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Aichi Triennale Update: Lottery System Used to Limit Access to Reopened Section
@e_flux wrote: As Japan’s Asahi Shimbun news reports, the section of the Aichi Triennale entitled “After ‘Freedom of Expression?,’” which was previously closed over a controversial sculpture depicting...
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The Lure of Climate Entrepreneurism
@e_flux wrote: screen_shot_2015-01-23_at_5.05.34_pm.jpg721×527 147 KB At the Boston Review website, environmental historian Troy Vettese reviews two books that look at our climate predicament through...
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Nobel in Literature Goes to Defender of Slobodan Milošević
@e_flux wrote: 5310.jpg1920×1152 378 KB As Sian Cain reports in The Guardian, this year’s Nobel prize in literature has been awarded to Austrain writer Peter Handke, known not only for his novels of...
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"Woke AI won’t save us"
@e_flux wrote: In the current issue of the technology journal Logic, dedicated to the theme of “Bodies,” tech reporter Ali Breland examines efforts to make AI-driven policing technology more...
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How a Group of Progressive Female Researchers Changed Anthropology
@e_flux wrote: 73895_articleimage_original.jpg1100×619 37.7 KB In the Boston Review, historian Gili Kliger reviews a new book that tells the story of the small group of mostly female scholars who...
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Is College Worth It?
@e_flux wrote: 100408_Yard_0072500.jpg1200×800 491 KB At Public Books, Mitchell L. Stevens, a professor of education at Stanford, reflects on whether the costs – both financial and personal – of going...
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Lebanon's Ashkal Alwan Postpones "Home Works" Forum to Join National Uprising
@e_flux wrote: 89ef70b2-b403-4220-837d-25d90ea6e2ea.jpg2500×1664 622 KB In an email sent to supporters, Ashkal Alwan, a nonprofit arts organization in Lebanon, has announced that it will indefinitely...
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How Our "Sonic Episteme" Reinforces Existing Power Structures
@e_flux wrote: The New Inquiry has an excerpt from a fascinting book forthcoming from Duke University Press: The Sonic Episteme: Acoustic Resonance, Neoliberalism, and Biopolitics by philosopher Robin...
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Bifo & Vitrina Distópica Santiago: "Put An End to Nazi-Liberalism Now"
@e_flux wrote: 29352382_10155788115776888_6277949516588126923_o.jpg1024×683 66.4 KB The long disastrous cycle of neoliberalism is approaching its end as violently as it began. Neoliberalism has...
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Silvia Federici's Witchy Anti-Capitalism
@e_flux wrote: Federici-Silvia-Alternativa-capitalismo.jpg900×506 256 KB On the occassion of both Halloween and the book’s fifteenth anniversary, the Verso blog has organized a virtual roundtable on...
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Facebook and the “Free Speech” Excuse
@e_flux wrote: 1920px-Mark_Zuckerberg_F8_2018_Keynote.jpg1920×1280 460 KB Andrew Marantz is the author of the new book Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American...
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Petition: Revoke the Director Appointment at Ujazdowski Castle Centre for...
@e_flux wrote: The Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw is one of Poland’s most vital public arts institutions, offering an esteemed collection of Polish and international art along...
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Statement by Osman Kavala Upon Completion of his 2nd Year in Prison
@e_flux wrote: 2yil-cezaevi-foto-2.jpg1770×969 487 KB Via osmankavala.org: I am at the end of my second year as a resident of Silivri, striving to make it through these tormenting times as unscathed...
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Donna Haraway on Truth, Technology, and Resisting Extinction
@e_flux wrote: The latest issue of Logic magazine has a lengthy interview with lauded feminist scholar and philospher of science Donna Haraway. Haraway discusses the strangely long life of her Cyborg...
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How Social Media Thrives on "Ugly Feelings"
@e_flux wrote: 1087px-Internet_addiction.jpg1087×720 47.7 KB In Real Life magazine, Stefan Higgins dissects how social-media platforms like Facebook and Twitter are designed to reinforce negative...
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The Latest Art Accessory for Celebs: "The Curator Boyfriend"
@e_flux wrote: In a tongue-in-cheek piece for Elle magazine, Mia Feitel notes the remarkable number of celebritiy women – Jennifer Lawrence, Jenny Slate, Heidi Klum, and others – who are romantically...
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What Makes Science Trustworthy? Its Social Character
@e_flux wrote: 1082px-Laboratory_scientist_conducts_an_experiment_with_a_Rotary_evaporator.jpg1082×720 157 KB In the Boston Review, philosopher Philip Kitcher reviews Why Trust Science? by the...
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Ted Chiang's Fiction is Sci-Fi at its Most Artistically Accomplished
@e_flux wrote: In The Nation, Stephen Kearse reviews Exhalation: Stories, a new collection of tales by the celebrated US sci-fi writer Ted Chiang. As Kearse notes, mainstream entertainment’s recent...
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The Hong Kong Uprising Redefines the Temporality of Protest
@e_flux wrote: 1080px-Voa_hong_kong_protest_16june2019.jpg1080×720 386 KB At the n+1 website, Elvia Wilk gives a fascinating account of the six weeks she recently spent in Hong Kong amidst the...
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The Unending Quest to Explain Consciousness
@e_flux wrote: 1008px-Brain_scan_(15962375199).jpg1008×720 142 KB In the just-released December/January issue of Bookforum, Michael Robbins reviews three recent books that venture to explain the...
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