The Enigma of Rescue
On a recent history of The New School for Social Research
Pizza Rat, a Totem of Our Time
Humans, animals, and life in 2015
For a brief moment in late September, New York City had a new celebrity: Pizza Rat. This furry character -- either endearingly repulsive, or repulsively endearing, depending on your sensibility -- appeared in most of our social media feeds after a quick-fingered commuter snapped ...
Althusserians Anonymous (3)
On Media Monstration and the Politics of Small Things
An ongoing discussion with Jeffrey Goldfarb
This post is the first of two making a series of points: Here I answer Jeff Goldfarb’s points in the post he devoted to our common classes. In the second, I will stress a couple of issues that have to do with my central concern: the role of media as ...