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"Speculative Nonfiction" on our Climate in 2050
At Public Books, Rob Nixon, author of the influential book Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (2011), surveys recent works of climate “speculative nonfiction.” These works imagine what...
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New York City Will Never Be the Same Again—And It Shouldn’t Be
At the Verso blog, Ashley Dawson and Aurash Khawarzad write about how Covid-19 has exacerbated New York City’s deep inequalities, even as it has opened opportunities for structural change in the city....
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2020's Existentialist Turn
The Boston Review, political theorist Carmen Lea Dege explores why existentialism has experienced a revival during the coronavirus pandemic, and what it has to teach us about facing uncertainly and...
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The Asset Economy: Property Ownership and the New Logic of Inequality
The Los Angeles Review of Books has an excerpt from an intriguing new book: The Asset Economy: Property Ownership and the New Logic of Inequality by sociologists Lisa Adkins, Melinda Cooper, and...
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The First Great Quarantine Novel
As Brooks Sterritt writes in The Nation, the first great novel to capture the feeling of pandemic-induced isolation has arrived, and it’s not even about Covid-19. Blake Butler’s Alice Knott is...
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A Psychoanalytic Reading of Social Media
In the new fall issue of Bookforum, Max Read reviews The Twittering Machine by theorist Richard Seymour, which approaches our seemingly self-destructive addiction to social media from a fresh angle....
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For the Slow Work of Critique in Critical Times
At Public Books, anthropologist Webb Keane reviews a new edited collection about the value of critique in politically volatile times: A Time for Critique, edited by Didier Fassin and Bernard E....
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Mike Davis on the California Fires
In The Nation, prominent political theorist Mike Davis, a California native, discusses the political and environmental backdrop to the wildfires that have swept across the state in recent weeks. He...
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The Political Economy of Saving the Planet
The Boston Review talks to Noam Chomsky and green economist Robert Pollin about the links between Covid-19 and the climate crisis, and possible strategies for de-carbonizing the world economy in the...
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Mark Fisher's Final Lectures
In the music magazine The Quietus, Enrico Monacelli takes an early look at a forthcoming collection of Mark Fisher’s final lectures, entitled Postcapitalist Desire. Monacelli notes that the...
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How to Live Through the Apocalypse
In the Los Angeles Review of Books, Barbara Kiser reviews two recent books on preparing – mentally, logistically, and intellectually – for living through end times. The first book, Desert Notebooks: A...
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The Lunatic Films of Yasuzo Masumura
In the fall issue of Bookforum, novelist and artist James Hannaham writes about binge-watching the “lunatic films” of Japanese director Yasuzo Masumura during quarantine. Active during the 1950s and...
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Rebecca Solnit on Political Hope
At Lit Hub, Rebecca Solnit reflects on the difference between hope and optimism amidst a chaotic and consequential presidential election in the US. To be hopeful about the election, suggests Solnit,...
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Readings for a Tense and Momentous Week
Gentle greetings, world. It is November 5, in the year 2020. We felt like sharing some words, sounds, and visions with you during this tense and momentous week. Below are just some of the many e-flux...
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Why Automation Theorists Are Wrong
In the Fall 2020 issue of Dissent, political theorist Aaron Benanav argues that the threat to employed posed by automation is overblown. It will not be robots that cause unemployment in the future, he...
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Learning from Plague Novels by Camus and Atwood
At the website of the theory journal boundary 2, literary scholar Bruce Robbins reflects on two novels that have something to teach us during this year of pandemic: Albert Camus’s The Plague and...
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Hito Steyerl, We Will Survive TV “4 Nights at the Museum” - "Mission...
Yesterday I watched the third episode of “4 Nights at the museum” and I was thinking about what was said about workers owning their means of productions, if I remember correctly. I think it was...
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CIVIL IMPOTENCE & ART | on Peru's new political turmoil
Continuing the discussion from Rebecca Solnit on Political Hope: [text by Rodrigo...
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#MeToo Revelations Rock the Dutch Art World
Over the past month The Netherlands has been rocked by a #MeToo scandal that has received little international press, even though it’s been headline news at home. The relatively successful Dutch...
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Prominent Google Ethics Researcher Fired After Criticizing the Tech Giant
In Wired magazine, Tom Simonite reports on the recent firing of a prominent ethics researcher in Google’s AI division. Timnit Gebru was apparently fired for coauthoring a paper that was gently...
View ArticleOpen Letter: "Nothing Can Be Changed Until It Is Faced"
Reposted from nothingchangeduntilfaced.com: As artists, academics, writers and cultural workers who live in Germany and/or work with German cultural institutions, we welcome the joint initiative “GG...
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Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism
In the winter issue of Bookforum, labor journalist Sarah Jaffe reviews Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism by philosopher Kate Soper. Soper argues that the changes in lifestyle and...
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A Novel of "Capitalist Naturalism"
In the Los Angeles Review of Books, Julie A. Ward reviews the novel Hurricane Season by Mexican writer Fernanda Melchor, recently published in English translation. Ward describes the novel as a work...
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Bifo: "What Abyss Are We Talking About?"
by Franco “Bifo” Berardi The essay published by Timothy Snyder in the New York Times Magazine on January 9 has a beautiful title, even if it is not very original.1 Reading the text, however, has been...
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Open Letter to the Museum of Chinese in America from Godzilla Collective
This letter comes from nineteen of the members of the artist collective Godzilla, who officially withdrew from the exhibition “Godzilla vs. The Art World: 1990-2001,” scheduled for later this spring...
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Fragments of Repair (17 April–1 August 2021)
Image taken from bakonline.org There is an ongoing video event by BAK Utrecht and La Dynamo de Banlieues Bleues in Pantin, Paris. It will be available afterwards. An excerpt from the website reads:...
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Arundhati Roy: Modi's Covid Response Is a "Crime Against Humanity
In The Guardian, Arundhati Roy has published a longread about the catastrophic Covid situation in India and the incompetent, heartless response from prime minister Narendra Modi’s government. As Roy...
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Pioneering Polish Art Magazine Taken Over by Goose-Stepping Conservatives
by Krzysztof Gutfranski The Polish magazine Obieg (Circuit) was launched in 1987, beginning as a bulletin; its name was a reference to a “third circuit” of publications that the magazine itself...
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Open Letter from Arts for Afghanistan
We are writing to urge the United States government to do everything in its power to facilitate the departure from Afghanistan of at-risk Afghans, and to include artists, performers, writers,...
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