Scholarly Advice for Dark Times Professor Eugene Thacker teaches students at the New School the philosophy of pessimism. Some people look to the stock market to read the national mood. Eugene Thacker, a philosopher at the New School, can look to the enrollment numbers in
Please note that the deadline for submissions has been extended to April 15, 2018. Call For Papers: Shift: Graduate Journal of Visual and Material Culture, Issue 11 BLOOD AND EARTH AND SOIL Oppositional claims to land, heritage, and state have rapidly crescendoed in the last year of
Ideas for understanding the mediated world by Shannon Mattern The Ever-Expanding Field of Media Studies
Faculty member Shannon Mattern has been invited to take part in a panel discussion, hosted by Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia, about the future of smart cities and the City of Vancouver’s involvement in Canada’s Smart Cities Challenge. “Technicity: Equity, Innovation,
Faculty member Shannon Mattern was interviewed for this new BBC 4 documentary about Marshall McLuhan.
Breaking Through: Textures & Aesthetics of Rupture English Student Association Graduate Conference The Graduate Center, City University of New York March 23rd, 2018 breakingthrough.commons.gc.cuny.edu // esaconference2018@gmail.com Call For Proposals: “The degree is in disruption,” announces the homepage of the USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy for
Faculty Member Shannon Mattern Publishes New Article, Discusses Her New Book in Helsinki Shannon Mattern has published a new article on underground archives, the geology of storage, and preservation paranoia in Harvard’s New Geographies journal. She’ll also be discussing her new book with Jussi Parikka at PUBLICS, a curatorial agency
Happy December everyone! Come and join the last Thesis Collective meeting of the fall semester! The fourth and final Thesis Collective meeting of the fall semester will be on Friday December 8th from 4:00 PM-6:00 PM – location: 79 Fifth Avenue (the Media Studies Loft), Room 1618 (the classroom right in front of the
INWARD<->OUTWARD: (DE)CONSTRUCTING EXPERIENCES IN PUBLIC SPACE Western University: Graduate Conference John Labatt Visual Arts Centre The Graduate Students of Art History and Visual Arts would like to announce a graduate student conference titled Inward<->Outward: (De)Constructing Experiences in Public Space. Possible topics include but are not
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For this presentation I will discuss my soon to be released book, which examines the vulnerability of the human body and asks how human beings contend with loss. Employing psychoanalytic theory and literary analysis, Freud’s Jaw and Other Lost Objects tracks three exemplary figures, psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, poet
Faculty Member Shannon Mattern Publishes New Article on Cartographic Intelligences Shannon Mattern’s “Mapping Intelligent Agents,” a paper she presented in June as a keynote lecture at Kings College and University College London and in September at MIT, was published in Places Journal on September
Dear School of Media Studies MA Thesis and Independent Research/Production Students, Welcome to Fall Semester! We hope your summers were all restful and enjoyable. As the foliage falls and the weather gets a bit colder, we want to welcome you to join our monthly Thesis
VISUALIZATION AND KNOWLEDGE: MODELLING, DISCOVERY, DISPLAY Public Lecture Wed. September 20 from 6:00 – 7:30 PM 63 5th Ave, UL 105 The relationship between knowledge and visual forms has changed as tools and platforms used for data display, discovery, and modeling have become ubiquitous. These practices raise
Shannon Mattern’s “A City Is Not a Computer,” which she published in February in Places Journal, has been translated and republished in Portuguese (for the activist organization Instituto Intersaber), German (for the Vienna-based dérive: Zeitschrift für Stadtforschung), and French (for the international newspaper Courrier International). She’ll also be presenting a talk,
The team at gnovis is excited to welcome submissions for the Fall 2017 Journal. gnovis Journal—Georgetown University’s student-operated, peer-reviewed, bi-annual, academic journal of Communication, Culture & Technology—is now accepting submissions for our Fall 2017 edition until September 22, 2017, at 11:59 p.m. We welcome submissions of original research from graduate
VISUALIZATION AND KNOWLEDGE: MODELLING, DISCOVERY, DISPLAY Public Lecture Wed. September 20 from 6:00 – 7:30 PM 63 5th Ave, UL 105 The relationship between knowledge and visual forms has changed as tools and platforms used for data display, discovery, and modeling have become ubiquitous. These practices raise
CALL FOR PAPERS JOCIS is a Scientific Journal, created by MediaXXI publishing house, aimed to the creative and cultural industries and studies, focused on the academic productions but also oriented to professionals and market who want to stay informed and expand their knowledge. The JOCIS
CALL FOR SEMINAR PROPOSALS INTEGRATIVE PHD FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM – COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH SEMINARS http://integrativephd.org/seminars Through the aegis of the Integrative PhD Program, Mellon Foundation funds are available for New School faculty to develop collaborative courses to be first offered in 2018 – 19. Supplemental salary
CALL FOR PROPOSALS The Rutgers-Camden Digital Studies Center welcomes panel proposals for the 2018 R-CADE Symposium, April 20, 2018. The Rutgers-Camden Archive of Digital Ephemera (R-CADE) provides scholars and artists the opportunity to do hands-on work with digital ephemera. R-CADE The R-CADE defines ephemera broadly––nearly
Shannon Mattern writes about archival images, gives lecture at MIT Faculty member Shannon Mattern wrote a short essay on archival images for PROPS, a zine focused on image-based methods published by Yale and MIT. She’ll also be giving a talk, “Mapping’s Intelligent Agents,” at the MIT Department
With this issue of cléo, : an issue on short films! vol. 5, issue 2 There’s a challenge to writing tight, and all of the authors rose to the occasion, exploring their films and filmmakers with keen, concise nuance. Monica Uszerowicz reflects on her first sense
Faculty member Shannon Mattern published “Closet Archive” (Places Journal), an essay on the history of the closet, where, for centuries, we’ve stored our dead media; made new media; incubated epiphanies, dreams, fears; and negotiated identities. The Paris Review featured the essay in its recommended reading.
For the upcoming 6th Asian Borderlands conference in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan), we invite panels and papers that address the following questions: How are borderlands in Asia creating alternative spaces for heritages, self-definition and the extraction of resources? How can these cases serve to rethink social theories
Anti-Conference Conference: Undermining the Reproduction of Privilege, CfP A transdisciplinary biannual graduate conference organized by the German section of German and Romance Languages and Literatures Department of Johns Hopkins University December 1st and 2nd 2017 – Baltimore, MD This conference addresses the shapes resistance takes within
Faculty member Shannon Mattern is helping to moderate the “Digital Social Memory: Ethics, Privacy and Representation in Digital Preservation” conference, hosted by Rhizome this Saturday, February 4, at The New Museum. For more information, visit The New Museum’s website. With the in-house development of Webrecorder —an initiative
Faculty member Shannon Mattern published a new article on spatial archives, map libraries, and the roles of archivists and librarians in protecting our information. Take a look. Public In/Formation
Peter Asaro was quoted in this Philadelphia Inquirer piece on Drones a couple weeks ago: http://www.philly.com/philly/living/Rise_of_the_drones.html He was also featured in David Levine’s latest podcast for HearsayCulture on Stanford Radio KZSU: http://www.hearsayculture.com/show-236-prof-peter-asaro-on-killer-robots-posted/