Scholarship for fall/winter 2024–25 programs
July 19–August 26, 2024
The New Centre for Research & Practice is now accepting scholarship applications for its fall/winter 2024–25 certificate programs. Applications are open from July 19 to August 26, 2024. Prospective students must submit a writing sample and a cover letter detailing their intellectual interests and need for financial support. Successful applicants from the Global South will automatically receive a 50% scholarship on their tuition. Half of the full scholarship recipients are from the Global South, and half are women. This season marks The New Centre’s tenth anniversary.
Reflecting on a decade of growth and independence as an online educational institution in arts and humanities, The New Centre attributes its success to the support of its network of instructors, members, students, researchers, and institutional partners. Celebratory illustrations by artists R.H. Quaytman, Jean-Luc Moulène, and Jon Rafman accompany this announcement.
The upcoming fall/winter season will feature seminars and workshops with contemporary and practical insights on thinkers like Alfred North Whitehead, Antonin Artaud, Charles S. Peirce, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilbert Simondon, Herbert Marcuse, Louis Althusser, Roger Caillois, Sigmund Freud, and Wilfrid Sellars. Topics covered will include cognitive mapping, fear, feminism, forensic investigations, human geography, geopolitics, machine intelligence, philosophy of biology, and planetary collapse.
The seminars and workshops will be taught by renowned instructors such as 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. Additionally, five seminars will be led by former students.
Workshop highlights include Angelicism01’s vertical cinema and philosophical practice of online posting, Derek Hales and Neil Spiller’s post-digital architecture, Manuel Correa’s forensic investigation for documentary filmmaking, and Romulo Moraes’s music criticism focusing on pop music.
The New Centre recently presented HYPER ANNOTATIONS 3.0 during the Venice Biennale, now available on YouTube. This year also marks an expansion of their publishing platform, &&&, featuring books such as “Minor Bestiary” by Eduarda Neves, “Model is the Message” edited by Mohammad Salemy, and “Phenomenon & Difference” by François Laruelle.
In collaboration with the Centre for Philosophy of Education at UCL Institute of Education, The New Centre co-organized the “Marxism & The Pittsburgh School” conference in June, featuring keynotes by Amanda Beech, Ray Brassier, and Vanessa Wills. Proceedings will be made publicly available.
The new Double Bill lecture series offers a platform for students and researchers to present their work. Sessions include “Dis / Integration,” “Dissonance / The Archive,” and “Thought / Worlding.”
The New Centre is developing an institutional partnership with Zeppelin University, culminating in a 2026 Summer School focused on “Planetary Survival in the Age of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).”
To celebrate its tenth anniversary, The New Centre offers reduced rates for seminar credits, applicable through spring/summer 2025. Enrollment is also open for spring/summer 2024 seminars and workshops.
