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New Study Suggests That "Find Your Passion" Is Bad Career Advice
@e_flux wrote: As Olga Khazan reports in The Atlantic, a new study by a pair of Stanford professors undermines the cliched notion that in choosing a career, we should follow what we’re “passionate”...
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Timothy Morton: "What It's Like to Be On Hurricane Time"
@e_flux wrote: hurricane-harvey.jpg1600x900 299 KB Philosopher Timothy Morton teaches at Rice University in Houston, Texas. This put him directly in the path of Hurricane Harvey, which struck Houston...
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Alberto Toscano on Visualizing Spatial Injustice
@e_flux wrote: alberto.jpg960x540 66.2 KB The online journal Mediapolis talks with Alberto Toscano about the spacial dimensions of injustice, cognitive mapping, and the aesthetics of the “aftermath of...
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On Gender, Knowledge, and Scientific Careers
@e_flux wrote: Eurozine-A_class_in_mathematical_geography_studying_earths_rotation_around_the_sun_Hampton_Institute_Hampton_Virginia_LCCN98502977.jpg1536x1204 275 KB The feminist history journal...
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The Book Is a Time Machine
@e_flux wrote: dr-johnson-01.jpg968x681 68 KB At Public Books, historian David Henkin reviews Reading and the Making of Time in the Eighteenth Century (2018) by Christina Lupton, which explores how...
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The Hidden Political Lineage of the “Intellectual Dark Web”
@e_flux wrote: SOMMERS_c0-0-2100-1224_s885x516.jpg885x516 40.7 KB In the Los Angeles Review of Books, Jacob Hamburger examines the political lineage and growing influence of the “intellectual dark...
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Two Views on the Human Rights Framework in Peril
@e_flux wrote: universal-declaration-human-rights.jpg1200x964 160 KB In the Boston Review, anthropologist Mark Goodale reviews two recent books that take opposite positions on the value of the human...
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Can Economists and Humanists Ever Be Friends?
@e_flux wrote: As a writer, John Lanchester is a rarity: he is a critically acclaimed novelist who also understands the nuances of economics and finance, as evidenced in his journalism and nonfiction...
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Science Fiction is a Poor Guide for Tech Innovation
@e_flux wrote: BR-edb0bf4.jpg1001x667 70.4 KB At Motherboard, anthropologist S. A. Applin details the perils of taking science fiction as an inspiration for real-world tech innovations. Among other...
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"Scholarly publishing is broken"
@e_flux wrote: axelspringer.jpg1000x667 112 KB In the web magazine Berfrois, Jon Tennant dissects the many flaws in the current model of scholarly publishing, where a small number of privately owned...
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Undesigning Disability
@e_flux wrote: At Open Space, the blog of San Francisco MoMA, Monica Westin reflects on the design history and philosophy of the Beam, a “telepresence robot” that allows disabled patrons with limited...
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Douglas Rushkoff on the Apocalypse Escape Plans of the Tech Elite
@e_flux wrote: In The Guardian, Douglas Rushkoff relates a bizarre meeting he had with a handful of ultrarich tech entrepreneurs. He was invited to talk to them about the future of technology, but all...
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Tender Maps: The Feminist Function of Emotional Cartography
@e_flux wrote: Carte de Tendre.jpg726x667 174 KB At Verso blog, Giuliana Bruno explores the feminist notion of emotional mapping, which she describes as “a cartographic rendering of intimate...
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Is "Survival Socialism" the Solution to Disaster Capitalism?
@e_flux wrote: Flanders-Petrohilos_img.jpg1440x907 163 KB Writing in The Nation, Laura Flanders explores the model of “survival socialism” being developed by the Labour Party in the UK, which has been...
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All Reproduction Is Assisted: Questioning "Natural" Birth and Parenting
@e_flux wrote: In the Boston Review, Merve Emre examines how the belief in a “pure,” “natural” form of reproduction persists despite the proliferation of assisted reproductive technology’s such as...
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“Sorry to Bother You” Is the Anti-Capitalist Film We Need Right Now
@e_flux wrote: sorry-to-bother-you.jpg2000x1000 224 KB At The Intercept, Briahna Gray heaps praise on Sorry to Bother You, a “surreal dystopian” new film written and directed by Boots Riley, an...
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A Cultural History of Privacy
@e_flux wrote: At Public Books, scholar of literature and privacy Palmer Rampell reviews The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America by Sarah Igo. The book traces how notions of privacy...
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"Cinema captures the mysteriousness of life": An Interview with Filmmaker...
@e_flux wrote: Katia 1.jpg5112x2880 634 KB A still from Um filme para Ehuana (2018), dir. Louise Botkay by Jannik Schaefer Louise Botkay, thirty-nine, is a French-Brazilian cinematographer and...
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Alain Badiou: We Must Find a Way Out of the Neolithic Order
@e_flux wrote: At the Verso blog, Alain Badiou excoriates the simplistic notion that pervasive digital technology is responsible for our dystopian present. The problem, writes Badiou, is not...
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Psychologists Discover a Rise in "Neoliberal Perfectionism"
@e_flux wrote: 7295.jpg2250x1350 64.3 KB At Jacobin, Meagan Day examines a revealing new study conducted by psychologists Thomas Curran and Andrew Hill. It suggests that perfectionism, the...
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