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Social Research

Invisible Images

Can we trust human visual culture in our modern machinic landscape?

February 6, 2023 • by Will Fenstermaker

Today, when the vast majority of the trillions of images produced every second live their entire virtual lives unseen by human eyes, what an image depicts and why matter less than the fact that the image is visible at all....

Interviews

“A Terrible Time”

A conversation with Camilla Fitzsimons about the ongoing global fight for abortion rights

February 6, 2023 • by Amalie Thieden and Camilla Fitzsimons

When I was campaigning to repeal the Eighth Amendment in 2018, many older people were very, very, very welcoming of the referendum; they had somebody in their family who had had to travel abroad to get an abortion, or they had experienced or known women who felt they’d had too ...

Interviews

I Think of It as a Diary

An interview with Anne Waldman about her book Bard, Kinetic and a political life well-lived

January 25, 2023 • by Lindsey Scharold and Anne Waldman

Lindsey Scharold spoke with Waldman about where these themes overlap: where others intersect with memoir, where the spiritual aligns with the political, and where theory and practice meet....

Interviews

Between Tokenization and Representation

A conversation with novelist Iman Hariri-Kia

January 18, 2023 • by Yasmeen Hamadeh and Iman Hariri-Kia

An interview with Iman Hariri-Kia’s on her debut novel, A Hundred Other Girls (Sourcebooks, 2022)...

Announcements

Until We Meet Again

Public Seminar suspends publication until the conclusion of the part-time faculty strike at The New School

November 16, 2022 • by James Miller and Claire Potter

Public Seminar has suspended publication as of November 16, 2022, until The New School and the part-time faculty union have arrived at a new contract, allowing our part-time colleagues to return to work. We will not be accepting pitches, or answering queries, until further notice....

Social Research

What, If Anything, Do Populism and Conspiracy Theories Have to Do with Each Other?

Why “powerless” populists suggest conspiracy

November 15, 2022 • by Jan-Werner Müller

The following is an excerpt from an essay first published in Social Research: An International Quarterly. It is part of the journal’s issue Conspiracy Thinking. Populist parties that do not do well at the polls have to face an obvious contradiction: How can it be that the populists are the people’s only morally ...

What, If Anything, Do Populism and Conspiracy Theories Have to Do with Each Other?

Social Research

The Path from Conspiracy to Ungoverning

Delegitimating democratic foundations

November 14, 2022 • by Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum

Conspiracism, in sum, attacks the legitimacy of the two foundations that make democracy work: knowledge-producing institutions and regulated political rivalry. Because these are the very institutions that bring pluralism into political life, they must be delegitimated by those who claim to own reality and brook no contradiction. ...

Social Research

Conspiracy Thinking, the New Issue of Social Research

The New School journal introduces its latest issue

November 10, 2022 • by Social Research

The Fall 2022 issue of Social Research tackles the subject of conspiracy thinking, from ungoverning to elective affinity....

Conspiracy Thinking, the New Issue of Social Research

Capitalism

The Rat Race of Prestige and Boredom

W. David Marx on how status affects human behavior

November 9, 2022 • by Alla Anatsko and W. David Marx

The whole idea of cultural capital is knowing what objects to buy, how to arrange them, how to behave—all of these things go together. Just because you can purchase an object does not mean you can get into the group....

Interviews

The Moment I Knew I Could Not Be a Priest

John D’Emilio discusses his new memoir, Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood

November 8, 2022 • by John D’Emilio and Claire Potter

My three best friends in high school all went into the Jesuits after graduation. When I say they are my three best friends, the four of us ate at the same table every day for three years at school. So I had the sense that I wanted to apply to ...

The Moment I Knew I Could Not Be a Priest

Democracy

Can Art Reimagine Freedom of Speech?

Curators Carin Kuoni and Laura Raicovich discuss Studies into Darkness

November 1, 2022 • by Carin Kuoni, Laura Raicovich and Lindsey Scharold

Building up to the Trump presidency in the U.S. and, at the same time, coinciding with the rise of authoritarian regimes in democracies in Europe, Hungary, and Italy years prior to that, it seemed very important to look at the Right and its complete embrace of freedom of speech in ...