Artifactualities: Derrida and the Hauntology of Media Thursday, October 16, 2014 4:00-8:00 PM | 239 Greene Street, Floor 8 | New York University RSVP Jacques Derrida was the most brilliant and influential philosopher of media of our time. He had … Continue reading “Artifactualities: Derrida and the Hauntology of Media”
Living Labor: Marxism and Performance Studies presents: Beyond Marxism and Performance Studies: a closing plenary session convened in honor of ST Collective Member José Esteban Muñoz. WHEN: Sunday, April 13, 2014, 3:00 – 5:00 pm WHERE: NYU, 721 Broadway, Room … Continue reading “Living Labor: Marxism and Performance Studies Conference”
A Conference Convened by The Cultures of Finance Working Group at NYU Institute for Public Knowledge March 21, 2014 20 Cooper Square, 7th Floor This one day conference brings together a range of heterodox voices on questions of the culture … Continue reading “Gifts, Derivatives and Socialities”
This March, students at UC Davis have launched a multimedia exhibition to bring attention to the issue of student debt. One Debt consists of two parts — a physical component and a virtual social media component — which play off of One … Continue reading “One University, One Debt”
The Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at The Graduate Center at CUNY hosts: BDS AND ACADEMIC FREEDOM: A Panel Discussion With Bill Mullen (Purdue), Radhika Sainath (Palestine Solidarity Legal Support), Sherry Wolf (International Socialists Review), ST Collective Member and Web … Continue reading “BDS and Academic Freedom”
What are the theoretical and political repercussions of education outside of a traditional classroom? Whether spurred on by a tidal wave of student debt, changes in technology, or new and nontraditional learning scenarios emerging from various academic disciplines, DIY education is … Continue reading “Educational Outliers Unconference”
THE COLLOQUIUM FOR UNPOPULAR CULTURE presents: THE SOUND OF WHAT CANNOT BE: An Evening Celebrating the Life and Work of Stuart Hall SCREENING: The Stuart Hall Project (dir. John Akomfrah, 2013) + reflections and reminiscences by prominent New York intellectuals including … Continue reading “An Evening Celebrating the Life and Work of Stuart Hall”
Social Text Collective Member Ashley Dawson joins David Harvey, Faris Al-Ahmad Zwiran, and Rasha Arabi of the CUNY Graduate Center and Ali Issa of the War Resisters League and Jadaliyya for a panel discussion co-sponsored by the Center for Place, Culture, and … Continue reading “The War Here and Abroad: CUNY and U.S. Empire”
Social Text Collective Member Alondra Nelson joins fellow catalogue contributors on November 21st for a panel discussion of “The Shadows Took Shape,” an exhibition on Afrofuturist aesthetics – now on view at the Studio Museum in Harlem. For tickets, visit … Continue reading “The Shadows Took Shape”
Jesse Weaver Shipley, who will be published in ST 117, will appear at a film screening of Is It Sweet?: Tales of an African Superstar in New York. at the CUNY-Graduate Center on November 5th. His article, “Television Tricksters: Parody and Contradiction in Ghanian Melodrama,” will be featured in the … Continue reading “Is It Sweet?: Tales of an African Superstar in New York”
CUNY Graduate Center, Center for Humanities Apr 11, 2013, 6:30pm, room 9206 Education outside of a traditional classroom is on the rise. Again. Spurred on by DIY culture, a tidal wave of student debt, and changes in technology, new non-traditional … Continue reading “Experiments in Extra-Institutional Education”
Graduate Center, CUNY — Center for Humanities Nov 26, 2012, 6:30pm | The Skylight Room (9100) Ashley Dawson, Matthew K. Gold, Michael Mandiberg, Tavia Nyong’o What are the radical possibilities of open access publishing? This panel will bring together a … Continue reading “Digital Publishing Today”
Zone Books is pleased to announce the publication of Sensible Politics: The Visual Culture of Nongovernmental Activism, edited by Meg McLagan and Yates McKee. Political acts are encoded in medial forms–feet marching on a street, punch holes on a card, … Continue reading “Sensible Politics: Book Release”
“Apophatic Sovereignty Before the Law at Guantanamo”
Allen Feldman
Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication
New York University
Date: Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Time: 6-8 PM
Location: 6 East 16th Street, Room 1103
SPONSORED BY THE POLITICS DEPARTMENT, NSSR
Of interest to Social Text readers: Sep 14, 2012 3:30 PM – 6:00 PM 20 Cooper Square, New York, NY | NYU Journalism 7th Floor Commons The Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia at NYU and the Arthur L. Carter … Continue reading “Pussy Riot: Performance, Politics, and Protest”
