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Alexander R. Galloway on the Complacency of Bruno Latour
@e_flux wrote: bruno_latour_by_brunobizu-d76pikj.jpg1095x730 82.5 KB At his blog, Alexander R. Galloway dissects the popularity of Bruno Latour and argues that he is ultimately a conservative thinker...
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The Art Party: A Sci-Fi Story (Part 1)
@e_flux wrote: Art_Party_Steppingout.jpg2481x3494 3.14 MB by Noah Fischer The sun was beginning to set through the Kushner City towers in Jersey City, scattering light onto the Hudson. It was...
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Climate Change and the Humanity-Nature "Mesh"
@e_flux wrote: At Public Books, Nathaniel Popkin reflects on how the pervasive belief that humans are separate and distinct from the natural world, rather then deeply enmeshed in it, underlies our...
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The Art Party: A Sci-Fi Story (Part 2: Election Day 2032)
@e_flux wrote: Art_Party_Snake_digital.jpg2612x3894 6.02 MB by Noah Fischer Continued from Part 1 The sky was turning pink and orange through the luxury tower window. The polls would close in less...
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The Art Party: A Sci-Fi Story (Part 3: Election Victory)
@e_flux wrote: Art_Party_3b.jpg2611x3536 5.46 MB Continued from Part 1 and Part 2 by Noah Fischer During five months of constant meetings in the basement of the Brooklyn Army Terminal, the coalition...
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Fredric Jameson Reviews Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle
@e_flux wrote: In the London Review of Books, Fredric Jameson reviews the sixth and final book in Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle series, an unexpected literary sensation that has been translated...
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"Tapping into the unrealized futures of the past"
@e_flux wrote: In the November issue of the Brooklyn Rail, Pavlos Roufos talks to historian Quinn Slobodian, whose most recent book is Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism...
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Against Apocalyptic Climate Reporting
@e_flux wrote: german-climate-protestors_ap_ba.jpg1440x907 273 KB In The Nation, sociologist Daniel Aldana Cohen denounces the one-sided reporting on climate change in the mainstream media, especially...
View ArticleProgrès social : « Alternatives pragmatiques pour promouvoir la justice sociale.
@pelin wrote: https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2018/11/02/progres-social-alternatives-pragmatiques-pour-promouvoir-la-justice-sociale-et-preserver-l-environnement_5378198_3232.html? Posts: 1...
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A Cult-Classic Novel of French Bohemia Is Translated into English for the...
@e_flux wrote: At the Bookforum website, Hannah Stamler celebrates the translation into English for the first time of French author Jean-Jacques Schuhl’s cult-classic novel Dusty Pink (Rose...
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Pankaj Mishra: "The answer to the many problems of democracy should never be...
@e_flux wrote: mishra.jpg3152x1970 2.83 MB For many years now Indian essayist and novelist Pankaj Mishra has been among the most astute critics of Western hegemony and liberal capitalism in the...
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To Combat Ubiquitous Surveillance, Make Privacy Public
@e_flux1 wrote: In Real Life magazine, technology writer L. M. Sacasas suggests that our tendency to shrug and just going along with ubiquitous surveillance—from social media, our phones, and home...
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“Like a prayer”: In Memory of Zak Kostopoulos
@e_flux wrote: zak-kostopoulos.jpg1200x790 47.1 KB by Dimitris Alexakis The scene has been captured with a mobile phone, from above and several meters away, and the image quality is low. A rather tall...
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Giorgio Agamben's New Books on How to Live
@e_flux wrote: Agamben death small.jpg1144x904 633 KB In the New Inquiry, Adam Kotsko reviews two new books by Giorgio Agamben, The Adventure and Pulcinella: Or Entertainment for Children, the first...
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Climate-Change Fiction Challenges the Conventions of Literary Form
@e_flux wrote: Waldman-Climate-Change-Fiction.jpg1023x682 45.5 KB Anxiety about climate change has crept into nearly every area of popular culture, from movies to television to music. It has also...
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The Renewed Relevance of Sartre's Existentialist Marxism
@e_flux wrote: Sartre.jpg674x506 87.6 KB In the Boston Review, philosopher Ronald Aronson aims to revive the existentialist Marxism of Jean-Paul Sartre, which seems like a relic from a bygone age....
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Upending the "Nature vs. Nurture" Debate
@e_flux wrote: Nature-and-Nurture-1024x787.jpg1024x787 153 KB At Public Books, sociologist Maurizio Meloni explains the far-reaching social implications of the scientific field of epigenetics, which...
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"The Banality of Postmodern Labor": On the Memoir of an Amazon Warehouse Worker
@e_flux wrote: Amazon.jpg1064x688 337 KB In Bookforum, journalist Jesse Baron reviews Seasonal Associate (Semiotexte, 2018) by German writer Heike Geissler, a startling account of the author’s six...
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"Beyond the Green New Deal": Building a Global Energy System of the People
@e_flux wrote: GettyImages-538954088-1160x766.jpg1160x766 110 KB In the current issue of the Brooklyn Rail, sociologist Max Ajl takes a critical view of calls for a global “Green New Deal,” which...
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The False Distinction Between “Migrant” and “Refugee”
@e_flux wrote: Gessen-Trump-Asylum-Proclamation-2.jpg1023x682 159 KB In the wake of Donald Trump’s recent xenophobic narrowing of the criteria for people to seek asylum in the US, the New Yorker’s...
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