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A Short, Depressing History of Venture Capital
@e_flux wrote: Rust_Belt_1.jpg1200x800 182 KB At the Logic magazine website, Nick Serpe offers a short history of venture capital in the US, from its infancy in the period following WWII to its...
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Ferrante on Fascism
@e_flux wrote: My Brilliant Friend.jpeg1200x675 129 KB In the Los Angeles Review of Books, Tessa Brown reflects on HBO’s recent TV adaption of Elena Ferrante’s wildly popular novel My Brilliant...
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Cathy O'Neil: "A History of Cyborg Sex, 2018–73"
@e_flux wrote: In the Boston Review, data scientist and writer Cathy O’Neil imagines a tongue-in-cheek future scenario in which sex between humans is fully replaced by sex between humans and robots....
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"Five Notes on the Yellow Vest Movement"
@e_flux wrote: yellow-vests.jpg1085x606 181 KB At Popula, radical theorist Joshua Clover offers “Five Notes on the Yellow Vest Movement,” as the uprising transitions from weekly marches and blockades...
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The Life and Work of John Berger
@e_flux wrote: John_Berger.jpg1050x700 70.9 KB Influential art critic and novelist John Berger died last year after a long and eclectic life. In the Los Angeles Review of Books, Robert Minto reviews...
View ArticleJoint Statement Promoting Safe Spaces Within the South Asian Arts Community
@e_flux wrote: As active stakeholders in the South Asian arts community, we are concerned by the growing number of allegations of sexual harassment and reports of hostile work environments. These are...
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How Britain stole $45 trillion from India
@e_flux wrote: At Al Jazeera, anthropologist Jason Hickel writes about new research that attempts to calculate the amount of wealth that Britain expropriated from India during its 173 years of...
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Silvia Federici: “They say it is love. We say it is unwaged work.”
@e_flux wrote: In the Boston Review, Jill Richards interviews influential theorist and radical feminist Silvia Federici. Federici reflects on the groundbreaking Wages for Housework campaign she help...
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How Facebook Undermines DIY Cultural Spaces
@e_flux wrote: In Logic magazine, music critic Liz Pelly writes about the fate of Silent Barn, a treasured DIY music and arts venue in Brooklyn that had to close its doors in 2018. Alongside the...
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How to Think About Empire: An Interview with Arundhati Roy
@e_flux wrote: arundhatiroy.jpg968x645 61.7 KB In the Boston Review, Avni Sejpal interviews celebrated Indian novelist and activisit Arundhati Roy. Last year Roy published her second novel, The...
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CIMAM Statement About Osman Kavala and Turkish Cultural Professionals
@pelin wrote: 7_9-12subatvardiya3.width-2480.jpg1600x1200 261 KB The following statement is reposted from cimam.org The civil society activist and philanthropist Osman Kavala has been held in prison...
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The Essence of the Essay Is That It Has No Essence
@e_flux wrote: Dillon.jpg1000x665 75.1 KB At Public Books, literature scholar Max Norman reviews Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction by Irish critic Brian Dillon. Norman commends Dillon for not...
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"This is what extinction feels like from the inside"
@e_flux wrote: Harvey.jpg920x516 27.7 KB One of the most compelling parts of each issue of n+1 magazine is “The Intellectual Situation,” a section in which the magazine’s editors grapple with the most...
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Rosa Luxemburg's Last Letter
@e_flux wrote: On this day one hundred years ago, Rosa Luxemburg, German Marxist and tireless revolutionary, was murdered by Freikorps troops, along with her longtime friend and fellow revolutionary...
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The Rise of the Mindful Museum
@e_flux wrote: csm_mindful_awareness_37dfeeec2a.jpg2400x1148 76.6 KB At The Baffler website, Michael Friedrich examines the trend of “mindfulness” programs offered by prominent museums across the US,...
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The Nietzsche We Thought We Knew
@e_flux wrote: friedrich-nietzsche.jpg1920x1080 277 KB At the Bookforum website, Maria Dimitrova reviews I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Nietzsche by Sue Prideaux, which manages to provide a fresh...
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BAD BARCODE: NYC Cultural Workers Against Amazon
@e_flux wrote: BBC_Image_1.jpg1224x1584 373 KB Image credit: Kenneth Pietrobono The following text is the Introduction to the research dossier “BAD BARCODE: NYC Cultural Workers Against Amazon.” We...
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Urban Planning Needs to Re-Center the Human
@e_flux wrote: corbusier.jpg800x600 177 KB In the web magazine Real Life, David A. Banks offers a brief history of urban planning as a discipline, tracing its utopian origins, its taming...
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Podcasts and the Authoritarian Voice
@e_flux wrote: The Daily.jpg1000x669 93.9 KB Open Space is San Francisco MoMA’s online magazine and “commissioning platform.” In a unique gesture, it regularly allows artists and writers to use the...
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Ending the Anthropocene
@e_flux wrote: hurricanes-irma.jpg900x548 103 KB At Public Books, political theorist Claire Sagan enumerates the shortcomings of the term “Anthropocene” and its associated discourse. Among these...
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