The Armed and Anxious White Psyche
@e_flux wrote: 190808_vod_wip_hpMain_16x9_992.jpg992×558 47.9 KB In the Boston Review, Mark Tseng-Putterman reflects on the shocking series of mass shootings carried out by white supremacists in the...
View ArticleIn Defense of Freedom of Expression at the Aichi Triennale
@e_flux wrote: August 12, 2019 We, the undersigned artists participating in the Aichi Triennale (2019), condemn the decision to close a full section of the exhibition as an unacceptable act of...
View ArticleTranslation's Burden
@e_flux wrote: 88374-qradmqqwtg-1524976088.jpg1200×630 136 KB At Public Books, literary scholar and translator Matt Reeck reviews three recent books that offer fresh takes on shopworn debates among...
View ArticleThe Restoration of a 1950s Queer Cinema Classic
@e_flux wrote: OLIVIA-02_Courtesy-Icarus-Films-and-Distrib-Films-US.jpg800×585 62.7 KB At Bomb magazine, film programmer Mark Lukenbill praises the recent digital restoration and rerelease of a lost...
View ArticleA Feminist History of Punk
@e_flux wrote: In The Nation, David Hajdu and Karen Oberlin review a new history of punk told through a feminist lense: Revenge of the She-Punks: A Feminist Music History from Poly Styrene to Pussy...
View ArticleInventing the Environment
@e_flux wrote: time-100-influential-photos-william-anders-nasa-earthrise-62.jpg792×640 69.5 KB As it has come to be used in contemporary discourse, “the environment” may seem like a self-evident term....
View ArticleWhat Makes a Millennial Novel?
@e_flux wrote: methode_sundaytimes_prod_web_bin_199237e4-29c6-11e7-877f-32117d3b9145.jpg2250×1500 210 KB In The Guardian, novelist Olivia Sudjic tackles the thorny question of what makes a millennial...
View ArticleEco-Fascisms and Eco-Socialisms
@e_flux wrote: muro1131.jpg1131×645 126 KB At the Verso blog, development sociologist Max Ajl examines contemporary eco-fascism, as expressed in the manifesto of the man who shot and killed 22 people...
View ArticlePierre Bourdieu on Manufacturing Public Debate
@e_flux wrote: GettyImages-118795849-58b88d435f9b58af5c2d926a.jpg768×512 47.4 KB The English edition of Le Monde Diplomatique has republished a lecture by subversive sociologist Pierre Bourdieu...
View ArticleThe Conscience of a Revolutionary: On Victor Serge
@e_flux wrote: victor-serge-towards-freedom.jpg960×525 43.5 KB At the Bookforum website, Alex Press reviews Notebooks: 1936-1947 by the unstinting and cosmopolitan revolutionary Victor Serge. Largely...
View ArticleThe Squandered Potential of Bitcoin and Blockchain
@e_flux wrote: 905283962.jpg.0.jpg1200×800 232 KB At the LA Review of Books, legal scholar Kevin Werbach reviews three recent books that explore the history, technology, and outsized personalities...
View ArticleArtist Koki Tanaka Joins Protest Over Censorship at Aichi Triennale
@e_flux wrote: Two weeks ago we posted an open letter entitled “In Defense of Freedom of Expression at the Aichi Triennale.” Signed by several artists whose work was on display at the show, the letter...
View ArticleBifo on Mario Tronti's Groundbreaking "Workers and Capital"
@e_flux wrote: 20180410immagineseminariotronti.jpg912×548 63.3 KB This month Verso published, for the first time in English, a pivotal work of twentieth-century Marxist thought: Workers and Capital by...
View ArticleAichi Triennale: CIMAM Expresses "Deep Concern" Over Closure of “After...
@e_flux wrote: 41895c90-e741-493d-b371-8edbcc9dffeb.jpg1024×768 73.6 KB International condemnation of censorship at the Aichi Triennale continues, with the publication of an open letter from the...
View ArticleAre the Watchers Always Watching?: Interview with an Anonymous Security Operator
@e_flux wrote: 90.jpg1200×630 172 KB The summer issue of Logic magazine includes a fascinating interview with an anonymous security officer who has worked at high levels in multiple tech and...
View ArticleRaoul Vaneigem on Alienation, the Situationists, and Everyday Revolution
@e_flux wrote: Raoul Vaneigem is a Belgian writer and agitator who was a major protagonist in the initial incarnation of the Situationist International. Best known for his 1967 essay The Revolution of...
View ArticleThe German Arts Community Fights Back Against the AfD's "Culure Wars"
@e_flux wrote: The Financial Times has reported on a chilling occurance in the German arts community that has eerie parallels with the country’s Nazi past. A politician from the country’s far-right...
View ArticleAgnès Varda in the Bay Area
@e_flux wrote: visages-villages-faces-places-2017-008-agnes-varda-facing-herself.jpg1000×707 155 KB Open Space is a web publication affiliated with San Francisco MoMA that has just resumed publishing...
View ArticleAn Immigrant's Manifesto
@e_flux wrote: 2299.jpg2250×1350 197 KB In the new fall 2019 issue of Bookforum, Suzy Hansen reviews This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto by acclaimed journalist Suketu Mehta. Himself an...
View ArticleChina Experiments with a New Kind of Megalopolis
@e_flux wrote: image-1450941-860_poster_16x9-fnqu-1450941.jpg860×484 62 KB In the English-language edition of Spiegel Online, Bernhard Zand profiles China’s latest ambitious infrastructure project:...
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