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McKenzie Wark on Elizabeth Povinelli
@e_flux wrote: elizabeth_povinelli_e-flux.jpg1440x1006 211 KB At the Verso blog, McKenzie Wark examines the recent work of anti-colonial anthropologist Elizabeth Povinelli, specifically her writing on...
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Economics Beyond Market Fundamentalism
@e_flux wrote: In the Boston Review, economists Suresh Naidu, Dani Rodrik, and Gabriel Zucman examine what they term a “creative ferment” within academic economics that is nudging the field toward...
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The "Colonial Cartography" of Google Maps
@e_flux wrote: At Real Life, Apoorva Tadepalli examines the ways that maps, historically used by state power to claim and represent territory, have changed in the age of online mapping tools like...
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What Do We Mean by the "People's Will"?
@e_flux wrote: Brexit.jpg2880x1917 392 KB At the Verso blog, political philosopher Peter Hallward reflects on the notion of the “people’s will” in the context of the Brexit drama in the UK. As...
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Indonesian Collective ruangrupa Selected as Artistic Director of Documenta 15
@e_flux wrote: 05_ruangrupa_Photo-Gudskul_Jin-Panji_2019-102.width-2480.jpg1024x683 157 KB As reported on the CIMAM website, Documenta has taken a new approach with its selection of artistic director...
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Kunsthalle Lissabon, Decrying Gentrification, Marks 10th Anniversary by...
@e_flux wrote: Kunsthalle Lissabon, an independent gallery in Portugal’s capital, marks ten years of existence in 2019—a significant achievement for a small art institution. In a statement on their...
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The Virtues of Quiet Withdrawal
@e_flux wrote: Angelico-Silence.jpg700x514 259 KB At the Baffler website, Maddie Crum examines two recent books that explore the virtues of silence and invisibility in an era of nonstop chatter and...
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Rescuing Cynic Philosophy from Right-Wing Trolls
@e_flux wrote: peters.jpg1403x742 266 KB In Logic magazine, John Durham Peters reflects on how the Cynic philosophical tradition has been appropriated and distorted by right-wing trolls. Peters...
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What Could the Internet Have Been?
@e_flux wrote: At Public Books, Marta Figlerowicz reviews two books that offer “counter-histories of the internet” from different perspectives: Designing an Internet by David D. Clark looks at the...
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Concrete as Utopian Building Material
@e_flux wrote: Khrushchevka.jpg1240x744 85.7 KB In The Guardian, architectural historian Adrian Forty looks at the surprisingly progressive history of concrete, which was invented in 1861 and slowly...
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Against the Fetish of "Clarity" in Writing
@e_flux wrote: george-orwell-e1529898081870.jpg858x514 67.3 KB In Salvage journal, Richard Seymour has a fascinating, masterful essay that challenges the conventional wisdom, propounded most famously...
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Jean-Luc Nancy on Populism, Democracy, and Neofascism
@e_flux wrote: jean-luc-nancy-2010-3.jpg924x693 235 KB The LA Review of Books has translated two recent short essays by French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, one called “Populism and Democracy” and the...
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Alina Popa: "Disease as an Aesthetic Project "
@e_flux wrote: 5 7.jpg1600×1600 251 KB Introduction: Alina, Jaguar by Florin Flueras “Disease as an Aesthetic Project” was put together by Alina from her recent notes and sent to a group of friends....
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Embracing the Contradictions in Foucault's Work
@e_flux wrote: Foucault.jpg2000×1126 415 KB At the Verso blog, social theorist and Foucault scholar Thomas Lemke reflects on the apparent contradictions, both theoretical and political, that...
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How Did Humanism Die?
@e_flux wrote: Piero-di-Cosimo_Hunting-Scene-detail-1140x826.jpg1140×826 170 KB At Public Books, literary scholar Christopher Nealon reviews three books that strive to explain, from different...
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At Chobi Mela Photography Festival, Arundhati Roy Talk Goes Ahead Despite...
@e_flux wrote: Roy.jpg1600×960 279 KB FOR URGENT RELEASE: ARUNDHATI ROY PUBLIC TALK IN DHAKA GOING AHEAD DESPITE PERMISSION REVOKED BY DHAKA METROPOLITAN POLICE 5th March 2019 Dhaka, Bangladesh At...
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From Climate Denial to Climate Depression
@e_flux wrote: Riederer-DWWClimateChangeBook.jpg2046×1363 347 KB In the New Yorker, Rachel Riederer explores a less discussed aspect of the human reckoning with climate change: individual...
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The Necessity of Being Judgmental: On the Writings of Mark Fisher
@e_flux wrote: mark.jpg940×736 89.3 KB In the LA Review of Books, Roger Luckhurst reviews The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher, recently published by Repeater Books. Luckhurst...
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On Engaged Anthropology
@e_flux wrote: Captain-Margriet-Fergus-1140x855.jpg1140×855 150 KB At Public Books, Christopher Loperena interviews anthropologist Stuart Kirsch, who Loperena describes as “one of very few...
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The Role of Urban Planning in the Maintenance of Capitalism
@e_flux wrote: brooklyn_development.jpg1200×800 204 KB The Verso blog has an excerpt from the new book Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State by Sam Stein, which is part of Verso’s...
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