New School of the Anthropocene
@nsota.bsky.social
Founded in 2022. Addressing biopolitical emergency & climate justice through art-critique-experiment. Building a new society in the shell of the old.
Join us at the Art Workers' Guild in London or across seven continents online!
www.nsota.org
Join us at the Art Workers' Guild in London or across seven continents online!
www.nsota.org
32 million tons of C02 have been unleashed by the IDF through its barbarism in Gaza.
Genocide augmented by biocide.
Genocide augmented by biocide.
November 16, 2025 at 1:55 PM
32 million tons of C02 have been unleashed by the IDF through its barbarism in Gaza.
Genocide augmented by biocide.
Genocide augmented by biocide.
A unwinding rumination last Friday from Jesse Darling on how we might engage with the end of the capitalist story & its zombie substrate of junk.
Feral erudition! Many thanks, Jesse. Come back!
Feral erudition! Many thanks, Jesse. Come back!
November 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM
A unwinding rumination last Friday from Jesse Darling on how we might engage with the end of the capitalist story & its zombie substrate of junk.
Feral erudition! Many thanks, Jesse. Come back!
Feral erudition! Many thanks, Jesse. Come back!
Neoliberal academic integrity in the news.
November 8, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Neoliberal academic integrity in the news.
History demonstrates that vulgar & contemptuous displays of wealth on the part of a monarch & his retinue in front of impecunious subjects has one inevitable outcome.
It may take time. But it's coming.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
It may take time. But it's coming.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
November 2, 2025 at 1:08 PM
History demonstrates that vulgar & contemptuous displays of wealth on the part of a monarch & his retinue in front of impecunious subjects has one inevitable outcome.
It may take time. But it's coming.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
It may take time. But it's coming.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Mid Autumn. Peacock butterflies have stopped flying.
October 29, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Mid Autumn. Peacock butterflies have stopped flying.
A most enlivening seminar yesterday from Future Observatory's Justin McGuirk meshing questions of material & resource to those of cross-species care & policy-making.
Several doors to a sane ecological design future swung open: a thousand thanks, Justin!
futureobservatory.org
Several doors to a sane ecological design future swung open: a thousand thanks, Justin!
futureobservatory.org
October 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
A most enlivening seminar yesterday from Future Observatory's Justin McGuirk meshing questions of material & resource to those of cross-species care & policy-making.
Several doors to a sane ecological design future swung open: a thousand thanks, Justin!
futureobservatory.org
Several doors to a sane ecological design future swung open: a thousand thanks, Justin!
futureobservatory.org
NSotA student Emma Harrison's research project has been published by Germinate, the Environmental History Review.
Bravo, dear Emma: a dazzling piece!
g-ehr.com/essay/bounda...
Bravo, dear Emma: a dazzling piece!
g-ehr.com/essay/bounda...
October 23, 2025 at 11:07 AM
NSotA student Emma Harrison's research project has been published by Germinate, the Environmental History Review.
Bravo, dear Emma: a dazzling piece!
g-ehr.com/essay/bounda...
Bravo, dear Emma: a dazzling piece!
g-ehr.com/essay/bounda...
'It is forbidden to forbid!'
October 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
'It is forbidden to forbid!'
The carnivalesque spirit alive at well at today's protests.
NO KINGS here in the UK, either!
NO KINGS here in the UK, either!
October 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
The carnivalesque spirit alive at well at today's protests.
NO KINGS here in the UK, either!
NO KINGS here in the UK, either!
A wonderfully energetic & expansive Anthropocene seminar from Josephine Burton yesterday on 20 years of Dash Theatre: a paradigm of internationalist collaborative community & the stage without walls. Thank you, dear Josephine!
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October 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
A wonderfully energetic & expansive Anthropocene seminar from Josephine Burton yesterday on 20 years of Dash Theatre: a paradigm of internationalist collaborative community & the stage without walls. Thank you, dear Josephine!
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With grateful thanks for the life of the Nobel scientist, Sir John Gurdon: a man of immeasurable kindness & humility as well as a visionary biologist.
www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...
www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...
October 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
With grateful thanks for the life of the Nobel scientist, Sir John Gurdon: a man of immeasurable kindness & humility as well as a visionary biologist.
www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...
www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...
5th October. Rutting red dear use antlers in the competition for hinds.
October 6, 2025 at 8:28 AM
5th October. Rutting red dear use antlers in the competition for hinds.
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the first broadcast of the BBC Arena film essay: the most innovative, adventurous & influential TV arts & culture strand in the English-speaking world, with 700 incomparable works.
learningonscreen.ac.uk/viewfinder/a...
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learningonscreen.ac.uk/viewfinder/a...
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October 5, 2025 at 11:12 AM
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the first broadcast of the BBC Arena film essay: the most innovative, adventurous & influential TV arts & culture strand in the English-speaking world, with 700 incomparable works.
learningonscreen.ac.uk/viewfinder/a...
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en...
learningonscreen.ac.uk/viewfinder/a...
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en...
Early October: field mushrooms in fairy rings appear upon lawns and by scrub.
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October 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Early October: field mushrooms in fairy rings appear upon lawns and by scrub.
www.mushroom-appreciation.com/wp-content/u...
www.mushroom-appreciation.com/wp-content/u...
The resistance of Cable Street took place 89 years ago today. The fascists did not pass.
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October 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The resistance of Cable Street took place 89 years ago today. The fascists did not pass.
jscn.org.uk/wp-content/u...
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An enthralling Anthropocene seminar today led by Dr Mark Nelson of the Institute of Ecotechnics on Biosphere 2: a spectacular & innovative experiment in closed-system dynamics; an exercise in humility; & an applied lesson in consciousness, care & beauty.
We were dazzled. Thank you, dear Mark!
We were dazzled. Thank you, dear Mark!
October 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM
An enthralling Anthropocene seminar today led by Dr Mark Nelson of the Institute of Ecotechnics on Biosphere 2: a spectacular & innovative experiment in closed-system dynamics; an exercise in humility; & an applied lesson in consciousness, care & beauty.
We were dazzled. Thank you, dear Mark!
We were dazzled. Thank you, dear Mark!
A blistering seminar to open the new academic year led by Prof. Pablo Mukherjee on Wells' War of the Worlds - on the violence unleashed at historical points of energy transition; on instrumentalism vs joy - an ecocritical model of its kind.
An honour to have this brilliant man within our Ensemble!
An honour to have this brilliant man within our Ensemble!
September 28, 2025 at 11:14 AM
A blistering seminar to open the new academic year led by Prof. Pablo Mukherjee on Wells' War of the Worlds - on the violence unleashed at historical points of energy transition; on instrumentalism vs joy - an ecocritical model of its kind.
An honour to have this brilliant man within our Ensemble!
An honour to have this brilliant man within our Ensemble!
Another step is taken towards the civilisational nadir.
September 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Another step is taken towards the civilisational nadir.
