What are possibilities for sustainable, radical, and alternative lives in future worlds?
Whilst corporations and the non-profit industrial complex monopolise imaginaries of possible and acceptable options for work and action, distorting visions and possibilities for imagining and enacting common and healthy futures, this series of explorations will examine how alternative paths for making a living and a life may open up through the meeting point of activism, organizing and the academy.
Bringing together activists and scholar-activists from around the city and beyond, we invite students and the New School community to join us for a two-day convening April 12th and 19th to an exchange on these issues: What is the relation of the academy to activism? to organizing? What are the problems and possibilities in that relationship, and how must the university change? How can academics imagine and make a future as/out of activists or organizers? What stands in the way? What kinds of work or modes of organizing work are imaginable or useful and what is the role of knowledge production? What is the role of the non-profit sector? is it always a part of the non-profit industrial complex? What are the opportunities/pathways and dangers for making future lives in activism/social change for majors in the social sciences and humanities?