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Our Dark Times

Setting the Intellectual and Political Context for the Investigation of Media, The New Authoritarianism and Its Alternatives

July 7, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

This seminar has a long history, predating the Democracy and Diversity Institute, and born as an oppositionist activity in the good old bad days of previously existing socialism. Adam Michnik first imagined it, after he received an honorary doctorate from The New School in a clandestine award ceremony in 1984 in ...

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The Media, the New Authoritarianism and Its Alternatives

On Teaching, Once Again, in the Democracy and Diversity Institute in Poland, syllabus included

July 3, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

This is the 26th year of The New School’s Democracy and Diversity Institute. I have participated in just about all of them. One year, my father was gravely ill and I had to bug out. Recently, I have missed a few years, as I have been following a promise to ...

The Media, the New Authoritarianism and Its Alternatives

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An Interview with Justin Leroy

Racial finance and the question of moral progress

May 24, 2017 • by Narender Strong and Aaron Neber

On Wednesday, March 29th, Justin Leroy, an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Davis, delivered a presentation entitled “Race, Finance, and the Afterlife of Slavery,” as part of the 2017 Whitney Biennial, the seventy-eighth installment of the longest-running survey of American art. Leroy’s talk, which drew from an article ...

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Step Up, Rise Up, and Reimagine a Radically Just World

A Commencement Address to the Graduates of Eugene Lang College

May 22, 2017 • by Alexandra Délano Alonso

Step up. Rise Up. Stand Up. ACT Up. Show Up. Wake Up. Wise Up. Speak Up. The moment we are living in is demanding so much of us: to be present, to listen, to challenge, to act. But how do we respond when everything we stand for is under attack? ...

Step Up, Rise Up, and Reimagine a Radically Just World

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The New Public Sphere

Invisible Actors, Intangible Codes

May 18, 2017 • by Alysha Khodaiji

A well-informed public is one of the key elements for the functioning of a democracy. However we must acknowledge the paradoxical nature of the present public that is global in size but limited to conversing through a computer screen. These days it seems a well-informed public is a public that ...

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Fame, Truth, and Justice

A Review of Raoul Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro

May 17, 2017 • by Simone Lewis

“…The general reaction to famous people who hold difficult opinions is that they can’t really mean it. It’s considered, generally, to be merely an astute way of attracting public attention, a way of making oneself interesting...”- James Baldwin, No Name in The Street James Baldwin was more than a writer and ...

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Dividuals and Democratic Data

Are we more than just data points?

May 16, 2017 • by Michelle Mason

ENFJ. Those are the results from the Myers-Briggs personality test I took online. The option to share my results flashed on the screen and, with a click, just my 638 closest Facebook friends were able to see and like my results. At least that is what I thought. Big Data has ...

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The Celebrity of Feminism or the Feminism of Celebrity?

New ways to silence women

May 15, 2017 • by Emily Dabney

Numerous celebrities have joined in on the feminist discourse over the past few years, such as Beyoncé, Miley Cyrus, and Ellen Page. While there are those who view celebrity endorsements of feminism as nothing but spectacle and opportunism, others find such an adoption of the discourse to be genuine. In ...

The Celebrity of Feminism or the Feminism of Celebrity?

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Escaping the Logic(s) of White Supremacy

The practice of oppositional thought

May 10, 2017 • by Mitchell Kosters

In her article “Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy,” Andrea Smith advances the argument that there is no monolithic white supremacy. Rather, white supremacy should best be understood as a phenomenon “constituted by separate and distinct, but still interrelated, logics.” [1] She identifies three different racial schematics, corresponding to the different ...

Escaping the Logic(s) of White Supremacy

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Global Climate and Trump

What does Trump Mean for Global Climate Change

May 9, 2017 • by Michael Flaherty

“I just think we have much bigger risks. I mean I think we have militarily tremendous risks. I think we’re in tremendous peril. I think our biggest form of climate change we should worry about is nuclear weapons. The biggest risk to the world, to me -- I know President ...

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Is the U.S becoming a “Black Box Society” under President Trump?

Where we’ve been and where we might go

May 5, 2017 • by Jesse Noltimier

On a rather quiet Tuesday, the 28th of March to be exact, the House of Representatives voted to repeal a law that demanded ISPs (internet service providers) obtain users’ permission to share personal information, such as location data. This law, which was created under the Obama administration, required Internet service ...