04/11/2017
Platform this week: The Soviet South, Changing Notions of Belonging, The Temporalities of Racial Capitalism, Rory Rowan on Privatizing Outer Space, Justice after Marx, Frank Stella with Paul Goldberger, Hélène Cixous and Contemporary Directions, The Political Economy of Racial Identity, Ian F. Svenonius Lecture, Feminist Protest Songs, The Past and Future of PS122, Truth and Power in the Trump Era, Three Years Since Crimean Annexation, Nato Thompson and Laura Poitras on Culture as Weapon.
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03/30/2017
Indigenous Rising: Native American Activism in the Era of Standing Rock - Platform for Pedagogy
Images of the burning Standing Rock encampment--set aflame by protesters themselves in anticipation of the final police eviction on February 22--opened a new chapter in the movement against the Dakota Access Pipeline and the struggle for indigenous land and sovereignty. As tribal elders, Water Prote...
03/27/2017
Marcel Broodthaers and the Shell Zeitgeist in Modern Architecture: 1927-1985 - Platform for Pedagogy
The Broodthaers Society of America presents the second of three lectures on the theme of Fiction, Trust, and Surveillance in the work of Marcel Broodthaers. The lecture will take place at the Hauser & Wirth Bookshop and Roth Bar, 548 West 22nd Street, New York.
03/23/2017
Nietzsche 13/13: Jacques Derrida Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Bruno Bosteels, Danielle Cohen-Levinas
Nietzsche 13/13: Jacques Derrida - Platform for Pedagogy
03/22/2017
Creative Writing Lecture: Maggie Nelson - Platform for Pedagogy
Maggie Nelson is the author of nine books of poetry and prose, many of which have become cult classics defying categorization. Her nonfiction titles include the National Book Critics Circle Award winner and New York Times bestseller The Argonauts (Graywolf Press, 2015), The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoni...
02/16/2017
The Future of Digital Rights Is A Library Card - Platform for Pedagogy
As the Internet and its usage continue to shape our lives, there's one place that can turn anxiety around digital privacy into action: public libraries.
02/13/2017
Post Human, Affect, Proliferation - Platform for Pedagogy
Part of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics' Mobility in Post Democracy series, this event focuses on "Proliferation" as a feature of contemporary social and political interaction that the digital sphere facilitates. Early sociologists like Gabriel Tarde and Emile Durkheim were interested in c...
02/10/2017
This Week on Platform: Architecture and Technology, The EU at 60, Post Human, Affect, Proliferation; The Contest for Post-Soviet Eurasia, Dancing the Cold War, Reinhold Martin with Andreas Huyssen, Burning Issues in African Philosophy, When Ivory Towers Were Black.
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02/03/2017
Who Builds Your Architecture? - Platform for Pedagogy
Who Builds Your Architecture? (WBYA?) is a coalition of architects, activists, scholars, and educators that tackles the pressing question: who builds your architecture? to examine the links between labor, architecture and the global networks that form around building buildings. As major architectura...
01/31/2017
Yves Sintomer, The Meanings of Political Representation: Uses and Misuses of a Notion - Platform for Pedagogy
In order to better understand the world-wide crisis of political representation, a conceptual analysis of the concept is important. Stepping back from the “deceptive familiarity of words”, and resisting the temptation to define the essence of representation, the talk takes the conceptual history int...
01/24/2017
A Night of Philosophy and Ideas: Frédéric Lordon, Peter Frase, Marc Augé - Platform for Pedagogy
Co-presented by the French Embassy and the Brooklyn Public Library, A Night of Philosophy and Ideas returns to New York this winter after a year-long hiatus with an an all-night marathon of philosophical debate, original performances, art installations, screenings, readings, and music at the Brookly...
01/09/2017
Adam Pendleton, Just Back From Los Angeles: A Portrait Of Yvonne Rainer - Platform for Pedagogy
JUST BACK FROM LOS ANGELES is the third in a series of portraits by artist Adam Pendleton. The video poetically captures the choreographer, filmmaker, and writer Yvonne Rainer in conversation with Pendleton at an indistinct diner in NYC’s Chelsea neighborhood. Rainer and Pendleton, through a scripte...