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New School of the Anthropocene
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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!

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32 million tons of C02 have been unleashed by the IDF through its barbarism in Gaza.

Genocide augmented by biocide.
November 16, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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!
November 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Neoliberal academic integrity in the news.
November 8, 2025 at 11:51 AM
November 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
November 5, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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...
November 2, 2025 at 1:08 PM
October 29, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Mid Autumn. Peacock butterflies have stopped flying.
October 29, 2025 at 12:47 PM
October 29, 2025 at 12:43 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
October 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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...
October 23, 2025 at 11:07 AM
'It is forbidden to forbid!'
October 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The carnivalesque spirit alive at well at today's protests.

NO KINGS here in the UK, either!
October 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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
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...
October 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
5th October. Rutting red dear use antlers in the competition for hinds.
October 6, 2025 at 8:28 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...

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October 5, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Early October: field mushrooms in fairy rings appear upon lawns and by scrub.

www.mushroom-appreciation.com/wp-content/u...
October 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM
The resistance of Cable Street took place 89 years ago today. The fascists did not pass.

jscn.org.uk/wp-content/u...
October 4, 2025 at 10:24 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!
October 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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!
September 28, 2025 at 11:14 AM
September 25, 2025 at 11:03 AM
September 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Another step is taken towards the civilisational nadir.
September 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
September 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM