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The New School of the Anthropocene is an experiment in counter-nihilism. Since 2022, we’ve offered a radical and affordable alternative to the marketisation, bureaucratisation and banalisation of corporate higher education.
Our concern is with fostering ideas and intellectual curiosity rather than preparing people to reproduce an extractivist civilisation that’s brought us to the point of earth and social systems collapse.
Mining the critical-creative seam, we’ve shaped an interdisciplinary ethos and a gathering of academics, practitioners and students forged in conviviality and trust.
Our curriculum is dedicated to addressing biopolitical emergency, climate justice and the entanglements of a more-than-human assembly through the Arts and Humanities: a means of charting a Post-Anthropocene imaginary.
Over the past four years, NSotA’s curriculum has featured a varied programme of weekly lecture-seminars, which are live-streamed across the earth; online Critical-Creative Seam classes; and intensively-supervised research projects addressing the concerns of social and ecological renewal.
Our teaching base is the fully-accessible Art Workers’ Guild in Bloomsbury and the end of each year is marked by a student art show as part of the London Design Festival. The completion of the course is marked by the award of a Diploma in Environmental Humanities.
For the 2026-27 academic year, NSotA will introduce a revolutionary practice-based research programme, Transdisciplinary Documentary: Poesis of the Anthropocene. This will be a unique fusion of postgraduate-level curriculum and project-based research agency with an ethos refusing distinctions between critical analysis, activism and artistic invention.
The course will be taught on a part-time basis over two years in a hybrid format. Full details will be published here in January 2026, at which point we’ll welcome applications from people of all ages, experiences and backgrounds who wish to join us.
“[The New School] is a very important initiative. It’s shocking to think that for the most part college students today still study the same curricula as their parents, even though they are heading for a completely altered world.”