New School University is shutting down programs, PhD admissions have been paused, and faculty are now receiving emails to resign. Of course, this isn't the first crisis, BUT the administration's response hasn't always been like today's revamped austerity "shock therapy.” 👇🏽

🔥 Join us for the 2024 edition of the Political Concepts Conference—Our Unavoidable Present! The New School for Social Research, October 4-5🔥

🧩A new lexicon entry is available on our website!🧩 John Cayley, Literature, https://t.co/af3OSVo3ut: “Consider this invalid—idolatrous?—but compelling syllogism: Literature is text. Literature is language. Therefore, text is language”

New Lexicon Entry! 🧩 Erin Graff Zivin | Exposure ( https://t.co/479p4TBLbf) is now available on our website "I propose that we expose exposure, that exposure be understood constatively and performatively, as both concept and method." 📸 Image Courtesy of @eringraffzivin

Day 2 of Political Concepts Graduate Conference! Miranda Young discusses Legibility Camila Lobo discusses Consciousness Raising

Panel 3 of Political Concepts Graduate Conference! Dalton Lackey (Maryland) - Radicalism Maximilian Fenner (Cambridge) - Scarcity

Tomorrow, at The New School for Social Research! @NSSRNews

“Imperception” by Alex Moskowitz is the second entry of our Literature edition! Check out the essay at https://t.co/1jTUZE9Mzm “What I want to think about here is how the senses demarcate the limits of political possibility”

Our Issue 7, "The Literature Edition," is now out! Check our first entry: @bonnie_honig on Performativity ( https://t.co/o5FwePKbi8). "Reading literarily, we find a wayward, crowd-gathering and crowd-dispersing bull that sneaks up on Austin and his readers."

"Consigning violence . . . to the domos suggests that the minimal violence that happens in the house stays in the house rather than spinning out of control in public." "Domestic Violence" by Barbara Nagel is now out on Political Concepts! https://t.co/tahYlJFWE5

"The specter of 'likeness' provides the privileged figure of modern political language" "Like" by Jacques Lezra is now out on Political Concepts! Check it out: https://t.co/Vz6IyYeqRf

Book review now online! 'Handbook of Critical Environmental Politics' edited by Luigi Pellizzoni, Emanuele Leonardi, and Viviana Asara. Reviewed for us by Heather Alberro @AlberroHeather https://t.co/qi1TTUQI6v

Jones deals with the entanglements of land dispossession, Black disvalue, fungibility, and logics of elimination. The knotting of these strands is part of the ongoing process of re-creating Indigenous and Black peoples’ oppressions in ways that block unity and solidarity.

"For in the knot of the dread, those forms of suffering are our own." Janine Jones' Dreadlocked Logics of Impossibility—paired with an artwork of the author—is now out on Political Concepts! https://t.co/TQLW9gBpvK

A new lexicon entry to read now in Political Concepts! https://t.co/dX4hk3GqcO NECROPOLITICS by Andrés Fabián Henao Castro explores the relationship of necropolitics to 4 main dimension: capitalism, the political, intersectionality, and the corpse.

Political Concepts: Spontaneity | Maya Kronfeld https://t.co/ZM9oL877Ds via @YouTube My whole talk on Spontaneity in Kant, Woolf and Morrison from the wonderful and collaborative Brown Political Concepts conference from the earlier this year @CogutInstitute @BrownUniversity

“#PoliticalConcepts: The Literature Edition” Panelists: March 4, 10 am–12:30 pm • @bonnie_honig (@MCMBrownU, @BrownUPoliSci) — “Performative” • @mayakronfeld1 (@Princeton) — “Spontaneity” • F. Nick Nesbitt (@Princeton) — “Theoreticism” Details: https://t.co/fMt9SrAw8B

“#PoliticalConcepts: The Literature Edition” Panelists: March 4, 2:00 pm – 3:45 pm • @ProfAAnderson1 (@CogutInstitute, English | Brown University) — “Dialogue” • Michael Sawyer (English, @PittTweet) — “Lyricism” Read more: https://t.co/fMt9SrB3Y9 #Humanities

“#PoliticalConcepts: The Literature Edition” Panelists: March 4, 4:00 pm – 5:45 pm • @alexrmoskowitz (@mtholyoke) — “Imperception” • @TBewes (English | Brown University) — “Incoherence” Read more: https://t.co/fMt9SrAw8B #Humanities