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"This Prison Has a Sky without Bars"
@e_flux wrote: skynews-prison-window-bars_45418002048×1152 395 KB In the Egypt-based magazine Mada, Abdelrahman ElGendy, a former political prisoner, reflects on his ongoing experience of...
View ArticleLetters against Separation — Kasia Wolinska in Berlin
@e_flux wrote: Dear Comrade, Please take my address as an invitation to dance, maybe we can find each other sharing some weight. In the calibration of such intimate moving-with we may fall out of...
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Amidst Virus Fears, the Public Warms to Surveillance
@e_flux wrote: 960px-Caméra_Surveillance_Gare_Val_Fontenay_Quais_RER_A_Fontenay_Bois_1960×720 104 KB In Real Life magazine, tech scholar Jathan Sadowski examines how authoritarian measures like...
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"What happens after the contactless art world?"
@e_flux wrote: At the website of the curatorial initiative WCSCD (What could/should curating do?), curator Nikita Yingqian Cai asks what museums will look like after the coronavirus pandemic has...
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Petition: "Open Letter Calling on Museums to Retain Staff During COVID-19...
@e_flux wrote: From Change.org: To art museum directors, trustees, board members, and upper management: We ask that you do everything in your power to retain all staff members during the COVID-19...
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From Revolution to Self-Isolation in Beirut
@e_flux wrote: 960px-2019_Lebanese_protests_-_Beirut_6960×720 149 KB At Literary Hub, Beirut-based writer and translator Lina Mounzer writes a letter to an American friend reflecting on the strange...
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"New York is still here, but it is also not"
@e_flux wrote: 720px-Coronavirus_Sunset_(49674100283)720×720 214 KB At Medium, New York–based author Glynnis MacNicol describes the eerie emptiness, but also the quiet beauty, of the city amidst the...
View ArticleArundhati Roy: In India, Covid-19 Has Led to "A Crisis of Hatred Against...
@e_flux wrote: In the video above, a journalist with DW, a German news network, interviews Arundhati Roy about how the Covid-19 outbreak has inflamed anti-Muslim sentiment in India. The interview is...
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On Russian Cosmism's Project of Universal Emancipation—Even from Death
@e_flux wrote: 1587573476787-Screen-Shot-2020-04-22-at-123607-PM1400×787 82.3 KB At Vice, Edward Ongweso Jr. reflects on how Russian cosmism – a philosophical and scientific current of the late...
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Letters against Separation – Furqat Palvan-Zade in Tashkent
@e_flux wrote: Dear friend, This is the first note I’ve written for the Letters against Separation project. Usually I start with my name: it’s Furqat. In this case, my name is actually quite relevant,...
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Where Does the Gig Economy Come From?
@e_flux wrote: 960px-Lyft_Pink_Mustache960×720 104 KB In the tech-focused journal Logic, law professor Veena Dubal offers a brief history of the gig economy, concentrating on how the taxi industry in...
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"The memory of the survivor is different from the memory of the perpetrator":...
@e_flux wrote: Still from the film Grey Matter (2011), dir. Kivu Ruhorahoza. Between April 29 and May 5, 2020, e-flux Video & Film is screening Grey Matter, a feature film by Rwandan director Kivu...
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Letters against Separation – Pelin Tan on an Island
@e_flux wrote: _MG_06765592×3744 822 KB Image: Hera Büyüktaşcıyan, From the Island of the Day Before (drawing detail). 14th Istanbul Biennale, 2015. Photo credit: CHROMA. ON ARCHIPELAGOS &...
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Keti Chukhrov: "Five Inexplicabilities of the Pandemic"
@e_flux wrote: David_-_The_Death_of_Socrates3896×2559 4.91 MB Image: Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Socrates (1787). Via Wikipedia. 1. The Politics of Eschatology A few days ago the students of...
View ArticleLetter against Separation – Nikita Yingqian Cai in Guangzhou
@e_flux wrote: A couple days ago, I clicked open a short email from Aileen and Johan on the one-hour subway ride from home to work, and I was a little shocked to learn that “Right now it is looking...
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"Responding to Anti-Asian Xenophobia during the Pandemic"
@e_flux wrote: checklist-San-Francisco-Wasp-011240×860 272 KB At the Guggenheim blog, curator and writer Xiaoyu Weng examines the disturbing spike in anti-Chinese racism in the US since the onset of...
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Rethinking the Venice Biennale for a Post-Pandemic World
@e_flux wrote: 1046px-Sun_&Sea(Marina),Venice_Biennale_2019_P1760438(49002922142)1046×720 226 KB At the website of the Institute of Radical Imagination, curator and theorist Marco Baravalle...
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Jodi Dean: "Capitalism is turning itself into neofeudalism"
@e_flux wrote: At the Los Angeles Review of Books, political theorist Jodi Dean argues that we are living in an era of “neofeudalism,” in which capitalism has morphed into a set of highly exploitative...
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Achille Mbembe: "The Universal Right to Breathe"
@e_flux wrote: Mbembe980×652 80.4 KB At the website of the 16 Beaver collective, philosopher and historian Achille Mbembe reflects on how the Covid-19 pandemic will change the geopolitical situation...
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Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the...
@e_flux wrote: Factory_Area_Honjo_Fukagawa_-by_Maekawa_Senpan(新東京百景「工場地帯_本所」前川千帆)944×717 183 KB The following is an excerpt from Max Haiven’s Revenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of...
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