From "Indie" to "Interdependent" in Underground Music
@e_flux wrote: 960px-Berghain_Berlin_Dance_Floor.jpg960×720 109 KB In the tech-focused web magazine Real Life, music scholar Robin James examines the renewed focus on artistic “interdependence” among...
View ArticleJacques Rancière on "The Crisis of Democracy"
@e_flux wrote: 960px-Jacques_Rancière_Zagreb_Jedinstvo_(4481676085).jpg960×720 95.3 KB At the Verso blog, Joseph Confavreux interviews Jacques Rancière, revisting the ideas in Rancière’s Hatred of...
View ArticleMediators at Kyiv’s Pinchuk Art Center Lose Jobs After Forming Union
@e_flux wrote: 558f0d3c-d19a-4671-9.jpg824×464 211 KB In the Kyiv Post, Irynka Hromotska reports that mediators at the Pinchuk Art Center in Kyiv have been fired after forming a union. The mediators...
View ArticleArundhati Roy Denounces Violence by "Fascist Mob" in Delhi
@e_flux wrote: hymentpyrc-1583056659.jpg1472×981 47.4 KB At the Indian news website Scroll, Arundhati Roy offers an impassioned denunciation of recent mob violence against Muslims in India, which...
View ArticleBuilding Solidarity in Our Bodies and Our Institutions: The Finissage as...
@e_flux wrote: by Pia Chakraverti-Wuerthwein “In Search of Maintained Solidarity: A Frame for the No Longer Visible,” January 24–25, 2020, Kunstverein in Hamburg. Curated by Antonia Alampi, in...
View Article"The Berlinale Protests the Imminent Incarceration of Golden Bear Winner...
@e_flux wrote: mohammad-rasoulof-pm_RWD_1780.jpg1780×1187 129 KB Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, whose film There is No Evil was awarded the Golden Bear for Best Film at the 2020 Berlin...
View Article"Against Agamben: Is a Democratic Biopolitics Possible?"
@e_flux wrote: 960px-Emergenza_coronavirus_-_49501382411.jpg960×720 146 KB Amidst the widespread Covid-19 outbreak in Italy and other parts of the world, Giorgio Agamben published a widely circulated...
View Article"Coronavirus Propagations" by Jonas Staal
@e_flux wrote: 001.jpeg828×446 66.3 KB Uncredited Coronavirus meme, 2020 A contrast that matters. Former vice president Joe Biden appeals to the public in a pseudo-presidential address in the midst of...
View ArticleMutual Aid, Social Distancing, and Dual Power in the State of Emergency
@e_flux wrote: xfWkvZugBWDQ2dDFAwlBjyzPJPTb2s7Ud702qaD3R9lv0JpLm4rwgN4aEno9SBrrxhvuKgmpIk1P55rdq4WeXpA26rkkRJGVYoJJL3R3HYR9VmcM1j1yJVgBb883YGh-DeSqYMUh1600×1141 by Woodbine The viral crisis has...
View ArticleLAVA: From Global Insurrection to COVID-19
@e_flux wrote: Lava_Letters_V3.gif1000×500 7.37 MB by Mitra Azar & Hugo Sir Introduction LAVA – Letters from the Volcano is an experimental zine conceived by Franco “Bifo” Berardi and developed by...
View ArticleLetters against Separation – Liu Ding, Liu Qingshuo, and Carol Yinghua Lu as...
@Liuliulu wrote: IMG_3243.jpg4032×3024 6.6 MB This image was taken when we were visiting Chaozhou, a coastal city in South China on January 23, the day when Wuhan went into lockdown. A man was...
View ArticleLetters against Separation – Irmgard Emmelhainz in Mexico City
@gardiemmel wrote: March 30th 2020 Today it’s been three weeks since women massively went on strike a day after having taken the streets. Called for by feminists to protest against gender violence and...
View ArticleLetters against Separation – Hanmin Kim in Seoul
@Hanmin wrote: 30th March, 2020 Hi Paulo, It always took a while for you to reply, but this time it makes me worry a bit. Are you still in New York or did you manage to evacuate to Portugal? Yes, I...
View ArticleLetters against Separation – Oxana Timofeeva in rural Russia
@oxanasan wrote: 30.03.2020 Hi diary. It’s a beautiful day, lots of sunlight, but life is not easy when you have a toilet outside, get up in the morning and realize that the weather is -9 Celsius....
View ArticleLetters against Separation – Bahar Noorizadeh in London
@xfactor wrote: March 31st, 2020 As the meme goes, even the apocalypse (in the Western genre) turned out to be banal, basic, underwhelming, in PJs paving supermarket aisles hunting for glutten-free...
View Article"Beyond the Breakdown: Three Meditations on a Possible Aftermath" by Franco...
@e_flux wrote: virus1.jpeg3024×3024 2.82 MB Image by Istubalz All of a sudden, what we have been thinking for the last fifty years has to be rethought from scratch. Thank god (is god a virus?) that we...
View ArticleLetters against Separation – Claire Fontaine in Italy
@ClaireFontaine wrote: A. Was I ill? Have I recovered? Has my doctor been discovered? How have I forgotten all? B. Now I know you have recovered: Healthy is who can’t recall. —F. Nietzsche, The Gay...
View Article"Ted Chiang Explains the Disaster Novel We All Suddenly Live In"
@e_flux wrote: Chiang,_Ted_(Villarrubia)_(cropped).jpg593×614 207 KB Electric Literature has a new interview with acclaimed sci-fi writer Ted Chiang. Chiang reflects on the strange and unnerving...
View ArticleLetters against Separation – Mahan Moalemi in Berlin
@mahanmoalemi wrote: April 3, 2020 Technically, I still live in Tehran, even if less and less so. I’ve been outside Iran since before the breakout. To be more specific, it was after the internet...
View ArticleArundhati Roy: "The Pandemic Is a Portal"
@e_flux wrote: 1080px-Arundhati_Roy,_Man_Booker_Prize_winner.jpg1080×720 167 KB In the Financial Times, novelist Arundhati Roy describes the impact of Covid-19 in her native India, where the...
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