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The Public Is Way Ahead of Politicians When It Comes to Climate Change
@e_flux wrote: image-1450382-galleryV9-swax-1450382.jpg850×566 87.9 KB In the English-language edition of Spiegel Online, a team of journalists investigates the growing interest in environmental...
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On Settling Space: Building Utopia or Expanding Dystopia?
@e_flux wrote: At Public Books, design scholar Billy Fleming reviews Space Settlements by Fred Scharmen. In Fleming’s words, the book “tells the story of NASA’s 1975 project to design large-scale...
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Alberto Toscano on the Perils of Political "Realism"
@e_flux wrote: 20-toscano.png980×520 442 KB At his blog Cartographies of the Absolute, theorist and sociologist Alberto Toscano has posted the English version of a fascinating interview he did with...
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A New Tactic in the Struggle for Affordable Housing in Berlin
@e_flux wrote: blumenfeld-1.jpg1020×765 226 KB In the summer issue of the Brooklyn Rail, philosopher and Berlin resident Jacob Blumenfeld investigates a new tactic proposed by activists fighing to...
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How Mark Fisher's "Acid Communism" Has Inspired a New Current in Politics and...
@e_flux wrote: acid-communism-pic-3.jpg900×600 381 KB In the summer issue of Commune magazine, critical theorist and psychedelics scholar Emma Stamm explores how Mark Fisher’s notion of “acid...
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3D Printing in Gaza
@e_flux wrote: Dr. Tarek Loubani is a Palestinian-Canadian doctor who has devised an innovative way to provide affordable medical equipment to the doctors and hospital of Gaza: 3D printing. Dr....
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The Algorithmic Colonization of Africa
@e_flux wrote: SIM-4_1600_c-1024x680.jpg1024×680 144 KB In the web magazine Real Life, Abeba Birhane writes that many European and US tech companies view Africa as an untapped gold mine. The...
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How Has the Meaning of "Queer" Changed with the Wider Acceptance of LGBTQ+...
@e_flux wrote: ACTUP1_web.jpg800×592 176 KB At Open Space, the blog of SFMOMA, film scholar Samuael Topiary reflects on how the meaning and political import of “queer” has evolved in the past three...
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"Political Religion" and the Far Right
@e_flux wrote: At Open Democracy, historian Paul Jackson traces the development of the concept of “political religion,” first coined in the twentieth century by scholars of fascism. The basic idea is...
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Is the Internet Making Writing Better?
@e_flux wrote: 1563826479436-because-internet.jpg2000×1125 525 KB At the New Yorker website, Katy Waldman discusses a new book that makes a counterintuitive claim: the internet had made writing more...
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A Manifesto for Opting Out of the Attention Economy
@e_flux wrote: HowtodoNothing-958x559.jpg958×559 106 KB The theme of the newest issue of the British fringe culture magazine Huck is burnout. The issue includes articles on escaping the attention...
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The Pleasures and Punishments of Long-Ass Films
@e_flux wrote: At the Baffler website, film critic Nick Pinkerton writes about the curious rewards of “durational epics” like Béla Tarr’s seven-hour film Sátántangó and Jacques Rivette’s thirteen-hour...
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On Math and the Pursuit of the Unknown
@e_flux wrote: featured00_square.jpg1650×1650 709 KB The Bookforum website has an excerpt from an unusual and fascinating new book: The Weil Conjectures: On Math and the Pursuit of the Unknown by...
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Academia and Climate Change
@e_flux wrote: fly.jpg968×681 33 KB At the website of the journal Social Text, Ashley Dawson, author of the book Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change,...
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Silent Dissent in Egypt
@e_flux wrote: image_7_jpg.width-800.jpg800×533 164 KB At Open Democracy, Nura Adam writes about an increasingly common way to express political dissent in Egypt, where open criticism of the...
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Samuel Delany on Capitalism, Racism, and Science Fiction
@e_flux wrote: At Public Books, John Plotz interviews science fiction titan Samuel Delany, author of dozens of beloved novels and stories, notably the groundbreaking Dhalgren (1975) and Trouble on...
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Worker Resistance on Amazon Warehouses
@e_flux wrote: Amazon_Fulfillment_Center_in_San_Bernardino.5790cafb646d2.jpg960×642 107 KB In Logic magazine, Sam Adler-Bell writes about the results of his extensive and fascinating investigation...
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Remembering Toni Morrison
@e_flux wrote: GettyImages_514704088_header.0.jpg1200×675 102 KB This week saw the passing of Toni Morrison, acclaimed author of eleven novels, including the groundbreaking Beloved (1987) and The...
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Toward a Theory of the New Weird
@e_flux wrote: aaa-2-1240x698.jpg1240×698 151 KB At Literary Hub, novelist and critic Elvia Wilk sketches a theory of the “New Weird,” a genre of fiction that’s not quite sci-fi, not quite fantasy....
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Love of Instrumental Music Is Linked to Intelligence
@e_flux wrote: At the website Big Think, Robby Berman reports on the results of a recent study about the links between intelligence and listening to instrumental music. The study found that people who...
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