The latest installment of our newer truer history of The New School is up on Public Seminar - one of mine. The prehistory of the school I teach at, it brings together questions and discoveries of many years trying to figure this place out. I'd originally entitled it Experimental Colleges: The New School's Long Road to a Four-Year College, but the PS editors bumped my subtitle to title and added a slightly more boosterish subtitle of their own, 100 years in, the New School's experimental ethos lives on. That sounds rather more coherent and consistent than the story warrants! No matter, anyone who actually reads the piece will discover that the prehistory of our 4-year college is full not only of cool ideas but also of false starts and abandoned experiments.Thursday, September 12, 2019
Anabolism!
The latest installment of our newer truer history of The New School is up on Public Seminar - one of mine. The prehistory of the school I teach at, it brings together questions and discoveries of many years trying to figure this place out. I'd originally entitled it Experimental Colleges: The New School's Long Road to a Four-Year College, but the PS editors bumped my subtitle to title and added a slightly more boosterish subtitle of their own, 100 years in, the New School's experimental ethos lives on. That sounds rather more coherent and consistent than the story warrants! No matter, anyone who actually reads the piece will discover that the prehistory of our 4-year college is full not only of cool ideas but also of false starts and abandoned experiments.