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On Gerald Raunig

November 3, 2016 • by McKenzie Wark

Like Moliere's Monsieur Jourdain, who was so surprised to learn that all these years he has been speaking prose, people are often shocked to learn that they think in concepts. It’s not just us theorists who make up funny meanings for funny words. Take the word individual. It seems ordinary enough. ...

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Journey to Standing Rock

November 2, 2016 • by Margaret A. Smith

These are photographs from October 2016 at Standing Rock when I came to join the Water Protectors. I wanted to share them in this venue so that people who wish to build upon them or use them for a syllabus are free to do so. With so many images being ...

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The Standing Rock Syllabus Project

On behalf of the New York City Stands with Standing Rock Collective

October 21, 2016 • by Matt Chrisler, Jaskiran Dhillon and Audra Simpson

As Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars and organizers who engage in studies of Indigenous life, politics, and education, settler colonialism, and decolonization, we stand in solidarity with the Indigenous struggle to stop the 1,172 mile Dakota Access Pipeline. Projected to transport hydraulically fractured (or “fracked”) natural gas from the Bakken Oil ...

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I Would Die 4 U

October 21, 2016 • by Ricky Tucker

This submissions was part of the #PurpleReigns: A Tribute to Prince event hosted at the New School, Friday, September 23rd. The Memories: Where do I start? Like many of us, I waited 18 some odd years to strategically play 1999 at 11:59 pm, December 31, 1999. I danced on New Year’s Eve, roughly ...

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Raspberry Beret

October 21, 2016 • by Claire Potter

This submissions was part of the #PurpleReigns: A Tribute to Prince event hosted at the New School, Friday, September 23rd. Lesbians loved Prince. And butch lesbians, like me, particularly loved Prince, seeing ourselves in his gender-bendy performances. “Raspberry Beret,” originally recorded in 1982, was released by Prince and the Revolution in 1985 ...

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The Ballad of Dorothy Parker

October 21, 2016 • by Simon Critchley

This submissions was part of the #PurpleReigns: A Tribute to Prince event hosted at the New School, Friday, September 23rd. Thanks to Aly and especially Pam Tillis. I want to thank Pam. We did a David Bowie event here at the New School in February which was very moving and a ...

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New School Event: Jan Karski, the Man who Tried to Stop the Holocaust

October 15, 2016 • by Karolina Koziura

In the midst of World War II, Jan Karski, a courier for the Polish underground, bravely crossed the Warsaw Ghetto and Nazi transit camp in order to deliver eyewitness testimony about the situation of Jews in occupied Poland and carry his reports to the governments in the United Kingdom and ...

New School Event: Jan Karski, the Man who Tried to Stop the Holocaust

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Psychogeography and Speculative Design

October 9, 2016 • by McKenzie Wark

Another City for Another Life: I’m starting work on a course, possibly a collaborative one, that would have three components. 1. Psychogeography, as a way of moving through the city, gathering a knowledge of its ambiences, but concentrating on its special moments. 2. Unitary Urbanism, or the practice of imagining another ...

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Identity & Difference

September 29, 2016 • by Firat M. Haciahmetoglu

A couple of months ago, I attended a symposium in Sweden on Europe and the “refugee problem.” I presented a paper in which I celebrated neither cultural differences nor cultural identity, neither cosmopolitanism nor nationalism. Instead, I underlined the necessary interplay between identity and difference, in the sense that there ...

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American Elections: A Conversation on the Left

In 2016 Andrew Arato and Nancy Fraser looked at the coming election. This is what they had to say.

September 26, 2016 • by Nancy Fraser and Andrew Arato

This dialogue was originally published on September 26 2016: as we make the turn into a new election year, Public Seminar returned to how these influential political theorists imagined left politics. Arato: Nancy we have had a conversation about the elections a week ago in Great Evremond, Mass, and one thing you ...

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Africa contra Hegel

September 24, 2016 • by McKenzie Wark

There was once a fantasy, shared by left and right alike, that the states of the under-developed world could come, whether by leaps or by steps, to approximate those of the so-called developed world, as if they represented some kind of historical destiny. This idea belongs to what one might ...

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Why Study the Internet? An Introduction

September 2, 2016 • by Claire Potter

This post is the first installment of the OOPs Course Work, Love, Learn Play: Our Lives on the Internet. An edited version of my introductory lecture, it provides a provisional answer to the question: what is this course about? This course is about discovery. It is about new things, some of which ...