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Ukraine’s New President Is Only Pretending to Be an Actor
@e_flux wrote: RTX6S1LB.jpg1486×1117 122 KB In New Socialist magazine, Ukrainian filmmaker and writer Oleksiy Radynski examines the recent election of Volodymyr Zelenskyi, a businessman and actor, as...
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Reclaiming the Radical History of Pride
@e_flux wrote: Pride.jpg760×534 73.1 KB This month marks the fiftieth anniversary of LGBTQ Pride. Parades and celebrations will take place around the world, culminating in World Pride in New York,...
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Derek Jarman's Queer Landscape Writing
@e_flux wrote: Derek_Jarman.jpg3625×2449 1.57 MB In the British web magazine The Quietus, Simon Richardson reflects on Modern Nature, a moving memoir written by filmmaker, writer, and painter Derek...
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Michael Hardt on US Hegemony Trump-Style
@e_flux wrote: At the Verso blog, Iman Ganji interviews Michael Hardt about the geopolitical implications of US’s recent threats against Iran and Venezuela, and more generally about how Trump has...
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France's Gilets Noirs: Undocumented Migrants Rise Up
@e_flux wrote: Lead_photo_-_at_Elior.max-760x504.jpg672×504 74.9 KB At Open Democracy, Luke Butterly profiles France’s gilets noirs, a growing movement of undocumented migrants inspired by the gilets...
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The Pursuit of Techno-Convenience Is a Faustian Bargain
@e_flux wrote: amazon-alexa.jpg1000×630 70.6 KB In the technology web magazine Real Life, L. M. Sacasas examines how techno-convenience – as provided by services like Amazon Alexa, Apply pay,...
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How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean
@e_flux wrote: 119001pv.jpg1024×731 228 KB In the Boston Review, historian Peter James Hudson tells the story of how US banks agressively targeted Caribbean nations like Cuba and Haiti for investment...
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Novelist Dubravka Ugrešić on Europe as a Continent of Migrants
@e_flux wrote: ugresic-shevuanwilliams.jpg960×640 53.8 KB At the Los Angeles Review of Books, celebrated Croatian novelist Dubravka Ugrešić reflects on what she calls “invisible Europe,” the teeming...
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"My Mother Laughs": An Excerpt from Chantal Akerman's Memoir
@e_flux wrote: nelson_1-052418.jpg1600×1169 218 KB The BOMB magazine website has an excerpt from My Mother Laughs, a memoir by the late Chantal Akerman translated by Corina Copp and published last...
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How Athens’ Art Scene Became a Hub of Queer Resistance
@e_flux wrote: T756285.jpg1500×1001 252 KB In the British underground culture magazine Huck, Alex King profiles the queer art scene in Greece’s capital, which is thriving despite years of economic...
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Against Human Capital
@e_flux wrote: At Public Books, anthropologist Hadas Weiss reviews three recent scholarly books that deal with the notion of “human capital,” which measures the development and worth of individuals in...
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"Can poetry save us?": An Interview with Bifo
@e_flux wrote: Franco-Bifo-Berardi-1.jpg2048×1363 369 KB In the English-language edition of Le Monde Diplomatique, Mike Huguenor interviews Franco “Bifo” Berardi about his recent book Breathing: Chaos...
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Experimental Music Against Borders
@e_flux wrote: In New Socialist magazine, live-music curator and producer Fielding Hope writes about the amazing diversity and creativity of international experimental music today. Going beyond...
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Economic Planning is Back
@e_flux wrote: At Open Democracy, economist Cédric Durand and sociologist Razmig Keucheyan argue that the big data technologies used by the likes of Amazon and Google could be redirected towards...
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Overcoming a False Dichotomy in Feminism
@e_flux wrote: In the Boston Review, Judith Levine reviews Reckoning: The Epic Battle Against Sexual Abuse and Harassment by historian and lawyer Linda Hirshman. The book gives an account of the...
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The Age of Climate Riots
@e_flux wrote: The Verso blog has an excerpt from the new afterward to Riot. Strike. Riot by theorist and poet Joshua Clover, released last month in paperback. The book sketches a unique history,...
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Novelist Elif Shafak on Turkey's War on Free Speech
@e_flux wrote: 5760.jpg1240×744 22.1 KB In The Guardian, acclaimed Turkish novelist Elif Shafak – author of the bestsellers The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi and The Bastard of Istanbul, among...
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On the Current Role and Future Tasks of Philosophy
@e_flux wrote: 1_EkRcIJ-LvsPb_WM5JObimw.jpg1800×1075 103 KB In Eurozine, Slovenian philosopher Boris Vezjak philosophizes about philosophy itself, asking what the disciple’s social role and objects of...
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The Folk Horror Revival
@e_flux wrote: 190702105437-midsommar-film-1.jpg1200×800 127 KB At the Baffler website, Edward Millar and John Semley examine the cultural and political conditions driving the recent revival of “folk...
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How Technology Is Reconfiguring our Bodies
@e_flux wrote: 01-cyborg.ngsversion.1491280204864.adapt.1900.1.jpg1900×1266 316 KB In advance of its forthcoming issue on the theme of bodies, the stellar tech-and-culture journal Logic has published...
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