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A Union of Poets
An interview with organizers of the Union of Radical Workers and Writers, the Resist Retail Nihilism conference, and the Worker Writers School
What a Band of 20th-Century Alabama Communists Can Teach Black Lives Matter and the Offspring of Occupy
On the 25th anniversary of the groundbreaking history, "Hammer and Hoe," author Robin D.G. Kelley discusses the lessons Alabama’s forgotten black communists can offer today’s activists.
Domestic Workers Organizing — The Convention 189 Campaign as a Mobilization Model
"Precarity is on the rise. Low-wage service jobs have seen a significant surge in the last years, and domestic work has become one of the largest sectors of employment in the global economy. "
NPoL in InPrint Art Book Fair, Hansen House
Dec. 6 and Friday, Dec. 7 at the Hansen House in Jerusalem
UNESCO launches Global Survey on Status of the Artist
UNESCO is launching until 23 November 2018 a global survey on policies and measures taken around the world to support the economic and social rights of artists.
Museum and Archive on the Move: Changing Cultural Institutions in the Digital Era
by Oliver Grau, Wendy Coones and Viola Rühse, Editors, Walter De Gruyter, Berlin, Germany, 2017.
Radical Women: Making Room
Radical Women runs through August–November 2018 at Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Brazil. It was previously shown at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and in the Brooklyn Museum, New York.
Otto Neurath + Gerd Arntz — visual education
"Neurath was a social scientist, scientific philosopher and maverick leader of the Vienna Circle who championed ‘the scientific attitude’ and the Unity of Science movement."
Transforming the Global “Precariat” into a Political Force
The concept of the precariat has explanatory power day-to-day and transformative potential in the socio-political world. For a just and honorable life, we need the political precariat.
To honor the founding of the Black Panther Party in Oakland (USA) 52 years ago today, October 15...
some revolutionary artwork by its Minister of Culture and Revolutionary Art, Emory Douglas
The Laundromat Project
Is a Laundromat the Best Place to Show Art? This NYC Nonprofit Makes a Strong Case For It
Joshua Simon — On Metastability: Minimum Points of Contact and Maximum Intensity
João Laia and Joshua Simonin conversation in Mousse Magazine #65
American Hospitality
This article accompanies the inclusion of Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0 and b.a.n.g. labs' Transborder Immigrant Tool in the online exhibition Net Art Anthology ... The Transborder Immigrant Tool, was a mobile phone application intended to guide individuals who were making their way to the United States through the deserts of the U.S./Mexico borderlands to water. The application delivered poetry to its users in an effort to assist in their emotional and mental well-being while offering information about survival during the dangerous journey.
Maayan Strauss
Maayan Strauss is an artist based in Berlin and New York. Her multidisciplinary artistic practice examines infrastructure, labor, and mundane facilities and reflects on the nature and condition of artistic production.
From Its Mouth Came a River of High-End Residential Appliances
Performed by Jon Wang, Kuby Lin, Ylang Ylang Poon, and Covey Gong. Music and sound by Yllis, Alex Wang, and Aron Sanchez. Produced by Kim Junsung. Videography by Jon Wang, Jessica Lee, Kuby Lin, and Ashland Mines.