Protest at International Monetary Fund Annual Meeting

Washington, D.C. October 12th

Two dozen people gathered outside the annual meetings of the IMF (International Monetary Fund) to protest policies which they said created too much inequality.  Ten years ago, the number of protestors was closer to two thousand.  A new group calling itself the Fight Inequality Alliance gathered in a small park near the IMF and ...
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Protest at International Monetary Fund Annual Meeting

Reading Adorno on Fascism in the Age of Trump

A New School roundtable

In an era marked by the rise of a paradoxically international right-wing populism, and in the midst of ethno-nationalist tumult in the United States, this roundtable reflects on the legacy and contemporary utility of “Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda.” Might Freud and other psychoanalytic theorists still have something ...
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March for Racial Justice and March for Black Women

Sept. 30, 2017 DC

Black Women First! Black Women First! Shouted several thousand people as they marched up Pennsylvania Ave. from the Capitol on September 30.  They were leading two marches, which started at two different points on Capital Hill before joining to march to the Department of Justice on 10th St. There they planned to turn south to go to ...
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March for Racial Justice and March for Black Women

GIDEST: Wetness Everywhere

Water, fluidity, and scarcity

GIDEST is a Mellon-funded research institute based at The New School that incubates transdisciplinary research at the intersection of social theory, art, and design. As well as our faculty, artist-in-residence, and doctoral fellows’ programs, we run a series of biweekly public seminars that feature both prominent and emerging scholars and practitioners. ...
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