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"We are in the middle of a new historic feminist wave"
@e_flux wrote: GettyImages-1134468475.jpg1024×683 232 KB The US-based socialist magazine Viewpoint has released a dossier of articles about recent feminist organizing around the world. Entitled “New...
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Towards an Anti-Fascist AI
@e_flux wrote: 2018-11-1-googlewalkout.jpg937×528 413 KB At Open Democracy, computer scientist and activist Dan McQuillan examines the social biases of emerging AI and machine learning technology. As...
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On Writing and Translating Science Fiction
@e_flux wrote: st2_20190312_jwl12broken_4683415.jpg1526×1024 662 KB The latest issue of Logic, a quarterly technology magazine, focuses on China. It includes an interview with Chinese-American sci-fi...
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How to Be Bodies in the Twenty-First Century
@e_flux wrote: 3366393898_bcb730fba7_b.jpg1023×685 114 KB At Public Books, environmental humanities scholar Heather Houser reviews three recent books that contemplate the relationship between dance...
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Undeniably Experimental, Undeniably Black: Bay Area Curatorial Collective the...
@e_flux wrote: Art in America has a profile of the Black Aesthetic (TBA), a fluid collective of young black artists, writers, and curators based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Taking their inspiration...
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Is a Post-Work, Post-Scarcity Future Possible?
@e_flux wrote: article01_1064x.jpg1064×934 296 KB In the new summer issue of Bookforum, Sarah Jaffe reviews Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto by British writer and activist Aaron Bastani,...
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"The privileged, violent stunt that is the Venice Biennale boat project"
@e_flux wrote: ENITKTTTBYI6TEZRGC6FQNXURY.jpg1484×926 215 KB In the Egypt-based web magazine Mada, curator and artist Alexandra Stock offers a lacerating and impassioned critique of the most...
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The Pursuit of Silence, the Illusion of Control
@e_flux wrote: In the New Yorker, Hua Hsu reviews two recent books on the pursuit of silence in an increasingly noisy world: Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Control by researcher and musician Mack Hagood,...
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Roy Scranton on the Blind Spots of Climate-Change Optimism
@e_flux wrote: Great Barrier Reef.jpg800×533 209 KB At the Los Angeles Review of Books, Roy Scranton reviews two major books on climate change: Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? by...
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Fiction in the Age of Radical Transparency
@e_flux wrote: article00_1064x.jpg1064×1334 398 KB In the summer issue of Bookforum, Christian Lorentzen reflects on how our age of ubiquitous surveillance and compulsory self-disclosure has affected...
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Nigerian Printmaker Bruce Onobrakpeya Is a Legend of African Art
@e_flux wrote: Three Faces II.jpg1414×1000 281 KB Eighty-seven-year-old Nigerian artist Bruce Onobrakpeya has maintained a thriving studio practice for sixty years. He has produced sculptures,...
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Why Has Authoritarianism Returned to Eastern Europe?
@e_flux wrote: GettyImages-900822896-1160x757.jpg1160×757 73.8 KB In Eurozine, historian and literary scholar Aleida Assmann offers a compelling and nuanced explanation for why right-wing...
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The War on Brazilian Democracy
@e_flux wrote: Bolsonaro.jpg1200×800 64.9 KB In the Boston Review, Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Marcelo K. Silva assess the state of Brazilian democracy five months after far-right president Jair Bolsonaro...
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A Group of Distinguished Geologists Date the Beginning of the Anthropocene
@e_flux wrote: 2616.jpg1920×1152 419 KB In The Guardian, Nicola Davison tells the story of the emergence of the term “Anthropocene” among scientists and the controversy that it has provoked,...
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An Oasis in Morrocco Is the Canary in the Coal Mine of Climate Change
@e_flux wrote: image-1437397-galleryV9-cpbr-1437397.jpg850×566 90.3 KB At Spiegel Online, Raphael Thelen profiles the oasis of M’Hamid El Ghizlane in southern Morocco, which has experienced...
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Thinking Art in a Decolonial Way: An Interview with Philosopher Lewis R. Gordon
@e_flux wrote: image-24-319.jpg3543×2362 889 KB In the Los Angeles Review of Books, philosopher Brad Evans interviews fellow philosopher Lewis R. Gordon, author of several books including What Fanon...
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Iran's Green Movement, Ten Years Later
@e_flux wrote: Green-movement-2009.jpg1024×682 278 KB At the website Zamaneh Media, Mahtab Divsalar looks back at Iran’s Green Movement, which launched ten years ago this month. It was triggered by a...
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What Can San Francisco Learn from Cities in the Global South?
@e_flux wrote: 05_JR_San_Francisco_Mural_Detail.jpg.jpg2416×1244 1.26 MB Public Books has a conversation between two distinguished scholars of urbanism about what beleaguered cities like San Francisco...
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Are We Witnessing a New Arab Spring in Sudan and Algeria?
@e_flux wrote: In the English-language edition of Le Monde Diplomatique, international relations scholar Gilbert Achcar compares the recent uprisings in Sudan and Algeria to the movements around the...
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Sperpentine Gallery CEO Resigns Over Connections to Cybersecurity Firm
@e_flux wrote: yana-shot-by-philip-sinden.jpg968×701 51.8 KB The CEO of the Serpentine Galleries in London, Yana Peel, abruptly resigned this Tuesday after an investigation by The Guardian revealed...
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