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Inside the Whitney's replication committee
@karenarchey wrote: For the New Yorker, Ben Lerner writes about a peculiar committee formed at the Whitney Museum in 2008--the replication committee. This committee is responsible for determining if,...
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Is panic over robots and artificial intelligence justified?
@e_flux wrote: After calling 2015 the year that "robot panic peaked," an article in The Observer asks several computer experts whether fear over robots taking our jobs and eventually enslaving the...
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Kate Sutton on the Istanbul Biennial
@karenarchey wrote: For Hyperallergic, Kate Sutton writes about her favorite and least-favorite exhibitions of 2015, and the Istanbul Biennial fell into the, uh, least-favorite category. Her take on...
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Imperialist art at the Tate Britain
@e_flux wrote: At the NY Review Daily, Jenny Uglow writes about Tate Britain's current exhibit "Artist and Empire,” a survey of five hundred years of art about European imperial conquest. The...
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"On leaving Academia.edu" by Guy Geltner
@Mladen_Libuschewski wrote: serveimage2.jpeg945x710 90.1 KB On November 23rd 2015 historian Guy Geltner published a statement on Academia.edu wherein he laid out his thought process for leaving the...
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In defense of political pessimism
@e_flux wrote: At the blog of Salvage magazine, editor-in-chief Rosie Warren argues for the intellectual and political uses of pessimism in the face of climate disaster, economic decay, and a...
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e-flux journal redux: Liam Gillick, 'Maybe it would be better if we worked in...
@karenarchey wrote: *This text was originally published in 2009 in issue 2 of our sister publication, e-flux journal Some people are the motor of the event. Like an animator bringing characters to...
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"Logged-in labor" and the greater economy
@e_flux wrote: At the Jacobin magazine website, Ursula Huws writes about how "logged-in labor"—work done remotely on a computer—is radically reshaping not only freelance and informal work, but also...
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e-flux journal redux: Hassan Khan, 'RANT'
@karenarchey wrote: *This text was originally published in 2009 in issue 2 of our sister publication, e-flux journal 1A. This white space is a stage—a platform that highlights and draws out a set of...
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Nick Currie on Koichi Watanabe’s “Moving Plants”
@karenarchey wrote: Koichi Watanabe, Maplecrest, New York, USA, 2007 This text was originally published by our sister publication, art-agenda Koichi Watanabe’s “Moving Plants”THE THIRD GALLERY AYA,...
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Kurosawa’s Japan revisited
@e_flux wrote: At the NY Review Daily, legendary travel writer Pico Iyer, who has lived in Japan for decades, writes about the first time he saw Akira Kurosawa's film Ikiru. Iyer also suggests that in...
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Sven Lütticken on autonomy, artistic and political
@e_flux wrote: In the January issue of e-flux journal, which was published earlier this week, Sven Lütticken offers a magisterial account of the history and present of autonomy as theory and practice...
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The revenge of Freud and the twilight of cognitive behavioral therapy
@e_flux wrote: While psychoanalysis has been an important part of the intellectual toolbox of art and the humanities for decades now, around the mid-twentieth century it began to disappear from...
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e-flux journal redux: Boris Groys, 'Politics of Installation'
@karenarchey wrote: *This text was originally posted in 2009 in issue two of our sister publication e-flux journal The field of art is today frequently equated with the art market, and the artwork is...
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"On the use and abuse of Nietzsche for a neoliberal era"
@e_flux wrote: In the LA Review of Books, Mimi Howard reviews Anti-Education, a newly translated compilation of lectures on education delivered by a youthful Nietzsche in 1872. In the lectures,...
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Why Amazon's data centers are tucked amongst intelligence agencies in...
@karenarchey wrote: Pasted image960x643 988 KB For the Atlantic, Ingrid Burrington writes about the data centers of Amazon Web Services, the online retail giant's web hosting service used by major web...
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Bifo on "the coming global civil war"
@e_flux wrote: In the January issue of e-flux journal, Franco "Bifo" Berardi surveys the global landscape of sluggish economies, growing fanaticism, and widespread desperation to suggest that we may...
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Hossein Derakhshan: social media apps kill the web's radicality
@karenarchey wrote: Pasted image1225x735 957 KB In 2008, influential Iranian blogger Hossein Derakhshan was sentenced to 19.5 years in prison for spurious reasons relating to "cooperation with hostile...
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Abu Dhabi's Louvre and Guggenheim: failed attempts to undermine Western...
@e_flux wrote: In The Guardian, Kanishk Tharoor offers a lengthy analysis of the geopolitical dynamics behind the Louvre Abu Dhabi and the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, taking into account the history and...
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Chloe Wyma on Dave Hickey's '25 Women: Essays on Their Art'
@karenarchey wrote: Brooklyn Rail Editor Chloe Wyma writes a rather satisfying (but fair!) review of Dave Hickey's "25 Women: Essays on Their Art" for the New York Times Sunday Book Review. She...
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