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Designing the Humanities

A response to Benjamin Evans

December 4, 2015 • by Julia Lupton

Steampunk, cosplay, food trucks, mumblecore, anti-perfumes, and World of Warcraft, plus typography and class differentiation at the mall; Apple and value; True Blood and queer brand communities; Campus architecture and science fiction; Place-making and foodways in a Filipino restaurant chain: These are some of the topics that students developed in their final research papers in courses ...

Theory & Practice

What is Socialism? What is Revolution? A Note on Bernie Sanders

November 20, 2015 • by Eli Zaretsky

Defying the pundits, Bernie Sanders dominates the struggle for the Democratic nomination by describing himself as a “democratic socialist” and calling for a “political revolution.” True, almost everyone assumes that Hillary Clinton will be the nominee, and this is probably correct. Yet the Clinton campaign stands for nothing -- it ...

Power and Crisis

Moral Sentiment and Moral Judgment after the Paris Attacks

On the problem of selective solidarity

November 18, 2015 • by Michael Weinman

Ever since the dust began to clear after what President Hollande rightfully called "the horror" of Friday night, my media consumption -- yes, especially my Facebook feed (constantly refreshed with reflections from Public Seminar) ...

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Theory & Practice

Anthropocene Denial Bingo

November 12, 2015 • by McKenzie Wark

“We’re fucked. The only question is how soon and how badly.” (16) This is the refreshingly candid way Roy Scranton starts his small, intense book, Learning to Die in the Anthropocene (City Lights Books, 2015). For Scranton, the first and last job of critical thought is to interrupt habits of ...

Theory & Practice

A Response to Jeffrey Goldfarb

November 11, 2015 • by Eli Zaretsky

Dear Jeff, Thank you for your open letter. I am afraid that in spite of your admiration for the color gray, you have distorted all of my positions, reducing complex, nuanced arguments to black vs white caricatures that I do not recognize and that I disown. Briefly: For me, the central issue ...

Multi Media

Replicability Crisis in Psychology

November 5, 2015 • by Zeyno Ustun

By clicking the red keywords and minutes embedded in the text below, you can watch specific moments of the discussion posted above. [tabs] [tab title="Videotext" icon="entypo-book"] Public Seminar hosted a workshop with the title Replicability Crisis in Psychology. Our editor Jeffrey Goldfarb moderated the discussion held by three of our prominent Psychology faculty at the New ...

Theory & Practice

Climate & Colonialism

November 5, 2015 • by McKenzie Wark

It is possible that the climate wars have already started. The ‘aridity line’ is usually considered to be 200mm of annual rainfall. Below that, you have desert. One could draw lines on a map of Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia that mark the boundary between desert and conventionally ...

Education

Replication Problems in Psychology: Crisis, Tempest in a Teapot, or Opportunity?

An assessment of the field

October 30, 2015 • by Jeremy Safran

In late August 2015 an article appeared in the New York Times with a loaded headline: Many Psychology Findings Not as Strong as Claimed, Study Says. The article reported on a recent publication in the journal Science, which raised ...

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Power and Crisis

Winter is Coming for Refugees in Germany

On the humanity vs. the organization of refuge

October 28, 2015 • by Tim Rosenkranz

It’s getting cold in Germany. It’s actually hard to believe that it has only been weeks since warm images of the “good” German went around the world, of thousands of people welcoming even more thousands of refugees with food, toys, and clothes at train stations throughout the country. ...

Theory & Practice

You Say You Don’t Want a Revolution

Conservatism, radicalism, and democracy in 2015

October 19, 2015 • by Laura Nelson

The New York Times’ David Brooks has long been the conservative that liberals hate to love (or at least like). It is easy to see why. Brooks accepts the possibility of reasonable disagreement with the likes of liberals such as Mark Shields or E.J. Dionne, ...

Education

The Triumph of Design (Thinking)

What’s wrong with useful creativity

October 16, 2015 • by Benjamin Evans

September’s edition of that venerable and elite journal of contemporary capitalism, the Harvard Business Review, is devoted to the evolution of something called “design thinking” and its role in current business practices. We are all likely familiar with the way in which design has come to play a central role ...