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What Will the State Look Like in an Era of Ecological Disaster?
@e_flux wrote: gettyimages-475548666.jpg830x553 54.7 KB In The Nation, Alyssa Battistoni reviews Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future by Geoff Mann and Joel Wainwright, which...
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The Secret Military History of the Internet
@e_flux wrote: f10aug1972.jpg2038x1214 181 KB At the website of the journal boundary 2, Zachary Loeb reviews Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet by Yasha Levine. As Loeb...
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Reimagining the Middle Class
@e_flux wrote: At the Baffler website, Ann Neumann interviews Alissa Quart, author of the new book Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America. While Quart’s book focuses on the US, its analyses...
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New Black Gothic
@e_flux wrote: In the LA Review of Books, Sheri-Marie Harrison has a piece entitled “New Black Gothic” that explores the recent revival of Gothic themes by African American writers, musicians, and...
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Ten Years After the Crash
@e_flux wrote: financialcrisis-resize.jpg830x551 48.5 KB In the London Review of Books, John Lanchester looks back at the global financial crisis of 2008 and shows how it paved the way for unstable...
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Theses on Theory and History
@e_flux wrote: lane1_1.jpg946x1000 122 KB At the Verso blog, the Wild On Collective—which consists of historians Ethan Kleinberg, Joan Wallach Scott, and Gary Wilder—has published a manifesto of sorts...
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Two Novels on the Feminist Muse
@e_flux wrote: At Public Books, Lindsay Gail Gibson reviews two recent books that toy with the conventions of the novel to investigate feminist subjectivity: Blue Self-Portrait by Noémi Lefebvre...
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Women’s Labor as the Culture Sector’s Invisible Dark Matter
@e_flux wrote: art handlers.jpeg1200x900 288 KB At the website Runway, which focuses on experimental art in Australia, Macushla Robinson writes about the “invisible dark matter” of labor performed by...
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Jack Halberstam: "Vertiginous Capital Or, The Master’s Toolkit"
@e_flux wrote: At the website Bully Bloggers, Jack Halberstam has a stirring call to arms that asks us not to work for the improvement of the system he labels “vertiginous capital,” but rather to...
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Eugene Thacker's Scholarly Advice for Dark Times
@e_flux wrote: Thacker.jpg800x533 156 KB In the New Yorker, Betsy Morais has a short piece on Eugene Thacker, whose new book, Infinite Resignation: On Pessimism, comes out this month. Thacker teaches...
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Queer Temporality at Berghain
@e_flux wrote: BERGHAIN-Gebaude_sml_b.jpg1008x669 161 KB In the most recent issue of The White Review, a literary magazine published in London, writer Julia Bell narrates an emotional evening spent at...
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A Radical Future for Mexico?
@e_flux wrote: andres-manuel-lopez.jpg968x681 52.2 KB Last Sunday, leftist candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador (known as “AMLO”) was elected president of Mexico is a landslide. At the Verso blog,...
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"Curator Says MoMA PS1 Wanted Her, Until She Had a Baby"
@e_flux wrote: In the New York Times, Melena Ryzik reports that Nikki Columbus, an experienced curator and art editor, has filed a complaint with the New York City Commission on Human Rights against...
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The Cinema of Surveillance
@e_flux wrote: Dr. Mabuse.jpg850x639 66.5 KB In the July 2018 issue of The Baffler, film writer Nick Pinkerton examines depictions of surveillance in cinema, paying particular attention to Fritz...
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Silicon Valley's Latest Innovation: Low-Wage Workers Posing as AI Bots
@e_flux wrote: 5758.jpg1240x744 58.3 KB In The Guardian, Olivia Solon reports on the pervasive use of “pseudo-AI” in Silicon Valley companies large and small. This is when companies take the work of...
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Maggie Nelson's Poetry Book About New York, Heartbreak, and the Gowanus Canal
@e_flux wrote: maggienelson.jpg2000x1333 1.59 MB Maggie Nelson’s 2015 book The Argonauts, a memoir about writing, art-making, and queer family, was a critically acclaimed best seller. It brought...
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Trump and the History of "Militant Democracy" in the US
@e_flux wrote: 4361.jpg1240x744 47.7 KB At the n+1 website, Udi Greenberg details the largely unacknowledged history of “militant democracy” in the US. This phrase, first used by political theorist...
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The Anglophone Rediscovery of Aimé Césaire
@e_flux wrote: In The Nation, scholar and writer David B. Hobbs compares three English translations of Aimé Césaire’s best-known poetic work, Cahier d’un Retour au Pays Natal, including the first...
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Eleven Theses on Civility
@e_flux wrote: immarch-07011831.jpg763x509 581 KB At the website of the journal Social Text, Tavia Nyong’o and Kyla Wazana Tompkins offer “Eleven Theses on Civility,” a piece which seeks to question...
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Sports Fandom and Capitalist Alienation
@e_flux wrote: World-Cup-fans-3.jpg3860x2437 126 KB As the World Cup has captured the globe’s attention over the past few weeks, the fervor of the fans in the stands has received almost as much screen...
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