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Algorithmic Governance Is Spreading
@e_flux wrote: SCS.jpg819×467 155 KB In the Boston Review, legal scholar Frank Pasquale reflects on the dangers of “algorithmic governance,” a model in which government uses surveillance, tracking,...
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How "Good Design" Failed Us
@e_flux wrote: Saval-Good-Design_02.jpg2000×1333 218 KB At the New Yorker website, Nikil Saval reflects on a small exhibition, entitled “The Value of Good Design,” currently on view at MoMA. Noting...
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How Migration Challenges Our Assumptions About Community, Belonging, and...
@e_flux wrote: Migration.jpg1140×759 210 KB At Public Books, sociologist David Cook-Martín shows how migration forces us to rethink conventional understandings of community and belonging. As...
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The Empty Promises of the Ride-Sharing Economy
@e_flux wrote: The week before last, Lyft became a publicly traded company, with an IPO valued at $24.3 billion. It’s the first of the major “sharing economy” companies to do so, with Uber and Airbnb...
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The Rise of Feminist Horror Fiction
@e_flux wrote: Post45 is a radical academic journal published by a collective of US-based scholars focused on post-WWII American literature and culture. In addition to the journal, the group...
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Outsider Publishing and Capitalist Realism Today
@e_flux wrote: tariq-goddard.jpg1000×562 119 KB At the website of The Point, a left-leaning journal of politics and culture based in Chicago, Ben Jeffery interviews novelist and publisher Tariq...
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Statement from Forensic Architecture on the Arrest of Julian Assange
@e_flux wrote: On Thursday, police officers arrested Julian Assange after forcibly removing him from the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he had been holed up for nearly seven years. This occurred...
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Masha Gessen: "How to Resist Validating Trump's View of Sanctuary Cities"
@e_flux wrote: Gessen-TrumpSanctuaryCities.jpg2046×1364 420 KB At the New Yorker website, Masha Gessen examines the dubious press coverage of Donald Trump’s threat last week to transport immigrant...
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"Isolation, being solitary, is very important to me": An Interview with...
@e_flux wrote: FHPCG0HO.jpg1200×818 114 KB The Believer magazine has an interview with performance artist Tehching Hsieh, who is know for works that involve extreme endurance and self-control. For...
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Resisting Apocalyptic Interpretations of the Notre Dame Fire
@e_flux wrote: 59f9f494c53c7142747f487b38aeb9998c5a5ac2.jpg1800×1200 254 KB In the New Republic, law professor and writer Jedediah Britton-Purdy counsel’s against searching for deeper meaning in the...
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The Social Novel at the End of Society
@e_flux wrote: In the current issue of The Baffler magazine, Lucy Ives examines the state of the social novel in US fiction at a time when American society seems to be growing less comprehensible,...
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Why Data Science Is a Profound Threat for Queer People
@e_flux wrote: Ex}•t_Hans_T_Oursler-3.jpg2500×1768 337 KB In the magazine Real Life, tech and gender theorist Os Keyes argues that data science is fundamentally inimical to the safety and recognition...
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The Book on Marx That Arendt Never Finished
@e_flux wrote: In the Boston Review, scholar of German studies Geoffrey Wildanger evaluates Hannah Arendt’s posthumous book Karl Marx and the Tradition of Political Thought. Assembled from the...
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The Daily Routines of Women Writers and Artists
@e_flux wrote: article00_large.jpg1064×710 200 KB In recent years books, articles, and blog posts about the daily lives and working routines of famous artists and writers have become something of a...
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Gossip and Feminist Solidarity
@e_flux wrote: At the Verso blog, Emily Janakiram explores how gossip—that feminized type of informal, covert communication—has been integral to recent displays of mass female solidarity, such as the...
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Alberto Toscano: "Observations on Capitalist Folklore"
@e_flux wrote: In Viewpoint magazine, Alberto Toscano examines Antonio Gramsci’s writings on folklore to help understand the present-day political gains of “late fascism,” as Toscano terms it....
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“Where Does Play End And Art Begin?”: Remembering Agnès Varda
@e_flux wrote: agnes-varda-obit-dead-2.jpg1000×562 274 KB In the UK music and culture magazine The Quietus, Robert Barry offers a poignant personal remembrance of French film giant Agnès Varda, who...
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"The Art of Unruliness": On Saidiya Hartman
@e_flux wrote: In the New Republic, Joanna Scutts reviews a remarkable new book by Saidiya Hartman, professor of African-American literature and history at Columbia University. Entitled Wayward Lives,...
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The Fiction of Convenience Makes Cities Less Livable
@e_flux wrote: In the web magazine Real Life, David A. Banks reflects on the almost limitless power of real estate capital to shape modern cities – not just the types of buildings that get built, but...
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The Return of the Surrealist Women
@e_flux wrote: Remedios_Varo_TheJuggler.jpg2000×1509 1.23 MB In the realms of literary publishing and art, there has lately been a resurgence of interest in the women of surrealism, who were largely...
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