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Jeff VanderMeer on an Unjustly Forgotten Sci-Fi Genius
@e_flux wrote: moderan-pavel-tchelitchew.jpg1280x952 926 KB At the New York Review of Books website, celebrated sci-fi author Jeff VanderMeer writes about a fellow sci-fi author active in the 1960s...
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What Are the Limits of Freedom of Speech?
@e_flux wrote: The Boston Review has an excerpt from a new book by philosopher Jason Stanley entitled How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them. In the excerpt, Stanley examines one of the most...
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Polarization in Poland Is a Bellwether for Europe and the World
@e_flux wrote: c5901f24c.jpg960x540 180 KB In The Atlantic , historian Anne Applebaum offers a detailed and harrowing account of how Poland evolved from an emerging liberal-democratic country in the...
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Cultural Workers Unite!: A Plea for a Voluntary Artist Solidarity Fund (ASF)
@e_flux wrote: by Michael Hirsch and Kilian Jörg 1. Economic inequality and precarity are growing at an alarming rate, and political countermovements remain far behind in raising strong opposition to...
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The Illusion of Non-Capitalist Spaces
@e_flux wrote: instareadingfull-1-of-1-1060x706.jpg1060x706 104 KB At Public Seminar, sociologist Victor Lund Shammas reflects on the spaces and moments in our lives that seem relatively removed from...
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Stefano Harney and Fred Moten Reflect on the Spanish Translation of "The...
@e_flux wrote: lebowski-002.jpg2048x1536 798 KB Stefano Harney and Fred Moten published their coauthored book The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study in 2013. It would go on to become...
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Report: "When Financial Products Shape Cultural Content"
@e_flux wrote: bull.jpg760x507 142 KB Art Institutions of the 21st Century is a not-for-profit foundation created in 2017 to research and promote the economic and social conditions that support a...
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Sketching Out a "Degrowth" Future
@e_flux wrote: industry.jpg700x515 91.6 KB In the September 2018 issue of the Brooklyn Rail, Max Ajl offers a deep dive into the book In Defense of Degrowth (2018) by Giorgos Kallis, a theorist and...
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The Rise of the Inequality Industry
@e_flux wrote: Davos.jpg1024x619 396 KB In The Nation, Atossa Araxia Abrahamian traces the history of economic inequality as a political issue in the US, from the time it was a niche interest up to...
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The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media
@e_flux wrote: OConnell-The-Deliberate-Awfulness-of-Social-Media.jpg1023x529 33.5 KB The New Yorker, Mark O’Connell reviews two recent books that express extreme pessimism about the role of social...
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Paul Virilio's Legacy
@e_flux wrote: paul-virilio-2007-6.jpg924x693 335 KB As has been widely reported, influential French philosopher Paul Virilio passed away earlier this week at the age of eight-six. At the Verso blog,...
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The Modern City as Augmented Reality
@e_flux wrote: Freedom Tower.jpg1400x797 90.8 KB At Real Life, Apoorva Tadepalli examines the modern city—with it’s climate-controlled office buildings and sleek skyscrapers that reflect the sky—as a...
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Machine Learning and the Project of Autonomy
@e_flux wrote: Cornelius Castoriadis.jpg960x611 95.9 KB At Public Seminar, philosopher Conrad Moriarty-Cole uses the work of Greek-French theorist Cornelius Castoriadis (1922–97) to ask if the...
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Open Letter to the Serralves Foundation on the Censorship of "Robert...
@e_flux wrote: SelfPortrait_3_gm_336210011.jpg1000x778 262 KB Robert Mapplethorpe, Untitled (Self-Portrait), ca. 1974. Via mapplethorpe.la. (This open letter originally appeared here.) Dear Ana Pinho,...
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Manifesto on Algorithmic Humanitarianism
@e_flux wrote: Humanitarian-NGO-Tent-in-Abu-Shouk-Camp.jpg1135x600 279 KB At Open Democracy, Dan McQuillan offers a “Manifesto on Algorithmic Humanitarianism.” It begins by observing that...
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Cuban Artists and Intellectuals Denounce "Decree 349"
@e_flux wrote: article0_large.jpg960x562 54.3 KB A few months ago the Cuban government publicly released the text of a draconian new decree that targets the country’s artistic community. Called...
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Open Letter Regarding Lack of Diversity in NRW Forum Exhibition
@e_flux wrote: No More Dick Soup.jpg598x596 60.4 KB Since the list of artists to be featured in an “international group exhibition” at the NRW Forum in Düsseldorf became public on September 11, 2018,...
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Politicizing Motherhood and Childbirth
@e_flux wrote: motherandchild-1140x857.jpg1140x857 172 KB At Public Books, literature scholar Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan reviews Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of...
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The Detroit Undercommons
@e_flux wrote: mcghee1_web1.jpg800x533 303 KB At Open Space, the blog of San Francisco MoMA, writer and curator Taylor Renee Aldridge reflects on the under-the-radar art and activist communities that...
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Against Capitalist "Creativity"
@e_flux wrote: Jack-Coulter-Synesthesia-Huck-C1.jpg3840x2240 962 KB At Real Life, David A. Banks reviews a new book out from Verso, Against Creativity by Oli Mould. The book examines how “creativity”...
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