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Unlearned Lessons of the 2008 Meltdown
@e_flux wrote: c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg800x564 254 KB At the website of The Baffler, Chris Lehmann looks back at the onset of the Great Recession ten years ago. He recalls how the...
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Greece After the Bailout
@e_flux wrote: greece-viome-factory-outside-sign-img-2.jpg1440x907 174 KB Earlier this week, the massive bailout program that Greece entered eight years ago officially came to an end. But as Patrick...
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The Left Needs to Envision a Progressive Utopia to Rival the Right-Wing's...
@e_flux wrote: DiEM25.jpg960x640 113 KB At the Al Jazeera website, writer and activist Lorenzo Marsili argues that one fundamental reason far-right political forces are gaining power and influence...
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Russian Cosmism's Vision of "Full-Throttle Luxury Space Communism"
@e_flux wrote: Cosmism.jpg900x568 210 KB At the Los Angeles Review of Books, novelist Aaron Winslow reviews Russian Cosmism, a collection of philosophical, scientific, and utopian texts edited by...
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The Unlikely Activists Who Took On Silicon Valley—and Won
@e_flux wrote: 19mag-facebook-image1-jumbo.jpg1024x623 129 KB In the New York Times, investigative reporter Nicholas Confessore tells the story of two California businessmen who turned themselves into...
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"It's An Insult, Yes": Okwui Enwezor on his Ignominious Farewell from Munich
@e_flux wrote: by Ulrike Knöfel This interview was originally published in German at Spiegel Online, August 17, 2018. Translation courtesy of Google Translate with cleanup by Peter Stein. Okwui...
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Kathi Weeks on "Constructing Feminist Subjects"
@e_flux wrote: Kathi Weeks.jpg1280x720 58.6 KB The Verso blog has an excerpt from the introduction to Kathi Weeks’s book Constituting Feminist Subjects. Originally published in 1998, the book advances...
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In Historical Reversal, Germany Is Teaching the US About Democracy
@e_flux wrote: trump-vs-merkel-GT.jpg900x600 56.3 KB In Mother Jones magazine, Martina Kix reports on a $20 million campaign that the German government will launch in the US this fall. The campaign...
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Pessimism Is The Only Option: New Books by Eugene Thacker and Roy Scranton
@e_flux wrote: Kierkegaard2.jpg1024x637 53.6 KB In the New York Times, John Williams reviews two new books about how to face our dire times: Infinite Resignation by Eugene Thacker and We’re Doomed....
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Fandom in the Age of Streaming Music
@e_flux wrote: Kanye-West-Ye.jpg1600x1200 203 KB In the web magazine Real Life, David Turner examines how the growth of streaming music services has fundamentally transformed the nature of fandom. In...
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Could “Social Wealth Funds” Be the Solution to Inequality?
@e_flux wrote: AP_18082624672695-1535476726.jpg1024x652 124 KB At The Intercept, Rachel M. Cohen explores the notion of “social wealth funds” as a solution to the radical inequality that plagues many...
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How a Child's Growing Mind Is Not Like a Computer
@e_flux wrote: David Auerbach is both an accomplished computer programmer and a skilled writer, so he’s in an ideal position to explain complex topics like AI and systems theory to laypeople. In his...
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The Mystery of People Who Speaks Dozens of Languages
@e_flux wrote: In the New Yorker, Judith Thurman has a fascinating piece about “hyperpolyglots”—people with an astounding capacity to learn new languages, who often speak a dozen or more fluently....
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How to Make Writing About Democracy More Democratic
@e_flux wrote: In the newly released Fall 2018 issue of Bookforum, filmmaker and activist Astra Taylor reflects on the voluminous reading she did while making her new documentary film, What Is...
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The Era of Cheap Energy Is Coming to an End
@e_flux wrote: oil derrick.jpg1200x799 113 KB At Motherboard, Nafeez Ahmed reports on a crucial new scientific paper prepared for the UN by a team of Finnish biophysicists. Among other things, the...
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Is Modern Technology Inimical to Democracy?
@e_flux wrote: In The Atlantic, Yuval Noah Harari argues that new technological innovations like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation are inherently destructive to democracy....
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"Against Belonging": A More Inclusive Ideal of the Bucolic
@e_flux wrote: DXi6SecW0AAZBxv.jpg830x467 58.8 KB In the UK music and culture magazine The Quietus, Tim Cooke reflects on the 2017 film Arcadia by Paul Wright, which uses archival footage to paint a...
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Francis Fukuyama Postpones the End of History
@e_flux wrote: In the New Yorker, Louis Menand examines Francis Fukuyama’s new book Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment—and he’s thoroughly unimpressed. Menand slams the...
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The Case for Feminist Rage
@e_flux wrote: article00_large.jpg960x1005 876 KB In the fall issue of Bookforum, Lidija Haas reflects on the new book Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger by US journalist Rebecca...
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Unlearning the Origins of Photography
@e_flux wrote: At the Verso blog, curator and theorist Ariella Azoulay has published an essay based on her book-in-progress Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism. Intriguingly, Azoulay proposes to...
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