Sunday Reading
...Kurdish Conflict? “Infrastructure is being thrown up with unmatched ferocity and deadly landslides are a direct result.” The Prodigal Sons of Lebanese Pop Syria and Surrealism Writers no one reads:...
Sunday Reading
...A history of violence The Military-Literary Complex On the right to be forgotten Colonising the Clouds : Infrastructure Territory and The Geopolitics of The Stacks Italy's underground mosques Why Do...
Sick
...as a threat are illuminating. In “Who Cares,” Laura Ann Robertson writes of the gendered infrastructure of care work, reading her job as a nurse in a mental health-care facility...
Our Boys Gone Wild
...an already shaky infrastructure destroyed just in time for a hard winter, the sense that Israel will raze Gaza to the ground before it can be liberated. Death on camera...
Hospitality and The Hairworm
...leishmaniasis” also known as the Aleppo Boil, which has been endemic in Syria for generations and is now, with forced migration, the destruction of medical infrastructure, and inadequate conditions in...
Sunday Reading
...of Landmines: Rogue Infrastructure and Military Waste in the Korean DMZ Plus, Five poems by Danez Smith Ben What Michonne, Sasha, and Beyoncé Teach Us About the Complexities of Anger...
Some of This Actually Happened
...kickbacks to buy support for government investment in port infrastructure; Polito leads his state to legalize a new industry and then arranges shady funding when private efforts — the sine...
Interviews
...diagnoses the African publishing industry’s problems as matters of infrastructure and class. Branden Adams’s interview with anthropologist Anna Tsing draws lessons from fungus harvesters to illuminate that most persistent fungus,...
“Set the terms of your struggle:” The Cal Poly Humboldt Commune Speaks
Cal Poly Humboldt rapidly developed into the militant front of the campus Palestinian liberation movement. After repelling a police assault during their occupation of Siemens Hall—renamed Intifada Hall—the commune claimed much of the campus. We spoke to two participants about their efforts.
The Bengali Click Farmer
...unsuspecting viewer to look at this photo and imagine that Maks escaped a fate she was born into — premature death at the hands of cruddy sweatshop infrastructure that seems...
You Know You're the Prettiest Girl
...everyday life, they promise to administer to our solipsism and cater to our convenience. But at the same time, they make up a vast infrastructure of loneliness and disconnection. When...
A Declaration of the Dignity Image
...the infinite reproducibility and mutability of digital materials.” It is a time in which all consumers are producers, things “liked” may immediately be monetized, no one is out of reach,...
Counterfeit
...Gogh.” In a photo essay by the artist Alex Auriema, members of the Senegalese community in Naples produce “fake fakes,” unique copies of branded luxury bags made from found materials...
Propositions for Twenty Unmade Works of Art
...news broadcast Piece together the musical interludes without any dialogue from the news anchors 4 Spend one full day at an airport Leave behind sketchpads, writing materials, or recording devices...
Timothy Mitchell and Alberto Toscano @ e-flux 10/31
..."LtG", graphic materials for exhibition events, Pedro Neves Marques and Mariana Silva, 2013. In his book Carbon Democracy (Verso, 2011), Timothy Mitchell traces the history of oil from...
Eine Kleine SpaceMusik
...which began as textile design. My discipline is design. I still think in those terms. I think about materials, about how they fit together. I think about communication. Do you...