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The Curator: Friend or Foe?
@e_flux wrote: KAB18.jpg4288×2848 914 KB In the Ugandan magazine The Independent, critic Dominic Muwanguzi reflects on the controversy that erupted after the 2018 Kampala Art Biennale (KAB18), when...
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What Comes After the End of the US World Order?
@e_flux wrote: White House.jpg1024×683 145 KB At the website of The Nation magazine, historian Alfred McCoy sets out to define what constitutes a “world order.” He then argues that modern history has...
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Fighting Repression in Turkey with Cosmic Pop Music
@e_flux wrote: gsa4.jpg980×551 144 KB Gaye Su Akyol is a Turkish musician who takes a surreal, whimsical, and politically potent approach to pop music. Her most recent album is recent album is...
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Message from Osman Kavala upon Completion of his 500th Day in Prison
@e_flux wrote: Osman Kavala, a prominent Turkish businessman and civil society activist, has been imprisoned in his home country since October 2017. Referred to by President Erdogan as “Turkey’s...
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Barbara Hammer on Dying with Dignity
@e_flux wrote: Gessen-BarbaraHammer.jpg2560×2195 777 KB Barbara Hammer, pioneering experimental filmmaker, died over the weekend after a long battle with cancer. One of her last interviews was with...
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The Unbearable Boredom of Imperialism
@e_flux wrote: white-man-boredom.jpg1200×640 69.1 KB At the New Inquiry, Padraic X. Scanlan reviews Imperial Boredom: Monotony and the British Empire by historian Jeffrey Auerbach, a fascinating book...
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How the US Government Used Avant-Garde Literature as Soft Power
@e_flux wrote: chambers_collage_1.jpg1200×868 56.6 KB In the boundary 2 review, an online publication associated with the humanities journal boundary 2, literary scholar Rob Wilson reviews Du Bois’s...
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We Need to Talk About Social Practice
@e_flux wrote: gramsci_monument.jpg1024×683 234 KB At Art Practical, manuel arturo abreu critiques the political blindspots and ethical failures of social practice art. Emphasizing that good...
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Global Black Consciounsess & Contemporary African Art
@e_flux wrote: Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art is a biannual academic journal the seeks to remedy the dearth of discussion on African and African diaspora art in contemporary art discourse....
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Lauren Berlant on the Subversiveness of Comedy
@e_flux wrote: At the New Inquiry, Charlie Markbreiter interviews Lauren Berlant about “non-sovereign relationality” and the subversiveness of comedy. Berlant also reflects on why trans people are so...
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Carnival in Bolsonaro's Brazil
@e_flux wrote: Captura-de-Tela-2019-02-25-às-21.26.42-1024x585.jpg1024×585 247 KB At the Baffler website, Sammy Feldblum reports from the first Carnival celebration in Brazil since the election of...
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The End of the End of History
@e_flux wrote: In the Boston Review, historian Maximillian Alvarez reflects on how Francis Fukuyama’s “end of history” thesis has been discredited by the global turmoil and economic instability of the...
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Jack Halberstam on Wildness, Anarchy, and Growing Up Punk
@e_flux wrote: At Public Books, Damon R. Young interviews gender studies icon Jack Halberstam. The interview convers Halberstam’s early intellectual formation as a Victorian scholar, and touches on...
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Bifo on Hito Steyerl's Book "Duty Free Art"
@e_flux wrote: Hito.jpg1280×720 86.8 KB At the Verso blog, Franco “Bifo” Berardi responds to Hito Steyerl’s recent book Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War. Bifo reflects on the...
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San Francisco; or, How to Destroy a City
@e_flux wrote: SF.jpg1880×1128 219 KB At Public Books, Shannon Mattern reviews a handful of books that seek to understand how the ideology and economy of Silicon Valley has reshaped the politics,...
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Which Xenofeminism?
@e_flux wrote: In the British socialist magazine Red Pepper, Sophie Lewis examines the far-reaching influence of xenofeminism four years after the publication of the Xenofeminist Manifesto. Noting...
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Alain Badiou on Left Nationalism, Macron, and the Gilets Jaunes
@e_flux wrote: alain-badiou-2009-5.jpg924×693 209 KB The Verso blog has a translation of a wide-ranging interview with Alain Badiou in which he discusses his most recent philosophical book, Emmanuel...
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How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
@e_flux wrote: Rose Garden.jpg1600×1200 770 KB How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy is a new book by Jenny Odell, an artist and writer who teaches digital arts at Stanford University. In...
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Extinction Rebellion: A New Paradigm for Climate-Change Activism
@e_flux wrote: Extinction Rebellion.jpg1000×613 106 KB At The Baffler website, Robert Raymond profiles the new activist group Extinction Rebellion, which aims to bring more urgent rhetoric and more...
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Reclaiming the Internet’s Utopian Potential in an Unlikely Place
@e_flux wrote: ChattanoogaTN-OvercastDowntown.jpg1000×667 240 KB In Logic magazine, Evan Malmgren profiles an innovative public infrastructure project in an unlikely place: Chattanooga, Tennessee, a...
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