July 19–August 26, 2024
The scholarship applications for our certificate programs are open from July 19 to August 26. To apply, please complete the application form. Applicants must submit a writing sample and a cover letter detailing their intellectual interests and need for financial relief. If accepted, applicants from the Global South will automatically receive 50 percent scholarship on their tuition. Half of our full scholarship recipients are from the Global South, and half are women. The New Centre is ten years old!
While celebrating our tenth anniversary this Season, we reflect on a decade of maintaining our independence, surviving and growing as an online educational institution in arts and humanities, thanks to the support of our network of instructors, members, students, researchers and Institutional partners. To celebrate, three artists from our network, R.H. Quaytman, Jean-Luc Moulène, and Jon Rafman have granted us the permission to illustrate this announcement with their works.
The upcoming fall/winter 2024–25 season will feature seminars and workshops with contemporary and practical takes on Alfred North Whitehead, Antonin Artaud, Charles S. Peirce, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilbert Simondon, Herbert Marcuse, Louis Althusser, Roger Caillois, Sigmund Freud, and Wilfrid Sellars. Our Seminars will also touch on topics such as cognitive mapping, fear, feminism, forensic investigations, human geography, geopolitics, machine intelligence, philosophy of biology, and planetary collapse.
These Seminars and Workshops will be taught by Angelicism01, Austin Gross & Franziska Aigner, Ben Woodard, Carl Olsson, Cécile Malaspina, Jason Mohaghegh, J.-P. Caron, Kerstin Fuchs, Magdalena Krysztoforska, Manuel Correa, Neil Spiller & Derek Hales, Pablo Larios, Rainer J. Henshe, Reza Negarestani, Richard Hames, Romulo Moraes, Sam Forsythe, and Stuart Kendall. The upcoming fall/winter 2024–25 season features five Seminars and Workshops taught by our former students. For more details, please visit our seminars & workshops page.
In addition to our Seminars, we are presenting these workshops: Angelicism01 is offering a workshop on vertical cinema, and the philosophical practice of online posting. Derek Hales and Neil Spiller will conduct a workshop on post-digital architecture. Manuel Correa presents a workshop on forensic investigation for documentary filmmaking, and Romulo Moraes will deliver a workshop on writing music criticism, focusing particularly on pop music.
In April, we delivered HYPER ANNOTATIONS 3.0 as part of this year’s Venice Biennale opening days, featuring conversations with artists, curators, and art professionals, now available on our YouTube Channel.
This year is marked by an expansion of our publishing platform, &&&. Our books that are currently available for purchase are Minor Bestiary, by Eduarda Neves, translated by Diogo Montenegro; Model is the Message, edited by Mohammad Salemy, and Phenomenon & Difference, by François Laruelle, translated by Lindsay Lerman.
Our &&& Platform continues to publish original texts and translations of important works in philosophy, art, technology, and social thought. To submit a text, please contact editors [at] thenewcentre.org.
In partnership with The Centre for Philosophy of Education at the Institute of Education, University College London, in June we co-organized Marxism & The Pittsburgh School, featuring keynotes by Amanda Beech, Ray Brassier, and Vanessa Wills. The proceedings of the Conference will be made publicly available this year.
We have launched a new Public Program of Double Bill lectures designed to give our students and researchers a platform to present their intellectual output. The three Sessions that have already been hosted are: Dis / Integration, Dissonance / The Archive, and Thought / Worlding.
Following the participation of our Organizer, Mohammad Salemy, in Zeppelin University’s lecture series’ “Being Wrong,” this April he co-delivered “Brain-Eating Zombies: The academic form versus knowledge production” with Researcher Rafael Moscardi. Currently, we are developing an institutional partnership with Zeppelin University, engaging with their annual lecture series and organizing joint workshops, culminating in a Summer School in 2026 focused on the question of Planetary Survival in the Age of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
To celebrate our 10th anniversary, we are offering our seminar credits at reduced rates. These credits can be used towards upcoming seminars through the end of our forthcoming spring/summer 2025 season. You can also still enroll in our spring/summer 2024 forthcoming seminars and workshops by Ben Woodard, Cécile Malaspina & Liza Featherstone, Daniel Sacilotto, Jason Mohaghegh, José Antonio Magalhães, and Joyelle McSweeney.
Lastly, we congratulate some of our students and researchers on their recent achievements: Joel Blanco and Miguel Leiro, for their curatorial work on the third edition of Mayrit Biennial, Reza Ardestani for his acceptance into the Southern California Institute of Architecture master’s program, Denisse Vega de Santiago for her new role as Design Tutor at the Faculty of Architecture, Design & Communication at La Salle University in Mexico City and Carl Olsson for obtaining his PhD in Human Geography from Newcastle University.
Become a New Centre member! In addition to accessing our Archive containing 2000+ hours of content delivered by internationally renowned thinkers, members can audit all ongoing and upcoming seminars. You can subscribe for two-year or one-year membership at reduced rates during the scholarship application period. Existing Members can also take advantage of this offer, extending their ongoing membership beyond its expiry date. We also offer institutional membership for university departments, museums, and galleries for a flat annual fee of 500 USD during our scholarship application period.
