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“Post-Truth,” And “Social Research”

Oxford English Dictionary’s word of 2016

December 28, 2016 • by Lydia Nobbs

What happens when facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief? This phenomenon is known as “post-truth,” a term that was named word of 2016 by the Oxford English Dictionary. When false news is seen as credible and the metrics of prediction have ...

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“Great Books Camp” as Political Education

A Reply to Molly Worthen

December 23, 2016 • by Michael Weinman

In “Can I Go to Great Books Camp?” which recently appeared in the New York Times, Molly Worthen provides an historical account of the development of the “Great Books” program and related curricula inside American universities. It is a report about the present deployment of such “canonical” works in various ...

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The Masturbatory Logic of Fake News Sites

December 22, 2016 • by Charles Innis

This post is part of the Bodies, Gender, and Domination OOPS Series. On December 4th a man walked into a warehouse-sized pizza and Ping-Pong establishment in Washington D.C. armed with a rifle and fired it once. Nobody was harmed, though pizza patrons fled the business and the neighborhood was put on lock-down ...

The Masturbatory Logic of Fake News Sites

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Caitlyn Jenner: Our Pharmacapornographic Hero

December 22, 2016 • by Miranda Young

This post is part of the Bodies, Gender, and Domination OOPS Series. In April of 2015, Caitlyn Jenner came out as a transgender woman on Diane Sawyer’s 20/20. Formerly known as Bruce Jenner, Caitlyn’s identity before her transition represented the paragon of what it meant to “be a man.” Caitlyn was ...

Caitlyn Jenner: Our Pharmacapornographic Hero

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Utopias of the Surface

December 22, 2016 • by Will Scarlett

Nothing is really visible, not even in the noon sun’s blinding reflection on the shimmering sea. A magical time, when gods appear. -Claudio Magris, A Different Sea Almost every day, I walk a few blocks west from my apartment to the Hudson River. This is one of the few places where the ...

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Politics of Small Things

December 13, 2016 • by Patrick Gilger, S.J.

This piece is part of the OOPS Series, "Social Interaction." Jeffrey Goldfarb’s “The Politics of Small Things” is a both an insightful work of social analysis and -- through this analysis itself -- an enactment of this-worldly hope in, as he might phrase it, these dark times. Instead of focusing on ...

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The Disaster Has Already Happened: Trump’s Victory Seen from Afar

Public Seminar Teach In

December 12, 2016 • by Benoit Challand

Trump’s Election has Already Been a Disaster Contrary to those who say that after inauguration day we will face a disaster for democracy, I maintain that Trump’s election has already lead to a disaster. Yet, starting with a statement that Trump’s election has been a disaster does not mean we have ...

The Disaster Has Already Happened: Trump’s Victory Seen from Afar

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Social Resistance

May We Rise

December 11, 2016 • by Jeremy Varon

I begin with the satisfaction of saying in public what so many of us have said in private: What a fucking nightmare! Like millions of others, my household on election night was one of inconsolable grief and rage. Within the seas of pain were especially heartbreaking scenes: immigrant and Muslim ...

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Teaching After Trump

November 18, 2016 • by Donald L. Anderson

I woke up on Wednesday morning, like so many others, heavily distraught by the win of President-elect Donald J. Trump. I felt as though the wind had been knocked out of me. My mind scrambled to explain how this could happen. I then felt a painful concern for my fellow ...

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The Mass Psychology of Trumpism

Old and New Myths

November 17, 2016 • by Chiara Bottici

Having spent quite some time studying the philosophy of political myth and, in particular, of fascist narratives, I could not but perceive something troubling in Donald Trump’s presidential campaign slogan: “Make America Great Again!” Every word is important. Let us explore each one by one. ...

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Proclaim The New School a Sanctuary Campus for Undocumented Students

An Open Letter to President Van Zandt and Provost Marshall

November 15, 2016 • by Alexandra Délano Alonso, Miriam Ticktin and Jonathan Bach

The result of the U.S. election cannot be understood in isolation from the global context of migration and refugee flows. Fear and ignorance about what causes people to leave their communities, and about the effects this has in the societies they join are at the core of xenophobic reactions and ...

Proclaim The New School a Sanctuary Campus for Undocumented Students

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Freud and Irigaray in Grey Gardens

Penis Envy as Male Phantasy

November 15, 2016 • by Florian Endres

This post is part of the Bodies, Gender, and Domination OOPS Series. The American documentary Grey Gardens, directed by the Maysles brothers, is a celebrated landmark of its genre. The viewer enters the life of Edith “Big Edie” Beale and her daughter Edith “Little Edie” Beale. The peculiar couple lives in ...