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Winnie Wong’s “Sub-Authentica”: The Liquidation of Authorship in Science and Pop Music
by Bryce Woodcock
June 8, 2024
The Pursuit of Hereafter
by @badgaltranny
The War Machine Wears a Veil: A Lecture on Martial Aesthetics by Anders Engberg-Pedersen
by Amorette Muzingo
No Answers Yet: Rehearsing the Questions with Denise Ferreira da Silva
by Amorette Muzingo
Carpooling Theory by 2024 MA Cohort
by Maisa Imamović
April 3, 2024
LOOKING AT NOISE, A CONVERSATION WITH BRIAN SPRINGER
by Amy Poncher
May 22, 2023
THE WORLD’S A MESS: The Structuralism of Punk’s Anti-Structural Politics
by Cedric Bobro
In response to Rachel Garfield’s Introduction to “Experimental Filmmaking and Punk: Feminist Audio Visual Culture in the 1970s and 1980s” – Amy, Jackie, Shu, Tabitha
by Amy Poncher
May 19, 2023
On the Concept of the Political in AI-Generated Art
by Lotte Peers
Feminine Failures: The Radical Possibilities of Punk’s Subversion of Gender and Capital
by Cameron Weeks
May 12, 2023
Image Associations: In response to Rachel Garfield’s Introduction to “Experimental Filmmaking and Punk: Feminist Audio Visual Culture in the 1970s and 1980s”
by Amy Poncher
May 7, 2023
The Paint Tube to Warhol: the Valuing of Art in the Mechanical Age
by Claire Bilderback
April 20, 2023
Sonic Resistance: displays of sound in the work of Lawrence Abu Hamdan as read through Shana L. Redmond’s 2020 “Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson”
by Amy Poncher
April 13, 2023
Recalling the Experimental Workshop
by Amy Poncher
January 19, 2023
Gabriel Rockhill and Foucault: Through and Beyond Historicism
by Cedric Bobro
January 8, 2023
The Poetic Mundane in Hale County This Morning, This Evening
by Charlotte Gavin
December 19, 2022
being lively; historical singing
by Shu Xu
Body, Meat, and Censorship: The Art of Dismembering the Idea of a Human
by Sang Chi Liu
May 20, 2022
Back to Future: Cuban Rectification Art and Chinese Avant-Garde in the 80s
by Moham Pangum
May 12, 2022
The Novel as Thought Experiment
by Ryan Mangione Smith
April 7, 2022
The Post-Postmodern Condition
by Kulov
March 24, 2022
Elude Hard
by Sang Chi Liu
December 17, 2021
Documenting AIDS
by Ryan Mangione Smith
November 19, 2021
Theresa Cha: Identification and Disidentification
by Moham Pangum
November 11, 2021
Dictation on the Fringes of “Dictee”
by Arlette Quynh-Anh Tran
Intergalactix: Building a United Federation of Planets… Curatorially
by Kulov
October 25, 2021
The Game of the Real: A Course Syllabus on NFTs as New Media (Proposal)
by Maureen Phelan
May 24, 2021
Drag King Workshop: Queer Anarcha-Feminist Practice
by Allison Smith
May 17, 2021
Nowhere to Fall: Larval Warfare and the GIF Novel
by Jayne Pugh
May 14, 2021
Dolls Against Dominion!: Anarchafeminism and Plurality of the Woman in Relation to Queerness/Transness
by Courtney Loi
DOXA Chronology of Events
by Andrew Culp
April 14, 2021
Object Cemetery: Exhibition Conventions and Covid-19
by Irini Henkin
February 18, 2021
Sentient Flesh: A Mini-Conference with R.A. Judy
by Andrew Culp
January 7, 2021
Theorist in Residence: McKenzie Wark
by Andrew Culp
Terms of Service and Protection
by Maureen Phelan
December 27, 2020
Countervisualizing the Anthropocene
by Ling Tiong
December 23, 2020
CTRL: the Carceral Technologies Reading List
by Maureen Phelan
December 22, 2020
How to Avoid Kettling: Line Dance as Protest
by Allison Smith
December 7, 2020
Tabulating Visuality: Data and the Criminalized Subject
by Irini Henkin
December 4, 2020
Stop LAPD Spying Coalition with Ken Ehrlich at WHAP! Fri, Nov 20th
by Nikki Gamboa
November 20, 2020
“If you are doing nothing wrong, you should have nothing to hide.”
by Courtney Loi
November 19, 2020
WHAP! Series: A&P Alum Linette Warren in conversation with Calvin L. Warren, 11/6
by Nikki Gamboa
October 30, 2020
WHAP! Series: Calvin L. Warren on “Being Blacked Out/Blacking Out Being: Nihilistic Considerations” on 11/6
by Nikki Gamboa
Shallow Aesthetics: (Re)Production and Social Media
by Jayne Pugh
October 23, 2020
Aria Dean Joins WHAP! Series: “Black Out” on 10/23
by Nikki Gamboa
October 20, 2020
WHAP! Series: “Black Out” Showcases Nicholas Mirzoeff (NYU) on 10/23
by Nikki Gamboa
Streamed Event: Recent MA Thesis Presentations
by Aesthetics & Politics
October 1, 2020
Video: To See or Not to See
by Diana Ellen Rivera
May 25, 2020
Streamed Event: China: Theory, Practice, Embodiment, Extension
by Andrew Culp
April 24, 2020
The Sneaker That Got Away: Chasing Identity $$
by Michael Gardner
Locating the Feminine in Male-dominated Social scenes
by Isis Lecaro Catalan
April 16, 2020
On a Chinese Notion of Pleasure, or Not
by Clara Lee
March 10, 2020
Geographies and Temporalities of Pleasure: An Action Poem Prompt
by Perwana Nazif
March 5, 2020
Reading Two Lives (Video Essay)
by Misael Jose Oquendo
February 25, 2020
“Ok !! RANT !” King Lear and the Hermeneutics of Ranting
by Cory Warren
February 24, 2020
Off To The Trauma Factory: Thor, and The Psychological Effects of Content Moderation
by Diana Ellen Rivera
December 20, 2019
Lissssstening to Soul
by Clara Lee
December 17, 2019
Hobnobing with Boots Riley and Sarah T. Roberts Over Arnold Palmers in Temescal
by Carl Schmitz
December 16, 2019
Pettman and Noc: Human and Nonhuman
by Nicholas Nauman
December 13, 2019
Exploring Alternative Politics in the New Millennium
by Jessica Kesselring
November 19, 2019
Metis and Lain
by Elizabeth Jaffari
October 30, 2019
On Colonial Ancestors and Jack Bratich’s “Making, Faking, Abolishing: Necro-Populism, Downsurgency and Wars of Restoration”
by Eloy Neira
May 15, 2019
GRWM: What About Clothes? On Jack Bratich, Fashwave, Hipsters
by Luiza Arefyeva
May 14, 2019
Argentina, The Alt-Right, and The Green Wave
by Lucia Salas
April 24, 2019
Racial Empathy, Entanglement, and Virtual Reality
by Kit Copeland
December 22, 2018
On J. Butler’s Exploration of Mourning through D. Salcedo’s Works of Art
by Eloy Neira
December 15, 2018
Against Robotskin
by Luiza Arefyeva
Beyond the Flicker
by Lucia Salas
December 12, 2018
The Image, The Archive, Animals and The “Human”
by Kit Copeland
December 7, 2018
Keeling on Betrayal and Diversity
by Eloy Neira
December 6, 2018
Soft Science Fiction
by Lucia Salas
November 16, 2018
Ebb and Flow of Parametricism: Urban Space as a Challenge of Design and Infrastructure
by Josh Widera
October 28, 2018
Errant Feminisms: Kara Keeling’s Reading of Two Pop Songs
by Claudia Griggedo
October 20, 2018
Fictions of Justice: The Role of Critique after Legislative Crisis
by Claudia Griggedo
October 17, 2018
Disassembly Required: Afropessimism & The Limits of a Performative Theory of Assembly
by Nathanael Hency
October 6, 2018
Putting Pain on the Map: Ronak Kapadia and the Queer Calculus of Wafaa Bilal
by Josh Widera
October 4, 2018
Launch
by AP Two Year
August 6, 2018