Open Letter from AA Bronson to the Canada Council Art Bank
@e_flux wrote: The following open letter originally appeared on Facebook late last week: An open letter to Amy Jenkins, Head, Canada Council Art Bank Dear Amy Jenkins, I cannot sign Art Bank’s Google...
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“Planetarity,” “Planetarism,” and the Interpersonal
@e_flux wrote: IMG_03314032×3024 1.64 MB by Jeremy Bendik-Keymer For reasons I have elsewhere explained, I tend not to talk about the “Anthropocene.”1 But that does not mean we cannot talk here about...
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Giorgio Agamben: "Requiem for the Students"
@e_flux wrote: giorgio-agamben-2011-4924×693 253 KB At Medium, D. Alan Dean has translated a short text by Giorgio Agamben, recently published by the philosopher on the Italian blog Diario della...
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Kafka on Swimming and the Impossible
@e_flux wrote: kafka_franz11800×1403 166 KB At the website of Cabinet, Aaron Schuster uses a Kafka short story about an Olympic swimmer as a springboard for a remarkable reflection on social norms,...
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"Hong Kong and Taiwan are cultural powerhouses. That terrifies Beijing."
@e_flux wrote: xi-jinping-960x540960×540 58.1 KB In the Washington Post, journalist Arthur Tam writes about the recent history of rich cultural exchange between mainland China and Hong Kong and...
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Notes on the Black Plague
@charlesmudede wrote: There are so many things to piece together. I will work on one piece at a time. And nothing like all of the pieces will be addressed in this and other brief notes on the Black...
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The Challenges of Visualizing a Pandemic
@e_flux wrote: 1079px-Grand_Central_Station_Empty_Streets_New_York_City_COVID19_-_497850473821079×720 160 KB At Real Life magazine, Colin Dickey examines the difficulty of creating a visual...
View ArticleA Note on Seattle Police Department's Mourning Bands
@charlesmudede wrote: At around 2 pm PST today, Seattle’s police chief, Carmen Best, announced that police officers will not be allowed to cover their badges with “morning bands.” Seattle Mayor Caves...
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Saidiya Hartman: "The End of White Supremacy, An American Romance"
@e_flux wrote: pic1440×959 167 KB In the new summer issue of BOMB magazine, renowned writer and scholar Saidiya Hartman uses a little-known short story by W. E. B. Dubois as the basis for a gripping...
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Opening of Istanbul Museum of Painting and Sculpture Delayed After...
@e_flux wrote: pic1920×1080 1.33 MB In the Art Newspaper, Ayla Jean Yackley reports on the long-delayed plans to reopen the Istanbul Museum of Painting and Sculpture (IRHM), which have been postponed...
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How Epidemics End
@e_flux wrote: 961px-Camp_Funston,_at_Fort_Riley,_Kansas,_during_the_1918_Spanish_flu_pandemic961×720 227 KB In the Boston Review, physician Jeremy A. Greene and medical scholar Dora Vargha examine...
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How Museums Are Documenting the BLM Uprising
@e_flux wrote: 28561920×1279 393 KB In The Guardian, Nadja Sayej writes about how US museums have been collecting artifacts and stories from the recent Black Lives Matter uprising in real time,...
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Yuk Hui on the "Mystical" in Art and Science
@e_flux wrote: 1045px-J_M_W_Turner_-Regensburg_vom_Dreifaltigkeitsberg-_18401045×720 148 KB In the July–August issue of the Brooklyn Rail, philosopher Yuk Hui reflects on the notion of the “mystical”...
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How the Counterculture Invented Wellness
@e_flux wrote: VCW_D_Bigsur_T4_kodiak greenwood 5873_01-1280x6421280×640 61.7 KB Writer and musician Matthew Ingram is the author of the book Retreat: How the Counterculture Invented Wellness,...
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Brian Holmes: "After Chimerica: Bioregionalism for the City of Ashes"
@e_flux wrote: walmart-21576×1039 537 KB At the website of the academic journal boundary 2, Brian Holmes sketches the contours of what a post-globalization world might look like. He observes that the...
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One-Third of US Museums May Not Survive the Pandemic
@e_flux wrote: facade_1920x10801920×1080 233 KB The New York Times reports on the distressing results of a recent survey of US museum directors conducted by the American Alliance of Museums. A third...
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Factory Farming and Human–Animal Ethics
@e_flux wrote: 981px-Undercover_Investigation_at_Manitoba_Pork_Factory_Farm_(8250092097)981×720 212 KB In the Boston Review, environmental historian Troy Vettese reviews two books that examine factory...
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Chantal Mouffe: Not All Populisms Are Reactionary
@e_flux wrote: 1279px-Climate_march_in_dc_(38614151866)1279×720 410 KB In Le Monde Diplomatique, Chantal Mouffe, the author most recently of For a Left Populism (2019), critiques the recent...
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The Last of Deleuze's Archive Is Published
@e_flux wrote: Deleuze-Lamennais-4-A811×502 113 KB In The Nation, critic Andrew Marzoni reviews Letters and Other Texts, the last of the three-volume series of Gilles Deleuze’s essays, letters, and...
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"Speculative Nonfiction" on our Climate in 2050
@e_flux wrote: 966px-ParmaMelor_AMO_TMO_2009279_lrg966×720 224 KB At Public Books, Rob Nixon, author of the influential book Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (2011), surveys recent...
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