in the US military. These...
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Democratizing the Control of Money and Credit Will Lead to a More Equitable...
@e_flux wrote: Federal Reserve.jpg3600x2384 1.45 MB At openDemocracy, Thomas H. Greco, educator and author of The End of Money and the Future of Civilization (2009), contemplates how enabling...
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"The crisis of neoliberalism presents an intellectual and political opportunity"
@e_flux wrote: moyn_news.jpg960x640 390 KB In the London Review of Books, Pankaj Mishra reviews The People v. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It by Yascha Mounk, and Not...
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Marx Without Progress—or Illusions
@e_flux wrote: In the Boston Review, Bruce Robbins reviews two new books that wrestle with the question of how Marx’s work can be made relevant in an era substantially different from the one that...
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Radical Psychiatry and 1968
@e_flux wrote: laing-corbis.jpg968x681 51 KB The Verso blog is running an ongoing series about the impact of the 1968 uprisings on various nations and currents of thoughts. In one of the most recent...
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Geoff Dyer on Writing Books as an Excuse to Learn About Things
@e_flux wrote: Dyer.jpeg1600x1067 209 KB Celebrated author Geoff Dyer, who has written books on subjects as diverse as Andrei Tarkovsky, jazz, photography, and yoga, talks to Gideon Jacobs for The...
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Roberto Saviano: "This new Italian government cannot be allowed to survive"
@e_flux wrote: In The Guardian, celebrated Italian writer Roberto Saviano denounces Italy’s new government for it’s cruel immigration policies and specious propaganda. Writing that “I have never felt...
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Why We Don't Read
@e_flux wrote: Crain-Decline-in-Reading.jpg813x542 56.1 KB At the New Yorker website, Caleb Crain examines numerous studies and statistics regarding the evolving reading habits of Americans (though...
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Digital Resistance: A Field Guide
@e_flux wrote: 18mn7grm67siejpg.jpg1600x900 112 KB The following is an excerpt from Digital Resistance: A Field Guide by Abhishek Narula, a pamphlet published this spring by Green Lantern Press. It’s...
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How Christianity Created Rock ’n’ Roll
@e_flux wrote: At Public Books, music critic David Hadju reviews The Devil’s Music: How Christians Inspired, Condemned, and Embraced Rock ’n’ Roll (2018) by Randall J. Stephens. As Hadju notes, The...
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Ecopoetics in the Anthropocene
@e_flux wrote: Walden_Pond.jpg1200x961 419 KB In the LA Review of Books, Jean-Thomas Tremblay reviews two recent books that examine how climate change and widespread environmental devastation have...
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"We do not yet know what a social movement can do"
@e_flux wrote: c-l-r-james-3.jpg900x750 125 KB Asad Haider is the author of Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump, published earlier this year by Verso. The book aims to explain how...
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The Forgotten Role of Imagination in Science
@e_flux wrote: Memorial_portrait_of_Robert_Hooke_for_Christ_Church_Oxford.jpg2770x2182 2.19 MB At Public Seminar, literary scholar Tita Chico looks at the history of science to show that it has never...
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