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Design+Media Theory

December 30, 2016 • by McKenzie Wark

GLIB 5610 | Media + Design Theory Syllabus | Spring 2017 | v 5.0 | Our focus will be on key thinkers across the fields of media, design and technology. The course starts our everyday experience of designed and mediated environments, whether as creators or regular users (1-3). It then moves ...

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The Stack to Come

On Benjamin Bratton’s The Stack

December 28, 2016 • by McKenzie Wark

What I like most about Benjamin Bratton’s The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty (MIT Press, 2015) is firstly its close attention to what I would call the forces and relations of production. We really need to know how the world is made right now if it is ever to be ...

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Book notes from 2016

December 19, 2016 • by McKenzie Wark

These are the books I read and got around to working up notes on in 2016. Some will appear in much revised and edited form in: McKenzie Wark, General Intellects (Verso, 2017): https://www.versobooks.com/books/2446-general-intellects Some are lecture notes from 2016 classes, some for future classes in Liberal Studies at The New School: http://www.newschool.edu/nssr/liberal-studies/ Judith Butler, Notes ...

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Since Reagan, Older Workers in Rust-Belt States Flipped from Economic Winners to Losers

December 16, 2016 • by Teresa Ghilarducci

The unemployment rate for older workers age 55 is quite low – 3.5 % about 25% lower than the rate for all Americans of every age. And more good news -- real earnings for older workers across the nation are increasing. But the rosy news hides the downward mobility of workers in particular ...

Since Reagan, Older Workers in Rust-Belt States Flipped from Economic Winners to Losers

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Real Power? Real Money?

A reflection on Participatory Budgeting in New York

December 1, 2016 • by Eric Dirnbach

On a recent evening in New York City, I met with eight other people in my City Council Member’s local office, down the block from City College in Harlem. We were the community delegates tasked with discussing over 150 projects proposed at neighborhood assemblies. Our assignment was to score the ...

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Psychogeography and Speculative Design v2.1

November 12, 2016 • by McKenzie Wark

Another City for Another Life: Here is v2.0 of a possible course on psychogeography and speculative design. What follows is an effort to gather materials and ideas for such a course. Many thanks to everyone who proposed materials, much of which has been incorporated. (Special thanks to Dunne + Raby) Suggestions still ...

Psychogeography and Speculative Design v2.1

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Adventures in Hillaryland

High expectations. Unexpected failure.

November 9, 2016 • by Jo Freeman

I vote in Brooklyn. When I heard that Hillary’s election night watch party would be in the Javits Center on the Hudson River, I thought that somewhere in that 1.8 million square feet arena there might be room for me. In all the Presidential elections I’ve worked in, I’ve never been ...

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Karski’s Tragedy

Introduction of Nicholas Kristof at the Spirit of Jan Karski Award Ceremony

November 6, 2016 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

On November 1, 2016, in Tishman Auditorium of the New School, I had the honor to introduce Nicholas Kristof, this year's honoree at the Spirit of Jan Karski Award Ceremony. My introduction was informed by the works of Hannah Arendt and Erving Goffman, as they speak to each other and ...

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Dividuum

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 ...