Join us in
September 2025!
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Our inaugural academic year began in September 2022 with a cohort of 26 students that participated in weekly lecture-seminars led by our teaching Ensemble, which were live-streamed across the earth from London’s October Gallery.
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As we head towards our fourth year, NSotA’s experimental curriculum has expanded to include a varied programme of small-group Critical-Creative Seam classes and intensively-supervised research projects addressing the concerns of social and ecological crisis, alongside the possibility of international fieldwork with communities under stress. Our teaching base is now the fully-accessible Art Workers’ Guild in Bloomsbury.
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We are now welcoming applications from people of all ages, experiences and backgrounds, who might wish to join us either in-place or on-line for the next iteration of the NSotA Diploma in Environmental Humanities for the 2025-26 academic year starting in late September. Apply within!
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Full-Fee Scholarships
The New School of the Anthropocene offers free places for its one-year diploma to English-speaking refugees now living in the UK, who've had their current university education interrupted by the wars in Palestine, Sudan, Ukraine, Yemen and elsewhere. This scheme is a collaboration with the Compass Project at Birkbeck College, Counterpoints Arts and Revoke.
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In September 2024 it was extended to care-experienced people over the age of 18, and to those enduring custodial sentences as a consequence of the criminalisation of protests against the climate emergency.
For more details, please write to convenor@nsota.info or enter your details into the Contact page.
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Please note: scholarships are only offered to those who wish to study at NSotA. We do not subsidise wealthy market-state educational bureaucracies!
Art Critique Experiment
The New School of the Anthropocene is an experiment in counter-nihilism. It is a response to the inability and unwillingness of the mainstream university to engage with the condition of social crisis and ecological ruin that characterises the 21st Century. This is our opportunity to chart the new.
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The New School offers a radical alternative to the monetisation, marketisation and banalisation of higher education. We are concerned with the exploration of ideas and the principle of intellectual curiosity, rather than preparing people to reproduce the spectacular economy of the business civilisation.
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Valuing experimentation through mining the critical-creative seam, we have shaped an interdisciplinary ethos and a non-hierarchical gathering of academics and students forged in conviviality and trust: a means of addressing systems collapse and of forging a post-capitalist imaginary. For out of breakdown might come breakthrough.
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Agnes Denes standing amid her 1982 public work, “Wheatfield — A Confrontation,” in NYC. (Photo: John McGrall)
NSotA Statement on the War in Palestine
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NSotA Symposium
Thinking through making, regenerating organism earth
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The NSotA Symposium pairs leading cultural figures from neighbouring fields with the intention of allowing free-ranging conversation, which is loosely tied into the New School's wider educational enquiry.
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Lorna Hackett and Michael Mansfield
Imagining the impossible
Katie Holden and Thrity Vakil
Scales of the human: the macro via the micro
Franc Roddam and Alan Yentob
Education as play and restoring social ambition
Paul Mason and Fintan O'Toole
University as social, not transactional, project
Carolyn Steel and Mark Nelson
Regenerating organism earth
Marina Warner and Rowan Williams
Humane Education and the Democratic Project
'It would be a mistake to believe that the pandemic is a crisis that will end, instead of the perfect warning for what is coming, what I call the new climatic regime. It appears that all the resources of science, humanities and the arts will have to be mobilised once again to shift attention to our shared terrestrial condition.'
Bruno Latour, The Guardian (2021)