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Literature

A New Media Artist from Tehran at The New School

Her photographs and poetry make the ordinary seem extraordinary

July 3, 2024 • by Alexia Underwood and Zohreh Zadbood

Persian poetry is a treasure. I never thought that I would be interested in poetry in any other language, but when my soul encountered English poetry, I felt a new magic....

A New Media Artist from Tehran at The New School

Education

The Post-Brown Realignment and the Structure of Partitioned Publics

Public schools are crucial infrastructures in the reproduction of social inequality

June 12, 2024 • by Ujju Aggarwal

Public schools are crucial infrastructures of the reproduction of social inequality and the US carceral state. ...

The Post-<em>Brown</em> Realignment and the Structure of Partitioned Publics

Podcast

Typewriter Combat

Episode 54: A conversation with historian Ronnie Grinberg about her new book, Write Like A Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals

May 23, 2024 • by Claire Potter

A conversation with historian Ronnie Grinberg about her new book, "Write Like A Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals"...

Migration

New York’s Existential Crisis over Migration

How can the process that created the city also be responsible for destroying it?

April 2, 2024 • by Achilles Kallergis

More than anywhere else, in New York, the migrant crisis—essentially a migration governance crisis—is an existential one: it interrogates not only the capacity of the city to welcome newcomers but also the city’s broader prospects. ...

New York’s Existential Crisis over Migration

Habitats

Testing the Waters in Gotham

A look at how residents throughout the city’s history have chosen what to drink

March 20, 2024 • by Liviu Chelcea

The three forms of water distribution form a fluid archive of community formation, civic pride, and the many different possible ways New Yorkers can choose the water they drink....

Literature

The Little Prince Haunts New York

Following Antoine de Saint-Exupéry from the Ritz to the East River

March 5, 2024 • by Albert Nguyen

When I moved to New York, I set out to discover how my new adopted home had influenced that sense of tristesse in The Little Prince, which Saint-Exupéry wrote during his 1941–1943 stay in the city....

New York City

The Elevator Paradox at The New School for Social Research

What goes up doesn’t always come down

February 7, 2024 • by Austin Tannenbaum

The elevators at The New School’s 6 East 16th Street building, hide a perplexing paradox. Known for delays and unpredictable patterns, these lifts challenge the student....

The Elevator Paradox at The New School for Social Research

Film & Performing Arts

An Experimental Music Community Grows in Brooklyn

International Anthem Recording Company is changing the face of free jazz

December 11, 2023 • by NJ Smith

A key example of the experimental spirit in the artistic community that International Anthem is documenting is the work of Alabaster DePlume, an English saxophonist, poet, composer, and activist. Last year, in producing the album GOLD, DePlume assembled a group of musicians to record in sessions that were both safe ...

An Experimental Music Community Grows in Brooklyn

Activism

Documenting the Little Abuses

An excerpt from Abolishing Surveillance: Digital Media Activism and State Repression

October 11, 2023 • by Chris Robé

El Grito’s video activism is part of a long line of media activist efforts that labored on the front lines against exploitation, racial stereotyping, and state violence. ...

Rats: A Cautionary Tail

Report from the Rat Academy

Human New Yorkers learn about pest control in Rat Academy. Why should we assume local rodents are any less organized?

April 5, 2023 • by Radhika Subramaniam

A report from the Rat Academy about the learning, discourse, and fellowship in the actions of daily life as a rat....

Rats: A Cautionary Tail

“Everyone Has a Role in Rat Control”

Inside NYC’s Rat Academy and Pest Control Services

April 3, 2023 • by Caroline Bragdon and Katy Einerson

The more community members get involved in addressing the rat problem, the better it will be for all of us....

<strong>“Everyone Has a Role in Rat Control”</strong>

Migration

The Dilemma of a Fragmented Self

Mass migrations, language, and the future of identity

November 9, 2022 • by Ken Hu

How can language create such a convoluted way of experiencing the everyday world? We can explore this phenomenon with two linked concepts: the speech act and the discourse community. ...