Deadline: June 25th. Innovative Media Research and Commercialization center announce open call for its Researcher in Residence Program

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The University of Maine Intermedia MFA program, New Media Department and the Innovative Media Research and Commercialization Center (IMRC) are pleased to announce an open call for its Researcher in Residence program for the spring of 2015. The newly opened IMRC will offer two residencies every academic year, inviting creative researches to work in the center, to foster […]

A Chilean activist said he burned $500 million worth of debt papers

In yesterday’s episode of Democracy Now, Amy Goodman interviewed Francisco “Papas Fritas” Tapia, a Chilean activist who said he burned $500 million worth of debt papers from the private Universidad del Mar, a now student-occupied university that has been collecting student debts despite the fact that it is being shut down because of financial irregularities, […]

“New Materialisms” begins July 1 at Molasses Books

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New Materialisms Pearl Brilmyer Molasses Books, 770 Hart St. in Brooklyn Over the past decade, theory has shifted its focus from problems of language and discourse to questions of the real, the material, and the biological. At the forefront of this turn have been feminist and queer theorists who have argued for an understanding of nature, […]