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"Solidarity/Susceptibility": Judith Butler on the Work of José Esteban Muñoz
@e_flux wrote: The journal Social Text has published an adapted version of Judith Butler’s José Esteban Muñoz Memorial Lecture, delivered at New York University in February of last year. Muñoz was an...
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Philosopher Simon Critchley on the Tragic Condition of the World Today
@e_flux wrote: At the Los Angeles Review of Books, Brad Evans interviews philosopher Simon Critchley about the Ancient Greek conception of tragedy and what light it might shed on the upheavals of...
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Bill McKibben on a "Remarkable Political Moment for Climate Change"
@e_flux wrote: McKibben-PoliticalMoment.jpg2046×1403 744 KB In the New Yorker, writer and longtime environmental activist Bill McKibben suggests that we are currently in a promising political moment...
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Situating Critical Practice in China Today: An Interview with Professor Wang...
@e_flux wrote: National-Day-in-China.jpg960×600 228 KB The May 2019 issue of boundary 2, a journal of literature and culture, is dedicated to the theme “Critical Space and Contemporary China.”...
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Trevor Paglen on the Strange Fate of His Orbital Reflector Project
@e_flux wrote: 1_1QQWWDMXrIc_bMwKZP9eNQ.jpg1600×1285 112 KB At Medium, Trevor Paglen writes about his Orbital Reflector (OR) project, a “spacecraft/sculpture” designed to be launched into orbit and...
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Europe's Dangerous Creation Myth
@e_flux wrote: GettyImages-2666462-1160x846.jpg1160×846 178 KB At Politico Europe, historian Timothy Snyder deconstructs the creation myth of the modern-day European nation-state. According to Snyder,...
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McKenzie Wark on Radical Anthropologist Michael Taussig
@e_flux wrote: michael-taussig-2010-6.jpg924×693 202 KB In the May issue of the Brooklyn Rail, McKenzie Wark takes a deep dive into Palma Africana, a recent book by radical anthropologist Michael...
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A Novel for the End Times
@e_flux wrote: Giacomo Sartori.jpg1000×666 129 KB In the New Republic, historian James Livingston writes about a newly translated novel with an intriguing premise: God is the narrator, and he recounts...
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The Most Radical City on the Planet
@e_flux wrote: 503186-istock-577642470.jpg1100×618 157 KB The Deep South of the US is probably the last place anyone would expect to find a hotbed of political radicalism. But the city of Jackson, the...
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Against Advice
@e_flux wrote: Socrates.jpg800×600 108 KB At the website of the US journal The Point, philosopher Agnes Callard deconstructs the notion of advice – nuggets of supposed wisdom that promise to improve...
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Time’s Up for Capitalism. But What Comes Next?
@e_flux wrote: astra-taylor-img.jpg896×564 62.1 KB The Nation magazine has an excerpt from Democracy May Not Exist, But We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone, the new book by filmmaker, writer, and activist...
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Why 3508 Economists Are Probably Wrong About Climate Change
@e_flux wrote: In the latest issue of the Brooklyn Rail, political scientist José A. Tapia reflects on a statement published in the Wall Street Journal a few months ago and signed by 3508 prominent...
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Santiago Mostyn: "The Blind Spot of Swedish Art World Exceptionalism"
@e_flux wrote: MOSTYN_Citizen_Film_Still_01.jpg1920×1080 981 KB In the Nordic art magazine Kunstkritikk, Stockholm-based artist and curator Santiago Mostyn reflects on how the Swedish national...
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Eric Hobsbawm, the Communist Who Explained History
@e_flux wrote: Robin-Hobsbawm.jpg727×727 107 KB In the New Yorker, political theorist Corey Robin examines the life and work of Eric Hobsbawm, a British historian and towering Marxist intellectual who...
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Reinforcing Democracy in an Age of Creeping Authoritarianism
@e_flux wrote: The Boston Review has just launched a special project called “Democracy’s Promise,” which features essays and discussion forums about how to rethink and reinforce democracy in a age...
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Why Is the Selfie Such a Derided Form of Photography?
@e_flux wrote: 5a54008e3225de7d018b51d4-750-563.jpg750×563 55.4 KB The Verso blog has an excerpt from the recently published book The Social Photo: On Photography and Social Media by sociologist and...
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The Weird Intersection Between Environmentalism and Anti-Immigrant Politics
@e_flux wrote: 2422716044_d10eb43f00_b-e1557771588346.jpg964×636 176 KB At Public Books, environmental humanities scholar Christopher Schaberg revisits a 2015 book that was startlingly prescient about...
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A Writer of Our Time: On John Berger
@e_flux wrote: article00_1064x.jpg1064×813 106 KB In the April/May issue of Bookforum, Sasha Frere-Jones reviews A Writer of Our Time: The Life and Work of John Berger by Joshua Sperling. Berger died...
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"The truest portrait of female consciousness since Sappho"
@e_flux wrote: Ingeborg-Bachmann.jpg1488×753 106 KB In the New Yorker, novelist Rachel Kushner reflects on the novel Malina by the criminally underrecognized Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann...
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Alain Badiou: Lessons of the "Yellow Vests" Movement
@e_flux wrote: gilets-jaunes-fronde-170519-m_0.jpg1024×578 110 KB At the Verso blog, Alain Badiou casts a critical eye on the yellow vests movement in France, finding in it much to bemoan, but also...
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