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Book Talk with C. Thi Nguyen | The Score

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Book Talk with C. Thi Nguyen | The Score

Please join us for a discussion of C. Thi Nguyen’s The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else’s Game (Penguin 2026). Likes. Friend counts. Spotify Wrapped stats. As tech suffuses our lives, […]

Book Talk with Dominic Pettman | Ghosting: On Disappearance

Join us for an engaging evening of personal narratives and critical conversation as New School students share their experiences with ghosting — that modern phenomenon of abrupt disappearance in relationships, […]

The Social Ontology of AI

While typical AI user interfaces are designed to facilitate the illusion of a person-to-person interaction, the user is, of course, engaging with a vast ‘social’ network distributed across human, non-biological […]

Iconoclasm in the Age of AI

The internet (and AI) have made us acutely aware of the power of images, and how it can come to seem reasonable to want to destroy these images as a […]

Limits of Intelligence: Meaning and Value

Modern knowledge-societies value intelligence as a set of problem-solving capacities. In recent years, we have entered a technology summer which draws on accelerated progress in AI research and the large-scale […]

Adam Phillips | On Getting The Life You Want: Psychoanalysis With Pragmatism

British psychoanalyst Adam Phillips aims to show the compatibility of psychoanalysis and American pragmatism. Pragmatism without psychoanalysis can seem naive, psychoanalysis without pragmatism can seem unduly coercive and essentialist. Adam Phillips […]

The Vibes Are Off

“There’s no arguing about art” is manifestly false. Art is one of the best things to argue about. The question is why. In this public philosophy debate, Nick Riggle (University […]

Robert Pippin discusses Bresson’s Pickpocket (screening + discussion)

The Philosophy Film Club and Liberal Studies present a screening of Robert Bresson’s Pickpocket (1959) and discussion led by Robert Pippin (U Chicago). Generally considered one of Bresson’s greatest works, Pickpocket tells […]

Mind-Dependent Artifacts: Artifact-Dependent Minds

Artifacts are a primary object of study in the humanities. They are products and, thus, manifestations of human thought, action, and self-determination without which they cannot be understood. At the […]

AI: The Act of Interpretation

Practices of interpretation are central to both the humanities and social sciences, whose typical objects of interpretive activity range from artworks, texts and musical scores to rituals, economic behaviour and […]

Filmed Thought: A one day symposium on Robert Pippin on film

Symposium Overview Over the past ten years, Robert Pippin has published a series of books on film that combine detailed readings of specific films and filmmakers with broader reflections on […]

ONLINE | Archive-Based Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Lockdown

For many of us, the past year has involved a turn inward, to our memories of a pre-pandemic past and whatever documents we have of that past. In this online […]

Objectivity in the Humanities

This seminar will revisit our paradigms concerning objectivity in the humanities. To many, it seems as if the humanities provide us at best with less-than-objective knowledge claims. Arguably, there are […]

Artificial Intelligence and the Human

This series of six lectures looks at the successes, as well as the failures, in the search of artificial intelligence and uses them as a window into the larger question […]

Book Talk with Dominic Pettman | Ghosting: On Disappearance

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Book Talk with C. Thi Nguyen | The Score

Book Talk with Dominic Pettman | Ghosting: On Disappearance

The Social Ontology of AI

Iconoclasm in the Age of AI

The internet (and AI) have made us acutely aware of the power of images, and how it can come to seem reasonable to want to destroy these images as a […]

Limits of Intelligence: Meaning and Value

Adam Phillips | On Getting The Life You Want: Psychoanalysis With Pragmatism

The Vibes Are Off

“There’s no arguing about art” is manifestly false. Art is one of the best things to argue about. The question is why. In this public philosophy debate, Nick Riggle (University […]

Robert Pippin discusses Bresson’s Pickpocket (screening + discussion)

Mind-Dependent Artifacts: Artifact-Dependent Minds

AI: The Act of Interpretation

Filmed Thought: A one day symposium on Robert Pippin on film

Symposium Overview Over the past ten years, Robert Pippin has published a series of books on film that combine detailed readings of specific films and filmmakers with broader reflections on […]

ONLINE | Archive-Based Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Lockdown

For many of us, the past year has involved a turn inward, to our memories of a pre-pandemic past and whatever documents we have of that past. In this online […]

Objectivity in the Humanities

Artificial Intelligence and the Human

This series of six lectures looks at the successes, as well as the failures, in the search of artificial intelligence and uses them as a window into the larger question […]

The Social Ontology of AI

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Book Talk with C. Thi Nguyen | The Score

Book Talk with Dominic Pettman | Ghosting: On Disappearance

The Social Ontology of AI

Iconoclasm in the Age of AI

The internet (and AI) have made us acutely aware of the power of images, and how it can come to seem reasonable to want to destroy these images as a […]

Limits of Intelligence: Meaning and Value

Adam Phillips | On Getting The Life You Want: Psychoanalysis With Pragmatism

The Vibes Are Off

“There’s no arguing about art” is manifestly false. Art is one of the best things to argue about. The question is why. In this public philosophy debate, Nick Riggle (University […]

Robert Pippin discusses Bresson’s Pickpocket (screening + discussion)

Mind-Dependent Artifacts: Artifact-Dependent Minds

AI: The Act of Interpretation

Filmed Thought: A one day symposium on Robert Pippin on film

Symposium Overview Over the past ten years, Robert Pippin has published a series of books on film that combine detailed readings of specific films and filmmakers with broader reflections on […]

ONLINE | Archive-Based Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Lockdown

For many of us, the past year has involved a turn inward, to our memories of a pre-pandemic past and whatever documents we have of that past. In this online […]

Objectivity in the Humanities

Artificial Intelligence and the Human

This series of six lectures looks at the successes, as well as the failures, in the search of artificial intelligence and uses them as a window into the larger question […]

Iconoclasm in the Age of AI

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Book Talk with C. Thi Nguyen | The Score

Book Talk with Dominic Pettman | Ghosting: On Disappearance

The Social Ontology of AI

Iconoclasm in the Age of AI

The internet (and AI) have made us acutely aware of the power of images, and how it can come to seem reasonable to want to destroy these images as a […]

Limits of Intelligence: Meaning and Value

Adam Phillips | On Getting The Life You Want: Psychoanalysis With Pragmatism

The Vibes Are Off

“There’s no arguing about art” is manifestly false. Art is one of the best things to argue about. The question is why. In this public philosophy debate, Nick Riggle (University […]

Robert Pippin discusses Bresson’s Pickpocket (screening + discussion)

Mind-Dependent Artifacts: Artifact-Dependent Minds

AI: The Act of Interpretation

Filmed Thought: A one day symposium on Robert Pippin on film

Symposium Overview Over the past ten years, Robert Pippin has published a series of books on film that combine detailed readings of specific films and filmmakers with broader reflections on […]

ONLINE | Archive-Based Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Lockdown

For many of us, the past year has involved a turn inward, to our memories of a pre-pandemic past and whatever documents we have of that past. In this online […]

Objectivity in the Humanities

Artificial Intelligence and the Human

This series of six lectures looks at the successes, as well as the failures, in the search of artificial intelligence and uses them as a window into the larger question […]

Limits of Intelligence: Meaning and Value

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Book Talk with C. Thi Nguyen | The Score

Book Talk with Dominic Pettman | Ghosting: On Disappearance

The Social Ontology of AI

Iconoclasm in the Age of AI

The internet (and AI) have made us acutely aware of the power of images, and how it can come to seem reasonable to want to destroy these images as a […]

Limits of Intelligence: Meaning and Value

Adam Phillips | On Getting The Life You Want: Psychoanalysis With Pragmatism

The Vibes Are Off

“There’s no arguing about art” is manifestly false. Art is one of the best things to argue about. The question is why. In this public philosophy debate, Nick Riggle (University […]

Robert Pippin discusses Bresson’s Pickpocket (screening + discussion)

Mind-Dependent Artifacts: Artifact-Dependent Minds

AI: The Act of Interpretation

Filmed Thought: A one day symposium on Robert Pippin on film

Symposium Overview Over the past ten years, Robert Pippin has published a series of books on film that combine detailed readings of specific films and filmmakers with broader reflections on […]

ONLINE | Archive-Based Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Lockdown

For many of us, the past year has involved a turn inward, to our memories of a pre-pandemic past and whatever documents we have of that past. In this online […]

Objectivity in the Humanities

Artificial Intelligence and the Human

This series of six lectures looks at the successes, as well as the failures, in the search of artificial intelligence and uses them as a window into the larger question […]

Adam Phillips | On Getting The Life You Want: Psychoanalysis With Pragmatism

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Book Talk with C. Thi Nguyen | The Score

Book Talk with Dominic Pettman | Ghosting: On Disappearance

The Social Ontology of AI

Iconoclasm in the Age of AI

The internet (and AI) have made us acutely aware of the power of images, and how it can come to seem reasonable to want to destroy these images as a […]

Limits of Intelligence: Meaning and Value

Adam Phillips | On Getting The Life You Want: Psychoanalysis With Pragmatism

The Vibes Are Off

“There’s no arguing about art” is manifestly false. Art is one of the best things to argue about. The question is why. In this public philosophy debate, Nick Riggle (University […]

Robert Pippin discusses Bresson’s Pickpocket (screening + discussion)

Mind-Dependent Artifacts: Artifact-Dependent Minds

AI: The Act of Interpretation

Filmed Thought: A one day symposium on Robert Pippin on film

Symposium Overview Over the past ten years, Robert Pippin has published a series of books on film that combine detailed readings of specific films and filmmakers with broader reflections on […]

ONLINE | Archive-Based Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Lockdown

For many of us, the past year has involved a turn inward, to our memories of a pre-pandemic past and whatever documents we have of that past. In this online […]

Objectivity in the Humanities

Artificial Intelligence and the Human

This series of six lectures looks at the successes, as well as the failures, in the search of artificial intelligence and uses them as a window into the larger question […]

The Vibes Are Off

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Book Talk with C. Thi Nguyen | The Score

Book Talk with Dominic Pettman | Ghosting: On Disappearance

The Social Ontology of AI

Iconoclasm in the Age of AI

The internet (and AI) have made us acutely aware of the power of images, and how it can come to seem reasonable to want to destroy these images as a […]

Limits of Intelligence: Meaning and Value

Adam Phillips | On Getting The Life You Want: Psychoanalysis With Pragmatism

The Vibes Are Off

“There’s no arguing about art” is manifestly false. Art is one of the best things to argue about. The question is why. In this public philosophy debate, Nick Riggle (University […]

Robert Pippin discusses Bresson’s Pickpocket (screening + discussion)

Mind-Dependent Artifacts: Artifact-Dependent Minds

AI: The Act of Interpretation

Filmed Thought: A one day symposium on Robert Pippin on film

Symposium Overview Over the past ten years, Robert Pippin has published a series of books on film that combine detailed readings of specific films and filmmakers with broader reflections on […]

ONLINE | Archive-Based Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Lockdown

For many of us, the past year has involved a turn inward, to our memories of a pre-pandemic past and whatever documents we have of that past. In this online […]

Objectivity in the Humanities

Artificial Intelligence and the Human

This series of six lectures looks at the successes, as well as the failures, in the search of artificial intelligence and uses them as a window into the larger question […]

Robert Pippin discusses Bresson’s Pickpocket (screening + discussion)

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Book Talk with C. Thi Nguyen | The Score

Book Talk with Dominic Pettman | Ghosting: On Disappearance

The Social Ontology of AI

Iconoclasm in the Age of AI

The internet (and AI) have made us acutely aware of the power of images, and how it can come to seem reasonable to want to destroy these images as a […]

Limits of Intelligence: Meaning and Value

Adam Phillips | On Getting The Life You Want: Psychoanalysis With Pragmatism

The Vibes Are Off

“There’s no arguing about art” is manifestly false. Art is one of the best things to argue about. The question is why. In this public philosophy debate, Nick Riggle (University […]

Robert Pippin discusses Bresson’s Pickpocket (screening + discussion)

Mind-Dependent Artifacts: Artifact-Dependent Minds

AI: The Act of Interpretation

Filmed Thought: A one day symposium on Robert Pippin on film

Symposium Overview Over the past ten years, Robert Pippin has published a series of books on film that combine detailed readings of specific films and filmmakers with broader reflections on […]

ONLINE | Archive-Based Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Lockdown

For many of us, the past year has involved a turn inward, to our memories of a pre-pandemic past and whatever documents we have of that past. In this online […]

Objectivity in the Humanities

Artificial Intelligence and the Human

This series of six lectures looks at the successes, as well as the failures, in the search of artificial intelligence and uses them as a window into the larger question […]

Mind-Dependent Artifacts: Artifact-Dependent Minds

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Book Talk with C. Thi Nguyen | The Score

Book Talk with Dominic Pettman | Ghosting: On Disappearance

The Social Ontology of AI

Iconoclasm in the Age of AI

The internet (and AI) have made us acutely aware of the power of images, and how it can come to seem reasonable to want to destroy these images as a […]

Limits of Intelligence: Meaning and Value

Adam Phillips | On Getting The Life You Want: Psychoanalysis With Pragmatism

The Vibes Are Off

“There’s no arguing about art” is manifestly false. Art is one of the best things to argue about. The question is why. In this public philosophy debate, Nick Riggle (University […]

Robert Pippin discusses Bresson’s Pickpocket (screening + discussion)

Mind-Dependent Artifacts: Artifact-Dependent Minds

AI: The Act of Interpretation

Filmed Thought: A one day symposium on Robert Pippin on film

Symposium Overview Over the past ten years, Robert Pippin has published a series of books on film that combine detailed readings of specific films and filmmakers with broader reflections on […]

ONLINE | Archive-Based Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Lockdown

For many of us, the past year has involved a turn inward, to our memories of a pre-pandemic past and whatever documents we have of that past. In this online […]

Objectivity in the Humanities

Artificial Intelligence and the Human

This series of six lectures looks at the successes, as well as the failures, in the search of artificial intelligence and uses them as a window into the larger question […]

AI: The Act of Interpretation

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