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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 ...

American Elections: A Conversation on the Left

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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 ...

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A Burkini Removed and Secularism Exposed

August 26, 2016 • by Marianne Le Nabat

France has apparently overturned its “burkini ban.” This happened after images surfaced of French police forcing a woman to undress on a beach. It’s worth pausing to consider what secularism even means at this point. Secularism, at the level of the state, means setting public institutions and laws on a universalist footing ...

A Burkini Removed and Secularism Exposed

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Issues in 21c Critical Theory

August 23, 2016 • by McKenzie Wark

Below is the course I'll be offering in the Liberal Studies Masters program at the New School for Social Research this semester. There's links below to (most of) the blog posts that will serve as lecture notes. GLIB 5555 | LCST 4458 | Issues in 21 Century Critical Theory | How ...

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It’s Racism, Stupid: The Populist Challenge Going Forward

August 16, 2016 • by Sanford Schram

With the rise (and now fall) of Donald J. Trump’s presidential candidacy, social scientists have moved quickly to understand the surprising levels of support for a person so widely recognized to be unfit for public office. Initial speculation suggested his support grew from multiple sources among the American populace, particularly ...

It’s Racism, Stupid: The Populist Challenge Going Forward

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ULEC2851 | Work, Love, Learn, Play: Our Lives on the Internet

August 16, 2016 • by Claire Potter

This OOPS course begins on Monday August 29. It introduces you to the practice of contemporary history, the history of the future, and the emerging field of Internet Studies. We will explore networked lives through films, fiction, creative non-fiction and critical readings that examine digital culture and virtual relationships. Weekly topics ...