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Twitter as the Medium and the Message

Or Twitter as The Public

April 6, 2017 • by Alysha Khodaiji

“Describe yourself in a sentence.” Teachers commonly use this phrase as an invitation to their students, presumably to get to know them better. All your thoughts, ideas, motivations, and aspirations, all condensed into one sentence. That is a lot of editing -- your gist can only contain the ‘best’ or ...

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Black Study, Black Struggle

Race Critical and Decolonial Sociology

April 6, 2017 • by Alana Lentin

This blog post is republished with the permission of the author, Alana Lentin, from her blog, alanalentin.net In April 2016, the Free University of Western Sydney was launched by a group of local people -- activists, teachers/educators and students -- critical of the neoliberal university’s capacity to be a site for ...

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Hungarian Higher Education Under Attack

The Fate of CEU is the Fate of Freedom

April 3, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Isaac

Central European University, one of the most important institutions of higher education in Europe, is currently being threatened by the Hungarian government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his nationalist-populist FIDESZ party. CEU, founded in 1991 during the early phases of the post-Communist transition, is officially registered and accredited in ...

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Confronting the Corporate University

From Cold War Federalization to Financialized Higher Education

March 29, 2017 • by Robert Meister

Thank you for inviting me. GSU has asked me to speak more biographically than I am accustomed to speaking about my experience and particularly about the relationship between my experience as a graduate student, unionizing graduate students in a private university, and how that bears on my experience as an ...

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Exile from Exile

Make the University in Exile a Sanctuary

March 24, 2017 • by Soheil Asefi

As an independent journalist in Iran, I never thought there would be a day that the paws of state would deprive me of the possibility of returning to the country where I was born and raised. After ten years of professional experience in major Iranian media outlets, I was arrested ...

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Race Critical and Decolonial Sociology

Syllabus

March 16, 2017 • by Alana Lentin

The syllabus below comes from a graduate course offered by Alana Lentin during her Hans Speier Visiting Professorship at The New School in New York (Spring 2017). The syllabus and subsequent blog posts are republished with the permission of the author from her blog, alanalentin.net. Race, critical, and decolonial sociology is premised ...

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How to Get Organized: A Teach-In

Starr Foundation Hall, University Center, The New School, 63 5th avenue, 10th March 12-5PM

February 27, 2017 • by McKenzie Wark

The purpose of the teach-in is to share experience from different kinds of political organizing (broadly understood). Each of our panels feature participants who can describe (1) a situation in which they have been active and/or have firsthand knowledge (2) describe particular tactics and methods employed in that situation, and ...

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The False Premises of Alt-Right Ideology

Academics must understand how the Alt-Right sees the world if we are to resist it

February 20, 2017 • by Rachel McKinney

Adequately understanding the alt-right ideology requires us to see how it is different from other strains of racism, how it is different from political frameworks that it might seem superficially similar to (e.g. Marxist critique) and how it understands and responds to the left’s own narratives, frameworks, and discourse. Once ...

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Keep the Doors of American Universities Wide Open

A Letter from the President of the New School

February 16, 2017 • by David Van Zandt

With one signature, President Trump threatened the fundamental premise upon which America’s excellent universities, and indeed our country, has been built. The recent Executive Order banning entry into the United States by refugees, immigrants and citizens from seven predominantly Muslim nations is antithetical to the core values of inclusion and ...

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Citizens of the Cognisphere

February 15, 2017 • by Daniel Sauter

As we prepare a new generation of students for the computational regime (Brueck, 2016) we need to make room for cultural examination and critical reflection—not just to transcribe a liberal arts agenda in "an obligation to develop their abilities to think and live," (Deresiewicz, 2015) —but also to re-instill astonishment and ...

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Categories Outrun by Identities

Some Notes on Agnes’ Passing

February 15, 2017 • by Santiago Mandirola

The title of Garfinkel’s chapter on gender, “Passing and the managed achievement of sex status in an inter-sexed person,” is a title that already hints at not only how Garfinkel will approach the issue of gender but also the bent of his entire ethnomethodology. The continuous, present-progressive form of the ...

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What Black History Month Could Contribute

Teaching the truth of the Civil Rights Movement

February 15, 2017 • by Michael McQuillan

This trivialization denies young people their rightful awareness of the systemic nature of Jim Crow racism, along with the law-breaking and abuse of power by the southern state and local officials who sustained it. This prevents our youth from inheriting the magnificent legacy of unsung heroes and heroines who risked ...