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Artists and Cultural Workers’ Statement on Gender Equality and “After...
@e_flux wrote: o1024081014539388232.jpg800×633 119 KB (Repost from ART iT) We, the undersigned artists and cultural workers, feel compelled to speak out against the closure of “After ‘Freedom of...
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"There’s Only One Antidote for Climate Despair—Climate Revolt"
@e_flux wrote: 0.jpg1150×760 316 KB In The Nation, environmental journalist Ben Ehrenreich talks to members of Extinction Rebellion, a climate justice organization recently founded in the UK, about...
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Margaret Atwood's Sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale Is a "Dazzling" Triumph
@e_flux wrote: margaret_atwood.jpg928×523 89.1 KB In The Guardian, novelist Anne Enright reviews Margaret Atwood’s hotly anticipated new novel The Testaments, a sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, which...
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In Defense of Degrowth
@e_flux wrote: degrowth-594870_640.jpg1000×613 63.8 KB At Open Democracy, Andrea Grainger debunks some of the common myths about the “degrowth movement,” a current of activists and academics...
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The Ethics of Childbearing in an Apocalyptic Age
@e_flux wrote: The latest issue of the Chicago-based journal The Point tackles a question that is anxiously asked with increasing frequency today by pundits and politicians: why are young people less...
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The Pleasures and Frustrations of Collaborative Fiction Writing
@e_flux wrote: Dovey-GroupNovel.jpg2046×1057 313 KB Writing a novel has traditionally been understood as a solitary and often grueling affair. Novels are frequently taken as the detailed expression of...
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Statement from the Artists’ Guild on the Wider Significance of Aichi...
@e_flux wrote: featured00_landscape.jpg960×480 56.7 KB Statement regarding the closure of “After ‘Freedom of Expression?’” at the Aichi Triennale in Japan, the time prior to its closure, and the...
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Lauren Berlant on a Cancer Memoir That "Insists on the Commons of Suffering"
@e_flux wrote: anne_boyer.jpg2400×1727 245 KB At 4Columns, Lauren Berlant reviews an unconventional memoir of illness and recovery by the celebrated poet and essayist Anne Boyer. Entitled The Undying:...
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The Gig Economy Is About Coercion, Not Freedom and "Flexibility"
@e_flux wrote: 2991.jpg1240×744 35 KB At Public Books, Maya Vinokour reviews three recent book about the making of the gig economy and the day-to-day lives of gig workers: Hustle and Gig: Struggling...
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The New East-West Divide in Europe and Beyond
@e_flux wrote: chithelen_headliner2_bulgarianmonument.jpg1600×900 444 KB In Eurozine, historian Niall Chithelen examines shifting conceptions of the East-West geopolitical divide from the collapse of...
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To Decarbonize We Must Decomputerize
@e_flux wrote: 38EC541200000578-0-image-a-5_1475163155190.jpg962×641 175 KB In the Guardian opinion section Ben Tarnoff, a founding editor of Logic magazine, zeroes in on an overlooked source of...
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The "Fertility Crisis" and the Politics of Reproduction
@e_flux wrote: e512d324fe4650d45df8373efc7fb83af5cd2316_1100.jpg1100×820 672 KB In the fall issue of Bookforum, Jordan Larson reviews two recent books on the politics of reproduction: Full Surrogacy...
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Hong Kong's "New Normal"
@e_flux wrote: At the Baffler website, Hong Kong–born writer Jaime Chu offers a glimpse of what life in the semi-autonomous territory has been like since massive protests began this summer. The...
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Alberto Toscano: Living in the Time(s) of Brexit
@e_flux wrote: 190401-brexit-britain-mc-1009_8cd0218c6d12fe368a8cb3d3301b9347.fit-760w.jpg760×507 63.1 KB At the blog of the Canada-based Social Justice Center, Alberto Toscano, a sociologist and...
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Paul Chan: "Our Data, Our Selves"
@e_flux wrote: Form_03-1024x768.jpg1024×768 58 KB At the Los Angeles Review of Books, Paul Chan observes that while the data we generate through online activity (especially social media) is clearly...
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Books
@e_flux wrote: At Public Books, Merve Emre interviews historian Leah Price, whose latest book, What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading, looks at how styles of...
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Beleaguered Aichi Triennale Loses Government Grant
@e_flux wrote: The English-language edition of Japan’s Kyoda News reports that the 2019 Aichi Triennale, plagued by controversy after its decision to close a section of the show that included an...
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Walid Raad Denied Art Prize Due to His Support for BDS Movement
@e_flux wrote: 160223icawalidraad-14-850.png929×620 648 KB The German newspaper Der Tagesspiegel has reported that Lebanese-American artist Walid Raad has been denied a prize he was set to receive due...
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Aichi Triennale Update: Censored Section to Reopen
@e_flux wrote: cropped_image_l.png960×540 359 KB The English-language edition of Japan’s Mainichi newspaper is reporting that a section of the Aichi Triennale 2019 that was closed in August due to...
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Climate Change Is Already Here: How Different Regions of the World Are Coping
@e_flux wrote: image-1473284-860_galleryfree-uzgk-1473284.jpg860×574 81.1 KB Spiegel Online has a lengthy article that takes a detailed look at how cities, towns, and rural communities in different...
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