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Our Programmer Morgane Billuart will present extracts of her new book, The Heat of Others, at Sybil .gg , Berlin, on Ju...
06/11/2026

Our Programmer Morgane Billuart will present extracts of her new book, The Heat of Others, at Sybil .gg , Berlin, on June 18 at 8 PM.

The Heat of Others follows Max, a young researcher who travels to Svalbard, Norway, to speak at a conference on the ethics of mind enhancement. There she encounters a high-tech experimental building powered by "Dual Resolve," a system that harvests human body heat. As the conference unfolds, the warmth of bodies and the pressure of ideas begin to blur, pulling Max into a state of growing uncertainty where thought and sensation are no longer discernible.

The evening will include a reading by Billuart, accompanied by a prologue and a soundscape by Meii Soh . Physical copies of The Heat of Others, published by Set Margins, will be available for purchase at the event.

18.06.2026 — 20:00 at SYBIL
Leuschnerdamm 13 / Aufgang 3 / EG
10999 Berlin

To learn more about the book, please visit the link in our bio.

We are offering one full and one partial Scholarship for our upcoming Seminar, “African Philosophy in the 20th Century: ...
06/10/2026

We are offering one full and one partial Scholarship for our upcoming Seminar, “African Philosophy in the 20th Century: Historical Materialism or Ethnophilosophy?,” by our Instructor Zeyad El Nabolsy and starting on June 19.

This Seminar revisits a founding debate in African philosophy as an academic field: whether historical materialism or ethnophilosophy offers the more adequate theoretical orientation for emancipatory politics on the African continent. At the center of the Seminar is the work of Beninois philosopher Paulin J. Hountondji, whose critiques of ethnophilosophy, developed across African Philosophy: Myth and Reality (1983 [1976]) and The Struggle for Meaning (2002 [1998]), argue that certain approaches to African philosophy risk impeding development through mystification. Participants will reconstruct and critically assess Hountondji’s arguments alongside his positive account of philosophy’s role in development and political movements, asking what this debate means for emancipatory thought in Africa today.

Session 1: The Origins of the Debate
Session 2: The Critique of Ethnophilosophy
Session 3: Nkrumah and the Shadow of Ethnophilosophy
Session 4: The Place of Marxism in African Philosophy

DEADLINE: June 18 at 23:59 ET.
To apply, send a 250-word letter to [email protected] explaining your background and your need for financial relief.
The New Centre Members will be given priority for the full Scholarship.

To learn more about this Seminar, please visit the link in our Bio.

IMAGE: Wosene Worke Kosrof, Woman of the Nile, 1998

06/09/2026

In this video, our Instructor Joel White introduces his upcoming Seminar, "Aether, Field, Manifold: Transcendental Aesthetic," beginning June 14 at The New Centre.

The Seminar takes Kant's "Transcendental Aesthetic" as its point of departure, tracing how successive revolutions in physical theory have displaced the Newtonian framework that quietly underwrites his account of space and time as fixed, homogeneous a priori forms of intuition. From Faraday's field concept to Einstein's relativistic spacetime to quantum field theory, what once appeared as empty formal containers for experience have become plastic, relational structures whose geometry depends on energetic and material configurations.

Across four sessions, Participants move from the early modern aether as a medium of forces through Maxwell's equations and Einstein's fusion of spacetime and field, toward the radical ontology of quantum fields. The guiding question running through the course is whether a transcendental aesthetic adequate to a world of relational, energetic fields can be articulated at all.

To learn more about this Seminar, please visit the link in our Bio.

Our Full Enroll Student Héctor Almeida is organizing the Q***r Communist Game Jam ***rcomgames , an online jam taking p...
06/08/2026

Our Full Enroll Student Héctor Almeida is organizing the Q***r Communist Game Jam ***rcomgames , an online jam taking place on itch.io from August 1 to August 31, 2026. Created from Cuba, the open call welcomes q***r, leftist, anti-capitalist, and experimental game makers working across games, prototypes, interactive stories, digital experiments, and any playful form around q***r communist ideas and collective futures.

The project grew in part from Conrad Hamilton's Seminar "Video Games: Between Contagion and Reality" at The New Centre. Running independently and without institutional funding, the jam aims to build a community and archive for q***r and leftist game-making.

To learn more and participate, please visit the link in our Bio or Story.

IMAGE: Undertale (Toby Fox, 2015)

This week on &&& Triple Ampersand, we are publishing ”How Decoloniality & Identity PoliticsFailed Me Completely“ by Bij...
06/07/2026

This week on &&& Triple Ampersand, we are publishing ”How Decoloniality & Identity PoliticsFailed Me Completely“ by Bijan Moosavi .

Writing as an Iranian artist and refugee living in the UK, Moosavi traces a decade of encounters with Western art institutions around his 2020 film Disco Islam, a sci-fi corporate video examining neoliberal dynamics and the commodification of resistance culture in Iran. The film was repeatedly turned away from festivals, platforms, and prize shortlists, each time under the logic that engaging with its critiques might prove too ”divisive“ or jeopardize institutional relationships.

His argument is not that these institutions are overtly hostile, but that decoloniality in practice has developed a selective logic: it amplifies voices from the margins that confirm the theory’s own authority, while quietly displacing those that expose its contradictions or resist its frameworks. The result is an apparatus that presents itself as liberatory while reproducing the same mechanisms of gatekeeping it claims to oppose.

To read the full text, please visit the link in our stories or bio.

IMAGE: Bijan Moosavi, Disco Islam, 2020

We are offering one full and one partial Scholarship for our upcoming Seminar, "Aether, Field, Manifold: Transcendental ...
06/05/2026

We are offering one full and one partial Scholarship for our upcoming Seminar, "Aether, Field, Manifold: Transcendental Aesthetic" taught by our Instructor Joel White and starting on June 14.

This Seminar traces the displacement of Kant's Transcendental Aesthetic by the successive scientific developments of field theory, from Faraday's lines of force and Maxwell's electromagnetic equations to Einstein's relativistic spacetime and quantum field theory. Where Kant posited space and time as fixed a priori forms of intuition adequate to a Newtonian framework, field physics gradually dissolved that stability: the manifold of spacetime is no longer an empty formal container but a dynamic medium whose geometry is shaped by material and energetic configurations. The course asks what a transcendental aesthetic adequate to this post-Newtonian world might look like, one in which the fundamental entities are not substances located in space and time, but relational, energetic fields whose structure determines the very geometry of their own manifold.

Session 1: From Substance to Medium: The Aetherial Cosmos
Session 2: Electricity, Magnetism, and the Birth of Field Thinking
Session 3: Maxwell's Equations and the Ontology of Energy
Session 4: Relativity and the Dissolution of the Aether

The deadline for applying is June 11 at 23:59 ET. To apply, send a 250-word letter to [email protected] explaining your background and your need for financial relief. The New Centre Members will be given priority for the full Scholarship.

To learn more about this Seminar and enroll, please visit the link in our stories.

IMAGE: Pierre Huyghe, De-Extinction, 2014

06/04/2026

During the opening days of this year's Venice Biennale of art, the &&& Team spoke with curators, artists, and workers involve in the production of various pavilions and other exhibitions. In this excerpt from our first published HYPER ANNOTATIONS 5.0 conversation, Leila Kaarina Barber speaks with Beya Gille Gacha , artist and curator of the Cameroon Pavilion.

The New Centre for Research & Practice presented HYPER ANNOTATIONS 5.0 at this year's Venice Biennale, featuring conversations with artists, curators, and art professionals from several pavilions during the exhibition's opening days, engaging with the themes, questions, and curatorial arguments of the 61st International Art Exhibition, In "Minor Keys", curated by the late Cameroonian curator Koyo Kouoh.

Starting today, a selection of the interviews will be posted on The New Centre's social media channels and archived for future reference.

To watch the full conversation, please visit the link in our stories or bio.

We are offering one full and one partial Scholarship for our upcoming Workshop "The Void Writes," taught by Angelos Evan...
06/03/2026

We are offering one full and one partial Scholarship for our upcoming Workshop "The Void Writes," taught by Angelos Evangelidis and starting on June 14.

This Workshop examines how writing is engendered by the void, and writing as the site where the void unfolds even if unfolding is its only doing. Drawing on literature and philosophy, it asks what happens when form is not assumed to impose upon nothingness but to arise from, and through, it. The Workshop moves from a close reading of Primo Levi's If This Is a Man and the concept of the crushed narrative, through Ovid's Metamorphoses, where chaos becomes the driving force of transformation, to Kafka's "The Burrow" and Bernhard's Correction, which together raise the possibility of creation through correction—a generative force that remains destructive.

DEADLINE: June 11 at 23:59 ET.
To apply, send a 250-word letter to [email protected] explaining your background and your need for financial relief. The New Centre Members will be given priority for the full Scholarship.

To learn more about this Workshop and enroll, please visit the link in our Bio.

IMAGE: Graham Gillmore, Untitled (Glossary 2002), 2002

06/02/2026

In this video, our Instructor Jack Segbars introduces his upcoming Roundtable, "Art & Theory Industrial Complex: Capital, Institutions, Language and the Production of Value," beginning June 11 at The New Centre.

This Roundtable begins from a critical stance toward the tightening co-dependence between art and theory within the institutional and economic structures of contemporary cultural production. Rather than affirming this relationship as an inevitable or progressive development, it interrogates the mechanisms through which theory and art have become mutually instrumentalized within shared circuits of validation, value, and visibility.

To learn more about this Roundtable and enroll, please visit the link in our Bio.

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