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Alain Badiou: "We Are At a New Beginning of Marxist Thought"
@e_flux wrote: Badiou.jpg840x560 70.7 KB The Verso blog has posted a rich interview with Alain Badiou about the legacy of twentieth-century Marxism. Badiou defends Lenin and Mao against accusations of...
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"Populism Without the People": On Chantal Mouffe
@e_flux wrote: At the n+1 magazine website, Thea Riofrancos reviews Chantal Mouffe’s recent book For a Left Populism. Riofrancos finds the text oddly out of touch, stuck in a mid-twentieth-century...
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Fiction Rediscovers the Social World
@e_flux wrote: At the Los Angeles Review of Books, Sarah LaBrie surveys a handful of recent novels by US authors that engage with major social and political problems plaguing our crisis-ridden reality...
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Liberate Play From "Gamification"
@e_flux wrote: 1000x-1.jpg1000x666 97.3 KB The editorial to the upcoming issue of Logic, a quarterly magazine about technology and culture, reflects on different notions of “play,” from the aimless,...
View ArticleLetter of Resignation from Kunsthal Extra City Curators
@e_flux wrote: In lieu of a public announcement from the usual channels of Extra City in regards to our resignations that were handed in during the month of September, we—as asked by the...
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Evgeny Morozov: "The sharing economy fairytale has come to an end"
@e_flux wrote: Uber.jpg1225x735 106 KB In The Guardian, Evgeny Morozov proclaims the demise of the sharing economy “fairytale”—the idea that digital technology will empower grassroots economies and...
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Rescuing "Emotional Labor" from Buzzword Vagueness
@e_flux wrote: The Tidy Kitchen.jpg1064x1099 193 KB In the newly released December–January issue of Bookforum, Charlotte Shane reviews Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward by Gemma...
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"US hegemony is no longer possible"
@e_flux wrote: Eurozine-Birnbaum-crop.jpg1894x1028 533 KB In Eurozine, sociologist and professor emeritus Norman Birnbaum dissects the end of US global hegemony, a development brought about by the...
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The Demise of Truth Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
@e_flux wrote: rnzfrf9b7fjy.jpg4032x3024 1.1 MB In Real Life magazine, Nathan Jurgenson argues that the death of truth, which has been declared by countless pundits and newspaper articles referencing...
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From Women’s Strikes to a New Class Movement
@e_flux wrote: In Viewpoint magazine, philosopher and activist Cinzia Arruzza reflects on the wave of feminist activism and women’s strikes that have swept the globe in recent years, asking how these...
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On the Contemporary Gothic
@e_flux wrote: MAIN_GettyImages-3172251.ngsversion.1512625999535.adapt.1900.1.jpg1900x1220 361 KB In the Los Angeles Review of Books, Adam Fales reviews three recent books—two novels and one “poetry...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to DJ Spooky on Performing in Cuba
@e_flux wrote: Dear DJ Spooky, It was announced yesterday in Diario de Cuba what you will be traveling to Cuba next week to perform in the Eyeife Electronic Music Festival. I am sure you know it’s...
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Angela Mitropoulos: "Lifeboat Capitalism, Catastrophism, Borders"
@e_flux wrote: ap-17053423896158-1070x713.jpg1070x713 322 KB Launched this fall, Dispatches is a new online radical journal edited by Gean Moreno and Natalia Zuluaga, with all articles published in...
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Notes on the “Yellow Vests” Movement in France
@e_flux wrote: protestors-are-pictured-during-36b8-diaporama-1024x656.jpg1024x656 114 KB For weeks now, the “yellow vest” (gilets jaunes) uprising has rocked France. Initially trigger by a proposed...
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Why an Age of Machine Learning Needs the Humanities
@e_flux wrote: franck-v-516603-unsplash-1024x768.jpg1024x768 109 KB At Public Books, Ted Underwood defends the humanities against charges of irrelevance in an increasingly technological, commodified,...
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Anti-Anti-Antifa: A Brief History of Anti-Fascist Resistance
@e_flux wrote: At the website of the recently launched Commune magazine, A. M. Gittlitz offers a brief history of anti-fascist resistance in Europe in the US, arguing that the contemporary...
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Negri on the the Gilets Jaunes and "Dual Power"
@e_flux wrote: The Verso blog has translated a piece by Antonio Negri analyzing the novelty and transformative potential of the gilets jaunes (“yellow vest”) uprising in France. As Negri writes, the...
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The State Will Not Save Us From Climate Change
@e_flux wrote: Paris-climate-protest-2018-1024x683.jpg1024x683 153 KB At Public Books, geographers Geoff Mann and Joel Wainwright, who coauthored the recent book Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory...
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Arthur Jafa's New Film "The White Album"
@e_flux wrote: Jaffa.jpg1225x735 127 KB In The Guardian, Ruth Gebreyesus talks to US filmmaker and artist Arthur Jafa, whose new film, The White Album, debuts this week at the Berkeley Art Museum and...
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The Militant Pulp Feminism of Virginie Despentes
@e_flux wrote: virginie-despentes.jpg1000x500 63.8 KB In the current issue of Bookforum, Lauren Oyler profiles French writer and filmmaker Virginie Despentes, whose art mixes radical theory with a...
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