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The Largest Civil Protests in Iraq’s History
@e_flux wrote: Iraqi_protests_in_Tahrir_square.jpg720×540 65.6 KB At the n+1 website, Rijin Sahakian writes about the inspiring civil protests that have rocked Iraq for two months. While Western media...
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The Pervasive Power of the Settler Mindset
@e_flux wrote: 960px-Stand_with_standing_rock_3100227.jpg960×720 240 KB In the Boston Review, historian Nikhil Pal Singh examines how the “settler mindset” continues to shape American politics and...
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"Futurity and Futility" in Jeff VanderMeer’s New Novel
@e_flux wrote: Dead Astronauts.jpg721×725 374 KB In the Los Angeles Review of Books, cultural theorist Alison Sperling reviews Dead Astronauts, the new novel from acclaimned sci-fi writer Jeff...
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Making "Mindfulness" Collective and Liberatory
@e_flux wrote: 1080px-Meditation_Class.jpg1080×720 241 KB At Open Democracy, Ronald Purser details an emerging current of mindefulness advocates who seek to make the practice more collective and...
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UK Elections: The Emotional Toll of Defeat
@e_flux wrote: 1151px-Boris_Johnson_2019_(3).jpg1151×720 183 KB At the Baffler website, journalist Laurie Penny reflects on the emotional toll of the major defeat suffered by the Labour party in last...
View ArticleState of Exemption, State of Exclusion: CAA and NRC
@e_flux wrote: https://conversations.e-flux.com/uploads/default/original/2X/7/7f34268c8652ed95ecf45d1a98f4358ae54c2ab3.mov by Santhosh S. In India, the Constitutional Amendment Act (CAA) and National...
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Hardt & Negri: "Empire, Twenty Years On"
@e_flux wrote: 1240px-Mexico-US_border_at_Tijuana.jpg1240×720 148 KB In the year 2000, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri published Empire, a groundbreaking work of political theory and analysis that had...
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Judith Butler on Nonviolence in our Violent Times
@e_flux wrote: 1239px-Judith_Butler.jpg1239×720 217 KB In the Boston Review, Brandon Terry interviews Judith Butler about her new book, The Force of Nonviolence: The Ethical in the Political. As...
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Fractured Genre: The Noir Novel in the Age of the Internet
@e_flux wrote: 960px-Book_damaged_in_bombing_-_Arppeanum_-_DSC05178.jpg960×720 187 KB At Public Books, literary scholar Eleanor Courtemanche reviews two recent novels that grapple with the dystopian...
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Letters on the Protests Iran
@e_flux wrote: Iranian_protesters_in_November_of_2019._Isfahan.jpg1032×581 54.7 KB Much of the news about Iran in recent weeks has concerned rising military tensions with the US, but this has...
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Brazil's Culture Secretary Ousted After Speech Quoting Goebbels
@e_flux wrote: 1080px-Roberto_Alvim_(2020).jpg1080×720 111 KB As Ernesto Londoño reports in the New York Times, Brazil’s conservative culture secretary Roberto Alvim was fired last week after a video...
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A Memoir from Inside Big Tech's "Uncanny Valley"
@e_flux wrote: 1080px-Silicon_Valley_(24035557720).jpg1080×720 65.4 KB At the Baffler website, Jennifer Schaffer reviews Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener, a memoir based on a 2016 story published in n+1...
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What Biosphere 2 Can Teach Us About Saving the Earth's Ecosystems
@e_flux wrote: 1080px-Biosphere_Panorama.jpg1080×720 221 KB In the current issue of Logic magazine, which focuses on the theme “Nature,” political theorist Alyssa Battistoni reflects on the lessons...
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The Decline of American "Greatness"
@e_flux wrote: 1920px-White_House_lawn.jpg1920×768 339 KB In the just-released February–March issue of Bookforum, Richard Beck, a staff writer for n+1, reviews three recent books on American decline:...
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Court Rules to Keep Osman Kavala in Jail
@e_flux wrote: 201711eca_osman_kavala.jpg946×534 31.8 KB The Turkish magazine Duvar reports on the situation of political prisoner Osman Kavala, a human-rights activist who has been imprisoned without...
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Art Basel Hong Kong in Danger of Cancellation Due to Coronavirus Concerns
@e_flux wrote: 960px-HK_Art_Basel_2015_View1.jpg960×720 166 KB As Bloomberg News reports, the eighth edition of Art Basel Hong Kong, scheduled to open in March, is facing calls for cancellation due to...
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McKenzie Wark on the Bushfires in Australia
@e_flux wrote: 865px-Satellite_image_of_bushfire_smoke_over_Eastern_Australia_(December_2019).jpg865×720 270 KB In Commune magazine, McKenzie Wark reflects on the violently destructive bushfires that...
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Tackling Climate Change Requires More Democracy, Not Less
@e_flux wrote: 1165px-Woolsey_Fire_-_tree_ridge_in_flames_20181119-PB-008.jpg1165×720 108 KB In the winter issue of Dissent magazine, Alyssa Battistoni and Jedediah Britton-Purdy challenge the common...
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"Are Novels Trapped by the Present?"
@e_flux wrote: 1083px-Pawnee_Buttes_Storm_Clouds.jpg1083×720 283 KB At the New Yorker website, Lauren Oyler reflects on Weather, a new novel by celebrated American writer Jenny Offill that has...
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Angela Mitropoulos: "Against Quarantine"
@e_flux wrote: 1280px-2019-nCoV-CDC-23311.jpg1280×720 199 KB At the New Inquiry, Angela Mitropoulos challenges the conventional wisdom that medical quaratine is an effective tool to combat the corona...
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