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The Strange Consolations of Orwell's 1984 in Our Dystopian Era
@e_flux wrote: george-orwell-e1529898081870.jpg858x514 67.3 KB Darren Ambrose is a film scholar, filmmaker, and editor of k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2004-2016),...
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Lauren Berlant on the Ordinariness of Violence
@e_flux wrote: c29dcc0d-b6aa-e611-80c3-0050569125fe.636147577600463042.jpg1600x1214 251 KB At the Los Angeles Review of Books, Brad Evans interviews Lauren Berlant as part of his ongoing series...
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The Hollow Ideology of the "Innovator"
@e_flux wrote: Gates.jpg1200x800 58 KB At the boundary 2 website, John Pat Leary parses the religious and capitalistic connotations of the notions of “innovation” and the “innovator.” “The ideology of...
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Does Literature Help Us Live?
@e_flux wrote: Woolf.jpg1400x788 113 KB American literary critic Kenneth Burke once described literature as “equipment for living.” But at the blog of the New York Review of Books, literary scholar...
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The Political Consequences of Compassion Fatigue
@e_flux wrote: 3003.jpg1280x769 41.3 KB In The Guardian, Elisa Gabbert traces the history of the concept of “compassion fatigue” and examines its impact on our everyday lives in the present era of...
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The Final “Final Foucault”?
@e_flux wrote: Foucault.jpg1000x600 82.7 KB At the Los Angeles Review of Books, philosopher Joseph Tanke reflects on the recent publication in French of the fourth volume of Foucault’s History of...
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The American Socialist Revival
@e_flux wrote: meet_the_press_alexandria_ocasio-cortez.jpg928x523 49.6 KB In the past few years the US has seen a small but promising resurgence in socialist politics. First Bernie Sanders, who...
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Alberto Toscano: "Allan Sekula and the Logistical Image"
@e_flux wrote: Sekula-1-1200x787.jpg1200x787 215 KB In the journal Society and Space, Alberto Toscano reflects on why many contemporary artists take as their subject the logistics of capitalism, as...
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Former Documenta CEO Annette Kulenkampff Is Cleared of Financial Impropriety
@e_flux wrote: Annette Kulenkampff.jpg960x542 38.9 KB As Naomi Rea reports in Artnet News, a public prosecutor in Kassel has cleared former documenta CEO Annette Kulenkampff of financial impropriety...
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Have We Become Numb to Dire Predictions of Climate Catastrophe?
@e_flux wrote: arctic-melt-3.adapt.1900.1.jpg1024x560 89.8 KB In the New York Review of Books, scientist and conservationist Tim Flannery reviews two recent books about how climate change is...
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Edward Said, 40 Years Later
@e_flux wrote: edward_said_en_22_.jpg1000x658 106 KB At Popula, historian Daniel Varisco revisits Edward Said’s influential 1978 book Orientalism, which argued that Western scholarship on “the East”...
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How Inequality Erodes Our Mental Health
@e_flux wrote: In 2009, epidemiologists Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson published an influential book entitled The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger, which sought to...
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Freud the Revolutionary?
@e_flux wrote: freud1.jpg2957x2153 1000 KB At the Verso blog, sociologist Linda Roland Danil makes the case for Freud as a politically radical thinker, as evidenced by subtle but crucial remarks in...
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What Would a Heat-Proof City Look Like?
@e_flux wrote: 2992.jpg2250x1351 68.9 KB Much of the globe is currently experiencing a heatwave that portends what a future of warmer average temperatures might look like. Some of the most intense...
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A New Generation of Activists Is Challenging the Way France Thinks About Race
@e_flux wrote: france-protest-racism-ap-img.jpg1440x907 230 KB In The Nation, Karina Piser writes about young activists in France who are critiquing and helping to change entrenched beliefs about race...
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Félix Guattari on Revolutionary Organization
@e_flux wrote: felixguattari.jpg800x535 60.6 KB At the website of the journal Salvage, philosopher Andrew Ryder strives to rescue Félix Guattari from the austere confines of academia, arguing that his...
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"The Serve-Us Industry": On the Erasure of Labor in the Delivery Economy
@e_flux wrote: Postmates.png1200x800 185 KB Food delivery and task-based services like Postmates, Seamless, and TaskRabbit have grown considerably in recent years, aided by the presence of a pool of...
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Poetry Is Everywhere—If You Look in Non-Traditional Places
@e_flux wrote: In The Atlantic, Megan Garber reports on an unexpected upsurge in the popularity of poetry in the US, according to a new survey conducted by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)....
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A Letter From Osman Kavala Upon Completion of his 9th Month in Prison
@e_flux wrote: Osman_0.jpg960x599 36.8 KB Last fall we published an open letter detailing the unjust imprisonment of Osman Kavala in Turkey. Kavala is an entrepreneur, cultural patron, and activist...
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Major Scientific Paper Says We Must Abandon "Neoliberal Economics" to Avert...
@e_flux wrote: GettyImages-803684112-1534261523-e1534261572361.jpg1440x720 166 KB At The Intercept, Kate Aronoff reports on a scientific paper published recently that set off a storm of alarming...
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