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Education

Media and Micro-Politics

Media, the New Authoritarianism and its alternatives from the perspective of the sociology of interaction

January 30, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

I have been conducting a seminar on “media and micro-politics” in a variety of different forms since publishing The Politics of Small Things, often with my dear friend and colleague, Daniel Dayan. This year the newest member of the The New School ‘s sociology department, Julia Sonnevend, the author of a brilliant ...

Feature

Time Inc., Massage Envy, and Net Neutrality

Past Present Episode 110

December 27, 2017 • by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Nicole Hemmer and Neil J. Young

In this episode, Natalia, Neil, and Niki debate the purchase of Time Inc. by the Meredith Corporation, sexual assault claims at a chain of massage spas, and net neutrality.

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Time Inc., Massage Envy, and Net Neutrality

Feature

Trump’s Head and Women’s Blood

Is Kathy Griffin’s controversial image a work of protest art?

December 2, 2017 • by Lisa Aslanian

Kathy Griffin released a picture of herself, wearing a navy or royal blue pussy-bow blouse and holding up a faux severed and bleeding head of Donald Trump. How to describe her gaze? Emotionless? Steely? Resolved. I am not going to spend this essay defending the image or deconstructing the fallout around ...

Feature

Breitbart, Bannon, Trump, and the Frankfurt School

A strange meeting of minds

September 28, 2017 • by Andreas Huyssen

Breitbart's stated goal in creating the news outlet that bears his name was to attack the "Democrat media complex" with the help of the Internet and social media. Bannon, inspired by Lenin, Julius Evola (a darling of the Italian fascists and today popular with Greek neo-Nazis and Hungarian nationalists), and ...

Multi Media

MS-13, R. Kelly, and Doctor Who

Past Present: Episode 95

August 22, 2017 • by Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela and Neil J. Young

In this week's episode, Natalia, Niki, and Neil debate the place of MS-13 in the history of street gangs, R. Kelly's sex cult, and the controversy over the first woman actor to play Doctor Who.

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Education

Our Dark Times

Setting the Intellectual and Political Context for the Investigation of Media, The New Authoritarianism and Its Alternatives

July 7, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

This seminar has a long history, predating the Democracy and Diversity Institute, and born as an oppositionist activity in the good old bad days of previously existing socialism. Adam Michnik first imagined it, after he received an honorary doctorate from The New School in a clandestine award ceremony in 1984 in ...

Education

The Media, the New Authoritarianism and Its Alternatives

On Teaching, Once Again, in the Democracy and Diversity Institute in Poland, syllabus included

July 3, 2017 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

This is the 26th year of The New School’s Democracy and Diversity Institute. I have participated in just about all of them. One year, my father was gravely ill and I had to bug out. Recently, I have missed a few years, as I have been following a promise to ...

The Media, the New Authoritarianism and Its Alternatives

Education

The New Public Sphere

Invisible Actors, Intangible Codes

May 18, 2017 • by Alysha Khodaiji

A well-informed public is one of the key elements for the functioning of a democracy. However we must acknowledge the paradoxical nature of the present public that is global in size but limited to conversing through a computer screen. These days it seems a well-informed public is a public that ...

Feature

Football, Slavery, and Song

On Not Standing for the National Anthem

May 8, 2017 • by Joseph Heathcott

On August 14, 2016 during a pre-season game, San Francisco 49er quarterback Colin Kaepernick remained seated while his teammates stood for the National Anthem. At first it was unclear why he stayed on the bench. But a few weeks later, Kaepernick made his reasons known to journalists, linking the anthem ...

Reviews

Uncovering Freakonomics Radio

A Review

April 19, 2017 • by Tracy Varites

Freakonomics Radio, a podcast produced by WNYC Studios, explores the “hidden side of everything.” Inspired by the book, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economics Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, written in 2005 by economist Steven D. Levitt and journalist, Stephen J. Dubner, it touches on a range of topics from crime ...