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Negri on the Resurgent Global Far Right
@e_flux wrote: The Verso blog has a reflection from Negri that was sparked by the election of hard-right politician Jair Bolsonaro to the presidency of Brazil. Negri puts Bolsonaro’s victory in the...
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The Radical History (and Future?) of Rural America
@e_flux wrote: In the Boston Review, historian Elizabeth Catte pushes back against the characterization of rural America as “Trump country” and the assumption that such areas are devoid of radical...
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We Can Do Better Than Gender-Naturalizing Feminism
@e_flux wrote: Egymásra nézve.jpg1500x946 373 KB In The New Inquiry, Sophie Lewis reviews Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence by Kristen R....
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Online Advertising: The Art of Eyeball Harvesting
@e_flux wrote: Facebook ads.jpg1200x630 177 KB Logic magazine interviews behavioral economist Shengwu Li about the opaque, creepy world of online advertising. Li explains how platforms like Google and...
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A History of Unorthodox Ideas
@e_flux wrote: Outsider Theory.jpg640x640 113 KB In the Los Angeles Review of Books, literary scholar Gayle Rogers reviews Outsider Theory: Intellectual Histories of Unorthodox Ideas by Jonathan P....
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"Yellow-Vest Diaries": A View From the Streets of France
@e_flux wrote: In Commune magazine, Rona Lorimer provides an absorbing on-the-ground account of recent “gilet jaune” (yellow vest) protests in France, which have been going on weekly for almost two...
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How "Surveillance Capitalism" Is Different From Previous Forms of Capitalism
@e_flux wrote: Guardian.jpg2250x1350 609 KB In The Guardian, John Naughton interviews scholar of business administration Shoshana Zuboff, whose highly anticipated new book The Age of Surveillance...
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Love and Sex in the Age of Data
@e_flux wrote: C_okc_dtf_hero11.jpg890x576 166 KB In the Los Angeles Review of Books, media theorist Alfie Bown examines how data-driven technologies, from dating apps to sex robots, are reshaping...
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Meet Europe’s Left Nationalists
@e_flux wrote: In The Nation, David Adler examines the nationalist tendencies of several prominent politicians on the European left, including Jeremy Corbyn in the UK, Jean-Luc Mélenchon in France,...
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Democracy as the "Never-Ending Fight for a More Democratic Life"
@e_flux wrote: WhatisDemocracy_web.jpg1000x563 456 KB At the Baffler website, Maximillian Alvarez reflects on Astra Taylor’s acclaimed new documentary, What Is Democracy? Alvarez notes how the...
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The Banality of Empire: On the Ordinary Lives of Brits in India
@e_flux wrote: Brits in India.jpg768x556 63.2 KB At Public Books, Katherine Anderson, a scholar of Victorian literature and culture, reviews The British in India: A Social History of the Raj (2018) by...
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The Return of Andrea Dworkin’s Radical Vision
@e_flux wrote: In the February/March issue of Bookforum, Moira Donegan reviews a new book from Semiotext(e): Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin, edited by Johanna Fateman...
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Was Architecture Better Under Socialism?
@e_flux wrote: Belgrade Fair.jpg1024x723 202 KB In the Boston Review, Anthony Paletta reviews the recent MoMA exhibit “Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia 1948–1980.” Paletta explains...
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How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
@e_flux wrote: The Fed.jpg1024x683 137 KB At the n+1 website, Jonathan Levy reviews Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by distinguished historian Adam Tooze. Levy’s review,...
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Rock Music and the Fantastic
@e_flux wrote: Hawkwind-In-Search-Of-Space-album-cover-web-optimised-820.jpg820x820 124 KB In the Los Angeles Review of Books, Rob Latham reviews two recent books that explore the intimate...
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Ideas for Changing Society
@e_flux wrote: DSA.jpg2048x1366 360 KB In the online journal Blind Field, Noah Zazanis reviews We Can Do Better: Ideas for Changing Society by David Camfield, a book that seeks to provide an...
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The Origins of our Polluted Present
@e_flux wrote: watt-steam-engine-864.jpg864x641 101 KB In The Nation, eminent environmentalist and writer Bill McKibben reviews three recent books that aim to explain how we arrived at our historical...
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McKenzie Wark on "A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None"
@e_flux wrote: Kathryn Yusoff_BBA.jpg428x600 21.3 KB At the Verso blog, McKenzie Wark delves into an intriguing book published recently by University of Minnesota Press: A Billion Black Anthropocenes...
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Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
@e_flux wrote: Zuck.jpg1064x747 79.5 KB In the current issue of Bookforum, Ava Kofman reviews Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe by Roger McNamee, an early investor in Facebook who has...
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Posthumanism for Regular Humans
@e_flux wrote: Stalker.jpg1366x768 259 KB In the Los Angeles Review of Books, Aaron Winslow reviews The Human Reimagined: Posthumanism in Russia, edited by Colleen McQuillen and Julia Vaingurt. At a...
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